SERTIT, a remote sensing and image processing service was created in 1987 by Paul DE FRAIPONT within the ENSPS, Strasbourg, a graduate Engineering School.SERTIT’s vocation is to format data and extract information from data produced by Earth Observation systems. As well as optical data it processes radar data from operational satellites: SPOT, IKONOS, LANDSAT, ERS 1-2, RADARSAT, ENVISAT ...

SERTIT is also specialized in crisis remote sensing applications. It is supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and has just been contracted by the French Space Agency (CNES) to produce added value EO derived products, as of January 2004 and for 3 years, within the framework of the International Charter ‘Space and Major Catastrophes’.

SERTIT’s staff is comprised of 12 permanent members (specialists in data processing, geology, land surveying, photogrammetry, geography, physics) reinforced by many trainees who come to complete or supplement their educational courses by professional training.