Who Uses Landsat Satellite Imagery? By John R. Hughes, editorial director, Earth Imaging Journal (https://eijournal.com/), Greeley, Colo. Exactly who uses Landsat satellite imagery and what value do they derive from the information? In the first study of its kind,...
Industry Overview
Military Takes Cues from Consumers Call it technology transfer in reverse. The phenomenal growth in the number of smart phones, along with a host of mobile applications and social media’s skyrocketing success, have become too much for the Pentagon to ignore in...
Who Uses Landsat Satellite Imagery?
Industry Insights By John R. Hughes, editorial director, Earth Imaging Journal (www.eijournal.com), Greeley, Colo. Exactly who uses Landsat satellite imagery and what value do they derive from the information? In the first study of its kind, U.S. Geological Survey...
Persistics: A Revoltion in Motion Imagery Processing
By Roger Gant, a contract employee supporting the InnoVision communication team for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Bethesda, Md. As technology continues to steadily multiply the amount of information available from current and future...
Beware”Map Projections Do Matter
By Robert Simmon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (www.nasa.gov/goddard), Greenbelt, Md. hen it comes to misinterpreting a satellite image or map, there are many ways the media and other organizations can get it wrong. For example, consider this recent headline and...
Data Fusion Expands Intelligence Options
By James. S. Blundell, vice president, Geospatial Products and Solutions, Overwatch Systems (http://www.overwatch.com/), Sterling, Va. Remote sensing, in all its varied forms and functions, has continually evolved, from the Civil War-era fixed balloons with spotters...
The Great Grain Robbery: Lessons Learned from Earth Imaging's Early History
By Dr. Gary E. Weir, historian, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (http://www.nga.mil/), Bethesda, Md. Have you ever heard of the Great Grain Robbery of 1972? What sounds like a train hijacking actually opened the intelligence community’s eyes to the...
Keeping an Eye on Asia
Following the March 11, 2011, tsunami that ravaged Japan’s coastline, the geospatial community has rallied around the country, providing disaster response tools on the ground and an array of geospatially based information resources via the Internet. Japan continues...
Technology Will Drive Tomorrow’s Homeland Security
By André Doumitt, CEO of Geosemble Technologies (http://www.geosemble.com/), El Segundo, Calif. The Department of Homeland Security's  all-encompassing mission is "to prevent and deter terrorist attacks,    protect against and respond to threats and hazards to...
Defense Watch: Commercial Imagery Promotes International Cooperation
By Dawn Eilenberger, director of the Office of International Affairs and Policy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (www.nga.mil), Bethesda, Md. Rapid access to unclassified imagery to support disaster response allows the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency...