Niek Schaap

Geoserve BV

Geoserve B.V., is a private corporation, based in the Netherlands and established in 1997. Since then, Geoserve has become a European imagery service distribution company. The company has distribution/reselling contracts for all major satellite image types (WorldView-1 and 2, Spot, GeoEye, Radarsat, Landsat, Envisat, Ikonos, Kompsat, Formosat, QuickBird, Aster, Terrasar-X, ALOS, RapidEye, etc.). Most of Geoserve's turnover is generated by distributing "standard" image products to (government) institutions, engineering offices and multinationals. Typically we serve our clients with the entire service package from data gathering, data supplying, data preprocessing and data hosting. Currently Geoserve serves about 50 different customers spread over 19 different countries. Geoserve has framework contracts with the European Union, (cooperation of-) Oil companies, the Ministry of Defense and large Engineering Offices. Geoserve's shareholders are the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), BMTArgoss B.V. and the Geoserve staff. All shareholders are leading their discipline for many years. Geoserve has it's offices in Emmeloord, the Netherlands and has 5 employees in permanent service.