New indepth coverage for September: Satellite Imaging

During the week of September 15th, GISCafe Voice will run a special feature blog on the topic, “Satellite Imaging.”

If you wish to have your company included, please let me know, Susan Smith at susan.smith@ibsystems.com The Satellite Imaging Questionnaire will be sent to all companies who offer satellite imaging products and services, so that we may thoroughly cover all opportunities available. Or, you can print it yourself from this blog and email it to me.

At Esri UC, we heard about the launch of DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 from DigitalGlobe senior scientist, Product Development and Labs, Bill Baugh. This satellite will be especially helpful for mapping mineral mining.

WorldView-3 is superspectral and has 16 spectrums, and contains the overall structure of spectrum. “The bands coming in WorldView-3 will allow you to go after data you might not be able to go after normally,” said Baugh. “You’ll be able to see iron, rocks (short wave infrared) and steel infrastructure.”Additionally, with SWIR-6 you can see through the smoke from a fire, which would be valuable for crisis response, when you have to see what’s on the ground.

At the other end of the spectrum (excuse the pun), in 2009, a couple of Stanford grad students envisioned that they could “index the earth the way Google indexes the Internet.” This is how the radical satellite imaging company Skybox was born. And now Google has acquired the company. So I guess that’s where Google comes in: already there, in the way of indexing. And Skybox is already there in terms of providing the satellite. Last November the company launched its first mini-bar-sized satellite, SkySat-1 into orbit aboard a Russian Dnepr rocket. Plans are to launch eight more by the end of 2015. Skybox even has its own rocket.

I spoke to many of you at Esri UC, but I know there are many out there that I may have missed seeing. Please contact me at your earliest convenience to be included in the September coverage. Deadline for materials: September 1, 2014.

Satellite Imaging Questionnaire

Tags: ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, GPS, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, remote sensing, satellite imagery

Categories: climate change, cloud, data, DigitalGlobe, DMTI Spatial, eSpatial, Esri, Esri UC 2014, field GIS, geocoding, geomatics, geospatial, GIS, Google, image-delivery software, lidar, location based sensor fusion, location intelligence, RapidEye, remote sensing, satellite imagery, sensors, spatial data, SPOT 7 satellite, TerraGo

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