HSRS, Help Service Remote Sensing

HSRS is a Czech SME which has been involved in the Czech and European spatial data marketfor more than 18 years. HSRS offers a wide variety of services dealing with the creation of geo-information systems.

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has estimated that there are as many as three million brownfield sites across Europe, often located and well connected within urban boundaries and as such offering a competitive alternative to greenfield investments.

Brownfields4LIFEtackles the issue of brownfields, their advertisement and offer to investors. The main user group on the data provider side includes municipalities. It should be a priority of a municipality to reuse brownfields efficiently, to protect the environment and to improve the quality of life of its citizens.

The target group includes also investors and other businesses such as banks and real estate agencies. The aim is to develop a broker for brownfields which will provide services for automated data harvesting from various sources, data update by municipalities and citizens and mechanisms for data reuse through APIs and other machine- to-machine interfaces. The brownfield broker should help to improve the ratio between developments made on brownfields and greenfieldsites which is currently imbalanced.

The Team

Thomas Mildorf: User requirements and business modelling.

Karl Charvat: Customers and architecture.

Stanislav Holy