Toulouse Space Show

8-11 June 2010, Toulouse, France

 

The Toulouse Space Show is an international event dedicated to telecommunication and Space Applications, for all areas of the Space industry including large organisations, SMEs, research centers, and users of Space applications (surveyors, town planners, farmers, doctors and archaeologists).

 

The 2010 event centred around the following seven major events:

 

  • SPACE APPLI - 3rd international conference on space applications
  • TECHNO DIS - 2nd symposium on technological breakthroughs in space activities
  • ECO SPACE - Space Symposium and Economy "in 2010 what are the prospects of the space sector?"
  • Workshop NEREUS - Network of European Regions Users of Space technology
  • S@TCOM 2010: Symposium on "New Deal - the complementarity of terrestrial and satellite telecommunication"
  • An international exhibition
  • Associated technical events and events for the general public, students and young people aimed at promoting the value of Space applications in civil life

 

At the 2010 Toulouse Space Show, VEGA Technologies presented papers on the the following topics:

 

  • The GPU (Graphic Processing Unit), previously a standard CPU’s peripheral component, has become a major component of any computer. While it was originally dedicated to the generation of 3D real-time images, the GPU came by its processing capacity to exceed the CPU in terms of performance and costs to specific operations (massively parallel processing for example). Based on this assumption, CNES (French National Space Agency) started a project in 2008 to use GPU Computing for Earth Observation Image Processing. This project, developed by VEGA Technologies, was to evaluate the interest for CNES to implement the technological upgrades offered by GPU Computing. The result of this project will be presented by VEGA at Toulouse Space Show 2010.
  • The ISIS programme - 'Promoting the Scientific Use of Spot Imaging' - is a CNES initiative set up in 1990 to facilitate access to data from SPOT imagery for the French and European scientific community. ISIS offers researchers a range of products at a special rate. Any researcher, teacher or student working in a laboratory or an institute of higher education in the EU can benefit from the ISIS project. Administered by VEGA Technologies SAS, a central part of the ISIS project is www.isis-cnes.fr website - a portal of communication between project participants: CNES, SPOT and users. It allows to order archived images, 3D products and to order programming. Products specialized in the study of glaciers (data from the SPIRIT catalogue) will also be incorporated during the year 2010. Since its establishment ten years ago, ISIS has shown strong activity with 338 cases ordered by 212 people. Images ordered by the users have enabled the development of applications in various fields such as agriculture, topography, environment, geology, forestry.

 

For more information about VEGA's participation at the 2010 Toulouse Space Show, please contact Karen Rogers, or visit the Toulouse Space Show website.