Eduspace, the European Space Agency (ESA) portal for schools has been recently redesigned and updated.

Eduspace was created in 1998 with the aim to introduce earth observation key concepts to schools; since its launch, the website has been providing catalogues of earth imagery and a sophisticated image processing software package called LEOWorks, which allows the manipulation and analysis of satellite imagery on school computers.

The new version is more user-friendly and flexible, thus allowing new content to be easily added and elaborated. The previous modules have been retained although their presentation has been changed:  the various application areas are presented as different themes - Earth from Space and Environmental Issues – that can also be searched by geographical area. LEOWorks has also been improved and it is now able to perform complex processing operations, such as image classification, geometric correction and pan-sharpening.

In the near future, the existent material will be further extended in order to provide general information about all continents; in the same way, new linguistic versions (for example Greek) will be added to the already available ones: English, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Further information:

• Original news item – European Space Agency (ESA) website
• Eduspace website