IDL and ENVI are at the Heart of International Projects with EADS Defense and Security Systems in France Customer Challenge EADS needed to create a solution using satellite imagery to enable the National Forest Inventory to identify forest cut inventories. Solution Achieved EADS Defense and Security Systems developed the Metis forêt solution, in partnership with the CEMAGREF (Research Institute for Agriculture and Environment Engineering), the IFN (National Forest Inventory), the Research Ministery and the CNES ( French Space Agency ). "We developed applications with IDL and ENVI because of their friendly and easy-to-use tools," explains Patrice Couillaud, project manager at EADS. "We used a method developed by the CEMAGREF based on wood cutting detection that compares a series of satelli

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