Envisat and the Bacchus Project / ESA TV Exchanges / 09-11-2004
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
09-Nov-04 10:15 – 10:30 GMT
Envisat and the Bacchus Project
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay I: 9 November 19:45-20:00 GMT
Replay II: 13 November 14:00 -14:15 GMT
On Thursday 19 November, the 2004 Beaujolais Nouveau will be rolled out across the globe, for many the first opportunity to taste the new harvest. Has it been a vintage year, what will it be like? Every expert has his own idea….
But specialist engineers and administrations need a more comprehensive view of Europe’s vineyards, and they turn to satellites for the necessary data.
Europe is one of the world’s foremost wine producers, with a great variety of wines, often produced on small properties with practices handed down from generation to generation. Methods can still be largely empirical, costly and some times inappropriate in a context of strong international competition.
Three years ago, ESA initiated Bacchus, a technology and research pilot programme to obtain accurate, pan-European data on wineyards. Now managed as a consortium, it is backed by the European Commission and involves companies, research institutes and wine growers’ organisations through out Europe.
Today’s programme provides an overview of this project, including filming at French and Italian vineyards.
The script will be on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS36902.pdf
A Media Player File for preview is on line under
http://esa.capcave.com/wmp/eurn13_25102004_wmplow.wmv
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.bacchus-project.com/.
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.
