Litigation is the basic legal right that guarantees every corporation its decade in court. —David Porter, American Naval Officer, 1813-1891 The future of U.S. government agreements to purchase commercial optical satellite imagery is in limbo, and the natives...
Landsat Has Many Fans, But Needs
By Marcia S. Smith, editor, SpacePolicyOnline.com. The Landsat land remote sensing satellite program is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary onJuly 23, 2012. While users remain enthusiastic about current Landsat data and the long-term data set enabled by...
NGA's Self-Service POD Improves
By Bob Hicks, technical executive, Office of the Americas, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (www.nga.mil), Springfield, Va. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Point of Distribution (POD) gives customers on-demand access to NGA’s homeland...
NY-Alert Powers Statewide Warning System
   The New York state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES) needed a way to alert the entire population of New York State—more than 19 million people—in the event of an emergency. The solution came in the form of a powerful tool called...
LiDAR Offers Faster, Less Expensive Field Data
The Missouri Department of Transportation is benefiting from a range of LiDAR-based mapping methods. Â By George Kopp, P.E., Missouri Department of Transportation (http://www.modot.mo.gov/), Jefferson City, Mo. ollecting data to design Missouri Department of...
Reduce Data Overload
By Dr. Craig A. Knoblock, Geosemble Technologies (http://www.geosemble.com)Â Manhatten Beach, Calif. Data overload is a major problem for organizations, and the problem is getting worse across all industries. Recent IDC research indicates that information workers...
Seeking Submeter Success
By Charlotte Gabriel-Robez, Astrium GEO-Information Services (www.astrium-geo.com), Toulouse, France. Pléiades 1, the first of a dual-satellite Earth observation system designed to deliver 50-centimeter color imaging products, was launched successfully...
Building a Network of Homeland Security Drones
Public wireless infrastructure could be leveraged to enable unmanned aircraft-based sensor networks for homeland security. Â By Kai Daniel and Christian Wietfeld, Communication Networks Institute, TU Dortmund University (www.tu-dortmund.de/uni/International),...
Industry Updates
ASPRS Boosts Resolve for Moderate-Resolution Imagery The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) recently issued its third resolution calling for immediate support and funding to continue the U.S. moderate-resolution imaging program. More...
New Blue Marble Image Captivates Millions
People love images of the full disk of Earth as it would appear from space. NASA science colleague Norman Kuring recently took some fresh data from the agency’s newest Earth observation satellite, projected them onto a disk and voila—3 million people viewed the...
