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 Company Reference

Name
VITO
Full Name Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) - Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Processes (TAP)

Country
Belgium

Company Type
Research Laboratory

Address
Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologische (VITO)
Onderzoek Boeretang 200
B-2400 MOL
Belgium
Tel:+ 32 14 33 55 11
Fax:+ 32 14 33 55 99
Web: http://www.vito.be/
Email: vito@vito.be

Contact Point
Dirk Van Speybroeck
Head of TAP unit - Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Processes
Tel:+ 32 14 33 68 07
Fax:+ 32 14 32 27 95
Email: dirk.vanspeybroeck@vito.be

Company Description
Vito, the Flemish Institute for Technological Research, is an independent centre conducting customer-oriented contract research and developing innovative products and processes in the fields of energy, environment and materials. Vito's activities are focused on stimulating sustainable technological development and high standard R&D in the following fields of expertise:
  • Energy technology
  • Environmental measurement
  • Environmental and process technology
  • Environmental toxicology
  • Integral environmental studies
  • Materials technology
  • Remote sensing and earth observation processes

    In its Remote sensing and atmospheric processes research domain Vito makes long-lasting and internationally recognised contributions towards the modelling of terrestrial and atmospheric processes and the use of terrestrial observation for monitoring of the environment.


  • Number of Projects
    5

    Projects
    UHI (Subcontractor) - Urban Heat Island and Urban Thermography
    SEVESEO (Prime contractor) - EO-based services in support to industrial risk management
    GlobCarbon (Prime contractor) - Global Land Products for Carbon Model Assimilation
    GlobScar (Prime contractor) - ATSR Global Burned Forest Mapping
    SARSCAPE (Prime contractor) - Landscape Structure Mapping for Atmospheric Deposition Modelling using ERS SAR scene texture features