Biodiversity monitored from space / ESA TV Exchanges / 02-02-2007
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
02-Feb-07 10:10 – 10:25 GMT
Biodiversity monitored from space
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay 1: 2 February 16.00-16.15 GMT
Replay 2: 3 February 11.50-12:05 GMT
The world’s biodiversity is vanishing at an unprecedented rate – around 100 species every day – due to land use change and pollution, for example. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity calls to reduce the current rate of biodiversity loss and to support this initiative, ESA has kicked off its new DIVERSITY project.
ESA has identified four main users for satellite data, among them UNESCO who is also the main coordinator between the data users and contractors selected by ESA.
Today’s Exchange was recorded at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, and documents how satellite data actually helps to monitor the environmental conditions that influence biodiversity.
The Exchange is made of an A-roll of 4 minutes with English voiceover (split audio) plus a B-roll with clean international sound.
The A-roll script script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS48938.pdf
A Media Player preview clip (24 MB) of the A-roll is online under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/biodiversity_31-10-06_wmphigh.wmv
A broadcast quality Mpeg-2 file (featuring A- and B-roll, 870 MB) is also online. Due to the file size, please use a download manager:
http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mpeg2/biodiversity_31-01-07_mpeg2ps.mpg
This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by the European Commission’s “Europe by Satellite” (EbS) service. You can find the complete transmission schedule and download scripts and shot lists, also for ESA TV items, from the EbS Web site at http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/schedule.cfm
More background information can be found on http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMC1LSVYVE_index_0.html.
Transmission details:EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13° East (DVB/MPEG-2)
Horizontal, F=12,476 MHz (MCPC, Europe by Satellite)
SR=27,500 MS/sec, FEC=3/4
For further information, visit our website at http://television.esa.int. For other enquires, contact Claus Habfast, Tel +31 71 565 3838, Fax +31 71 565 6340, e-mail claus.habfast@esa.int.
