An impressive virtual 3D model flies you around the Curtin University campus (Australia) created with aero3Dpr. About the project… Based on advanced aerial photogrammetry techniques, aero3Dpro is a 3D modeling service from Australian mapping and survey company AEROmetrex. The unprecedented complexity, detail and accuracy contained in aero3Dpro models, combined with the ability to interact with and extract real 3D information of both natural and built environments, can be a very valuable resource for industries – see more http://www.aero3Dpro.com.au
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Sanborn Map Company Purchases Visual Intelligence iOne n-Oblique Sensor System Solution
Houston-based Visual Intelligenc eannounced today that Sanborn Map Company’s extensive evaluation of Visual Intelligence’s iOne n-Oblique Sensor System Solution for oblique and 3D imaging has resulted in a purchase. Sanborn is the first customer to deploy this new and innovative aerial digital camera system, the industry’s fastest, most stable, accurate, and economical sensor for oblique and 3D applications. Sanborn will deploy the iOne n-Oblique for 3D mapping contracts it holds with its worldwide customer base.
DigitalGlobe First Look Webinar – Essential Imagery for First Responders
Over the past week while the massive flood was occurring in Colorado you may have heard DigitalGlobe touting a service called FirstLook – given that the floods were basically taking place right in the backyard of DigitalGlobe HQ I have to say that I was quite curious as to what the company would be doing in response to the events – Enter FirstLook. Simply put, DigitalGlobe’s FirstLook is an online subscription service for emergency management that provides fast web-based access to pre- and post-event imagery of world disasters delivered to almost any desktop or web-based mapping platform. FirstLook Plus integrates an additional layer of information to identify key features to aid responders by making analysis more efficient.
For those interested in more details about FirstLook, the company will be hosting a webinar on Sept 26. Note, the company has also put together a slideshare of analytics and reports from flood ravaged areas in Colorado.
Spectral Transformer tool sets for Landsat-8 imagery from Geosage
Landsat-8 captures more than 400 scenes per day, and as of early June 2013 more than 20,000 scenes are already available. New from Geosage, free tools for working with Landsat 8 imagery.
GeoSage has released Spectral Transformer tool sets for Landsat-8 imagery to fill in this gap. The standalone tools are powerful and easy to use, and perform three steps of analyses:
- Step 1: Simple band combination to make three-band imagery composite
- Step 2: Adaptive linear and non-linear image stretching to make colorful imagery composite
- Step 3: Advanced and fast image pan-sharpening to make spatially sharper and colorful composite
The tools specifically target Landsat-8 imagery in GeoTIFF format directly downloaded from the USGS Landsat-8 distribution portals, e.g. GloVis.
See more from Geosage and see also the official announcement HERE
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Imagery of Moore, Oklahoma before and after May 20 tornado
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 acquired on April 29, 2013, it is very easy to see that buildings, trees, cars and virtually everything else has been completed destroyed along the tornado’s path. More on the imagery can be found here
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Your Very Own Balloon Mapping Kit from PublicLab
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 tools are being developed to provide a low cost, easy to use, and safe methods for making maps and aerial images. Over the last two years, we’ve built a global community of mappers who are engaged in discussion around the development and use of this tool and others. These balloon kits have been used to map the deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico!
To learn more about balloon mapping and get involved in the community, check out the open source documentation on the Public Lab website.
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Webinar Tip – Serving Geospatial Imagery Doesn’t Have to be so Hard
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 and last just a half hour.
Event details – Do you have a need for a fast, reliable, standards-based image delivery? Then join our webinar to learn how with Express Server, users on any device access imagery faster, even in bandwidth-starved environments. Support for MrSID, JPEG 2000, NITF and Geospatial PDF formats ensures the highest visual quality regardless of connection speed.
USDA Forest Service, NASA forest disturbance monitoring tool ForWarn
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, human development or unusual weather. Archived data provide disturbance tracking across all lands since 2000. Interactive maps are accessible. ForWarn data are readily accessed through the project’s Forest Change Assessment Viewer using a standard internet browser. See details at http://forwarn.forestthreats.org/
Official announcement about ForWarn
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King County, WA 2009 Aerial Photography Availability
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 of 2009 by Pictometry . Image resolution for western King and southwestern Snohomish counties, the Snoqualmie Pass area, and most of the US Highway 2 corridor in northeast King County is six inches per pixel. Images for the remainder of King County have one-foot-per-pixel resolution. Note: A Puget Sound area coalition of King County, cities, the USGS, and utility and service districts is planning to acquire high-resolution orthoimagery and ancillary products in 2012. Interesting to see that the County’s impressive virtual map center is providing the public with awesome public transit and related maps, many also now provided as GeospatialPDF which are supported by the Avenza Systems PDF Maps app on iPad (See @pdfmaps)
See the King County, Washington iMAP HERE
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DigitalGlobe online Image Store – Imagery for Press and Special Events
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. They will also offer access to Analysis Center reports, providing detailed insight into disasters, political events, and other categories. For the consumer the store is also a way to purchase poster-sized jpegs of imagery collected by their sensors.
Found online at http://store.digitalglobe.com the user will be greeted with several options for search including: news/media, cool places, world events, sports, and a featured image hub. From that point images are stored by geography, for example, you could easily locate an image or poster of the Opera House in Sydney, Australia… very nice as I’m a huge fan of imagery as art… cool stuff from DigitalGlobe! I can just picture one hanging on my office wall right now!
