New Geoinformation Guide (only in Polish) concerns digital elevation and surface models which are openly accessible for Poland.

In today's entry from the "Geoinformation Guide" series, we present the Copernicus Open Access Hub browser designed to download free and open satellite images from the Sentinel mission.

In today's article from the "Geoinformation Guide" series we will show you how to download free satellite images, eg from the Landsat mission, in a simple and quick way using the Earth Explorer browser.

Today's publication of the “Geoinformation Guide” will introduce us to the secrets of satellite imagery. We will learn how to open satellite images and create color compositions. We will also learn what information is hidden in the filenames of satellite imagery.

In today's article from the series "Geoinformation Guide" you will get to know the functionality of the web application Sentinel Playground, which enables to visualize imagery coming from the Sentinel-2 satellite.

Today’s night (2:49 CET) Sentinel-2B satellite, which is the twin brother of Sentinel-2A satellite, was launched from the spaceport in French Guiana.

US Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a prototype web application for Sentinel-2 imagery browsing and downloading - Sentinel2Look Viewer.

Józef Tuliszkowski Science and Research Centre for Fire Protection – National Research Institute, as the organizational unit of the State Fire Service supervised by the Ministry of Interior and Administration, set up the Centre of Unmanned Systems "Drones Center". The Centre organizes a four-week training "Drones in geoinformation, crisis management, civil protection and infrastructure".

Planet company, the world leader in imaging the Earth with the large constellation of nanosatellites, announced the integration of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 data on its Planet Platform. The difficult process of data integration turned out to be a success.

DigitalGlobe, the leading American provider of high-resolution satellite imagery, announced on its blog the launch of the Open Data Program, which aims to provide satellite data for selected large-scale natural disasters.

Launching of the Sentinel-2B optical satellite is planned for 7th March. New satellite will join its twin Sentinel-2A satellite which is already in the orbit since June 2015. All of the operational tests that were conducted from 2016, ended up successfully, thanks to which Sentinel-2B has been transported to the spaceport in French Guiana.

Today's "Geoinformation Guide" series concerns the global OpenStreetMap project, which allows us to view and retrieve free vector data.

Year 2016 abounded in terrorist events, which invariably shock the whole world. Information about the attacks in Brussels, Paris or about the latest attack in Berlin, in which many innocent people were killed, were circulated by the Western media. The Middle East remains the most inflammable spot in terms of terrorist attacks, in particular Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. In addition, the alarming increase in terrorist attacks in Europe has been reported in 2016.

On 15 December, NASA has launched a constellation of 8 microsatellites – Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS). The launch took place from the US Air Force Base at Cape Canaveral. Microsatellites were carried to low-Earth orbit 500 km above the Earth. CYGNSS is funded by NASA and its main developers are the University of Michigan and the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI).

On 9 November 2016, the final results of the project "A comprehensive protection system for logistics of multi-entity rescue operations", financed by the National Centre for Research and Development, were presented at the training ground of the Main School of Fire Service in Kazuń.