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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Work with JPEG2000 and MrSID on LizardTech GeoViewer for iPad
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 following: Open MrSID and JPEG 2000 images. Select bands to view from a multispectral image. […]
Chinese Varyag aircraft carrier, snapped by DigitalGlobe in Yellow Sea
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 its 10th anniversary in October. This is a satellite image from the DigitalGlobe Analysis Center […]
Intergraph and DigitalGlobe offer a geospatial challenge
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 and a chance to win five WorldView-2 scenes of your choice. In addition, three finalists […]