The Supervisory Board of GAF AG, an e-GEOS S.p.A. (a 80/20% joint venture between Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency) company located in Munich and Neustrelitz, Germany – embedded in the Space Alliance of European high-tech leaders Leonardo S.p.A. and Thales S.A., appointed Mr Philippe Moreels as new Managing Director (Vorstand) of GAF AG. In this position, he succeeds Dr. Gernot Ramminger.
As part of the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), GAF AG, an e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI) company, has been awarded a multi-year framework contract for the automated analysis of satellite data for the monitoring of all agricultural areas in the German federal state of Bavaria.
As part of the Suriname Competitiveness and Sector Diversification (SCSD) Programme being run by the World Bank, GAF AG, an e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI) company, has been awarded the lead role in two consultancy contracts, with these being "International mining specialist to support the establishment and commissioning of the Minerals Institute of Suriname.
The Airbus-led consortium with GAF, selected by the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), has started acquiring data to provide the Copernicus Earth Observation Programme with very high-resolution (VHR) satellite-based image coverage of Europe for 2021.
GAF AG, together with e-GEOS, has been awarded a Framework Contract by the European Union Satellite Centre for the provision of satellite-based digital elevation models to support the validation of innovative geospatial tools for SatCen’s exploitation activities