High-Resolution Satellite Imagery— Can Funding Keep Pace With Technology? By Ian Dowman, professor emeritus, University College London, and author of High-Resolution Optical Satellite Imagery, available from Whittles Publishing (www.whittlespublishing.com) and in...
Appreciating Modern Scene Visualization and 3-D Analysis
By Jay D. Krasnow, Office of Integrated Analytic Services, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (www.nga.mil), Springfield, Va. From Osama bin Laden’s fortress to the damage caused by the tsunami at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, scene visualization...
Industry Updates
CryoSat Satellite Goes to Sea The European Space Agency launched CryoSat in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but high-resolution mapping of ocean-floor topography now is being added to the ice mission’s repertoire. The topography of the ocean...
On the Cutting Edge of Emergency Management
The U.S. Geological Survey’s Emergency Operations Office gives emergency managers fast access to critical satellite imagery. By Kevin P. Corbley, principal, Corbley Communications (www.corbleycommunications.com), Castle Rock, Colo., and John Stenmark,...
Maximize Your Mapping Solutions
Prepackaged planimetric imagery can work wonders for aging imagery archives and tight budgets. Â By Kevin Bullock, product manager, DigitalGlobe (www.digitalglobe.com), Longmont, Colo. Planimetric imagery is a great satellite imagery alternative or addition...
Empowering a New Breed of Geospatial Users
The convergence of smart GIS, 3-D and LiDAR technologies is enabling more decision makers who aren’t GISpros to better manage our ever-changing world. By Mladen Stojic, vice president, Geospatial, Intergraph Security, Government & Infrastructure...
Large-Format Printing in the Field
 Advanced printing systems coupled with mobile capabilities offer geospatial users new tools for mission-critical applications. By Bob Honn, director of Marketing Services, Wide-Format Printing Systems Division, Océ North America (www.oce.com), Chicago.  As...
Industry Updates May-June
 Satellite Heavyweights in Buyout Battle Facing federal budget cuts likely to impact government deals that provide most of their annual revenues, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye each have rejected unsolicited offers to buy one another. OnMay 4, 2012, GeoEye proposed to...
Saudi Crops Flourish in the Desert
In this series of Landsat images, sensors detected light reflecting off Earth in the short wave-infrared, near-infrared and green portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. With this combination of wavelengths, new vegetation appears bright green while dry vegetation...
Buying Optical Satellite Imagery?
By Nick Hubing, president, Land Info Worldwide Mapping (www.landinfo.com), Denver. A little more than a decade ago, the only satellite imagery most people saw was a weather map on a TV broadcast. That changed with the launch of IKONOS in 1998, when the world’s...
