PASADENA, Calif. – About two hours after landing on Mars and beaming back its first image, NASA’s Curiosity rover transmitted a higher-resolution image of its new Martian home, Gale Crater. Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., received the image, taken by one of the vehicle’s lower-fidelity, black-and-white Hazard Avoidance Cameras – […]
MDA to increase its provision of RADARSAT-2 imagery in support of Europe’s GMES
Richmond, BC – As previously announced in the news release dated July 20, 2012, MDA’s Information Systems Group (MDA) has signed a contract amendment for CA$11.9 million to increase its provision of RADARSAT-2 satellite imagery to Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) program. The additional RADARSAT-2 imagery addresses the gap in data availability […]
Fuze Go Top Satellite Image Fusion Software Now Commercially Available
FREDERICTON, (NB) – Scene Sharp Technologies today announced the commercial release of its Fuze Go™ brand pansharpening software. Fuze Go™ is an algorithm that creates high-resolution colour images of the earth by fusing multiple high-resolution black and white and low-resolution satellite colour images, a process known as pansharpening. “The problem with today’s most commonly […]
Proteus Completes Red Sea Satellite-Based Bathymetric Mapping Project in Just 10 Days
ABU DHABI, UAE, and BRISTOL, UK, 18 July 2012 – Proteus, a provider of satellite-derived bathymetric mapping and seabed classification services, announced today that it completed a 200-square-kilometer bathymetric mapping project along the Red Sea coastline in just 10 days. Proteus derived the bathymetric data from DigitalGlobe® WorldView-2 high-resolution, 8-band satellite imagery. “If this project […]
GeoEye Signs Two New Seven-Figure GeoEye-1 Imagery Contracts
Partners in Middle East and Asia Both Sign Up for Access to World’s Highest Resolution Commercial Earth-Imaging Satellite
SSTL announces exactView-1 satellite launch date
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is announcing the planned launch of exactView-1, the highest detection performance Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite ever built, on 22nd July by a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. exactView-1 (previously known as ADS-1b) was built under contract for exactEarth and will become the fifth deployed […]
Lockheed Martin Commercial GEO Satellites Surpass 1,000 Years In Orbit
NEWTOWN, Pa., June 26, 2012 — The Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) commercial geostationary (GEO) communications satellite fleet has achieved a significant milestone by accumulating 1,000 years of in-orbit operations. JCSAT-13, built for SKY Perfect JSAT, and VINASAT-2, manufactured for Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group, were successfully launched May 15 and are the 100th and 101st satellites in […]
NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Image Colorado wildfires
Nearly half of the United States’ airborne fire suppression equipment was operating over Colorado on June 25, 2012, CNN reported, as tens of thousands of acres burned. Fires raged in southwestern Colorado, northeastern Colorado, and multiple locations in between. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image on June […]
New High-Resolution, Data-Rich Aerial Images of Central London Now Available
New High-Resolution, Data-Rich Aerial Images of Central London Now Available Prior to World’s Largest Sporting Event – Imagery Provides Unique Defense, Security, Media & Promotional Applications
Microsoft UltraCamLp Purchased by Rocky Mountain Aerial Surveys
Graz, Austria — June 19, 2012 — Rocky Mountain Aerial Surveys (RMAS), an aerial data acquisition company based in Longmont, Colorado, has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft company, to purchase an UltraCamLp photogrammetric digital aerial camera system. With three aircraft and a staff of six, Rocky Mountain Aerial Surveys was originally founded […]