01 October 2014 – Earthstar Geographics LLC (San Diego, CA, USA) today announced the release of the latest round of upgrades to its TerraColor 15-meter global satellite imagery product. The upgrades include greatly improved imagery for many remote island areas, such as Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the Maldives, the Red Sea and the entire South Pacific. The upgrades also include some of the only 15-meter ice-free mosaics ever produced for the remote Arctic island areas of Svalbard, Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zemlya.
TerraColor image of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
“Our new upgrades greatly improve satellite image mapping of many remote parts of the world for which good imagery has been very difficult to find,” said Eric Augenstein of Earthstar Geographics. “We composite many individual images to produce nearly cloud-free mosaics that allow unprecedented views of these areas for a wide variety of applications.”
TerraColor is a precision orthorectified global imagery basemap built from Landsat 7, Landsat 8 and ALI satellite imagery that provides pole-to-pole coverage with a variety of ocean fill options. Applications include web-based mapping, GPS tracking, GIS backdrops, television, print and film images, military/defense logistics, flight simulation, 3-D visualization, accurate cartographic mapping and many others. TerraColor images provide colorful, detailed and visually pleasing views of the earth at medium resolution, and are suitable for mapping at scales of 1:60,000 and higher.
About Earthstar Geographics LLC
Earthstar Geographics LLC specializes in products and services for the geospatial data industries with over 20 years experience in remote sensing and image processing. For complete information on the TerraColor imagery, visit the TerraColor website at www.terracolor.net