Category Archives: imagery

Imagery of Moore, Oklahoma before and after May 20 tornado

Posted on May 23, 2013 by glenn

The Pléiades satellites, operated and built by Astrium have captured images of Moore, Oklahoma, which clearly shows the devastation caused by the massive tornado that swept through the region on May 20, 2013.  By comparing today’s image with an image … Continue reading →

Posted in environment, imagery, weather |

Your Very Own Balloon Mapping Kit from PublicLab

Posted on April 2, 2013 by glenn

Balloon mapping, you’ve seen and heard about this cool, crowd-sourced effort to capture aerial imagery and low-altitude aerial photography. Well now, thanks to PublicLab (an awesome effort) you can buy your very own balloon mapping kit for just $95. These … Continue reading →

Posted in imagery, open source, opengov |

Webinar Tip – Serving Geospatial Imagery Doesn’t Have to be so Hard

Posted on March 29, 2013 by glenn

Here’s details of another webinar coming from the Seattle-based crew at LizardTech – “Effortless: Serving Geospatial Imagery Doesn’t Have to be so Hard”. This free event is scheduled to run live online Tuesday April 2 starting at 11 AM PDF … Continue reading →

Posted in education, events, imagery, webinar |

USDA Forest Service, NASA forest disturbance monitoring tool ForWarn

Posted on April 10, 2012 by glenn

A new data-rich resource from the USDA – ForWarn is a satellite-based forest disturbance monitoring system for the conterminous US. It delivers new forest change products every eight days and provides tools for attributing abnormalities to insects, disease, wildfire, storms, … Continue reading →

Posted in imagery |

King County, WA 2009 Aerial Photography Availability

Posted on April 10, 2012 by glenn

King County Washington, who have recently boasted some tremendous $$ ROI figures, has recently released 2009 aerial photography availability in their online iMAP system. According to the County GIS Department, set of aerial images was captured from April through October … Continue reading →

Posted in imagery |

DigitalGlobe online Image Store – Imagery for Press and Special Events

Posted on February 24, 2012 by glenn

DigitalGlobe, via their blog, has announced a new e-commerce offering in their DG online store. The store will be their imagery hub for any press outlets  interested in obtaining imagery of breaking news or human interest stories around the globe.  … Continue reading →

Posted in imagery |

Work with JPEG2000 and MrSID on LizardTech GeoViewer for iPad

Posted on January 21, 2012 by glenn

Recall, LizardTech recently announced their GeoViewer app for iPad (iOS), their solution for viewing massive imagery compressed as MrSID and JPEG 2000 formats on your iPad. Users can expect to have access to a fair amount of functionality including the … Continue reading →

Posted in apple, imagery, tablet |

Chinese Varyag aircraft carrier, snapped by DigitalGlobe in Yellow Sea

Posted on December 14, 2011 by gisuser

DigitalGlobe’s Analysis Center has captured the first shot of Chinese aircraft carrier Varyag from space on its second sea trial. The mage was collected on Dec 8th by the first satellite in DigitalGlobe’s constellation – QuickBird – which just celebrated … Continue reading →

Posted in gis, imagery |

Intergraph and DigitalGlobe offer a geospatial challenge

Posted on December 1, 2011 by glenn

An interesting competition being offered up to the ERDAS user community from Intergraph and DigitalGlobe. The competition challenges the user community to exploit tools from ERDAS and imagery from DigitalGlobe. Enter the challenge to get free imagery for your study … Continue reading →

Posted in developers, imagery |

TerraGo Brings GeoPDF production capabilities to EyeQ

Posted on September 16, 2011 by glenn

TerraGO has announced a partnership with Global imagery provider GeoEye, the partnership means that GeoPDF (Geospatial PDF) production capabilities will come in the next version of GeoEye’s EyeQ. About EyeQ… The EyeQ platform is the first of its kind to … Continue reading →

Posted in imagery |

LizardTech Express Server 7 – Fast, Stable, and Support for MG4

Posted on July 5, 2011 by glenn

Last week I had a chance to hear first hand from LizardTech Product Manager Jon Skiffington about the latest release of the company’s flagship solution, Express Server 7 which officially was announced this morning. Boasting loads of speed, Express Server … Continue reading →

Posted in imagery |

High Res Imagery with Bing Maps Global Ortho Project

Posted on June 27, 2011 by glenn

Today, Bing Maps has unveiled their Exclusive High Res Imagery with Global Ortho Project. Launched in the spring of 2010, the Global Ortho program is an ambitious mapping project that aims to provide www.bing.com/maps with 30cm (1 foot) aerial blanket … Continue reading →

Posted in imagery, Microsoft |