SERTIT, a remote sensing and image processing service was created in 1986 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 been contracted (since 2004) by the French Space Agency (CNES) to produce added value EO derived products, within the framework of the International Charter ‘Space and Major Catastrophes’ and the european program "Services and Applications For Emergency Response" (SAFER).

SERTIT’s staff is comprised of 20 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.