Based in Sophia-Antipolis, France, LuxCarta specializes in processing satellite images to create 3D models. The company was created by the merger of GeoImage and ComputaMaps in 2013. Following the departure of one of LuxCarta's four co-founders and associates, the...
CONUS 15-Meter Landsat 8 Mosaic from Earthstar Geographics
November 12, 2015 — Earthstar Geographics LLC (San Diego, CA, USA) announced the release of their new TerraColor NextGen Landsat 8 satellite image mosaic covering the contiguous US (CONUS) 48 states. The product is a seamless mosaic of pan-sharpened true color...
Celebrating 15 years
October 26, 2015 — The International Charter Space and Major Disasters celebrates 15 years of free access to the best-available satellite images. Founded in 2000 by the European, French and Canadian Space agencies, the International Charter Space and Major Disasters...
Night Time Satellite Images Show Limited Light at Night in ISIS-Controlled Regions
August 13, 2015 — The territory controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has grown rapidly since the start of the Syrian Civil War, and in 2014 ISIS expanded its control into Northern Iraq. While there are many media reports on violence and...
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...
Modeling the World
Image processing innovations are creating value for decision makers. By Robert Schowengerdt, professor emeritus, University of Arizona (http://www.arizona.edu/), Tucson, Ariz. He is the author of Remote Sensing—Models and Methods for Image Processing (2006), which...
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...
Air Combat Command's GeoBase Mission
Advanced raster management speeds disaster response and other mission-critical data to U.S. Air Force operations worldwide. By Mike Cannon, Dave Williams and Matt Moore, AECOM (http://www.aecom.com/), Virginia Beach, Va. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) is divided into Major...