The quest for geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) began with the first skirmishes between rival tribes centuries ago. Today’s warfighter seeks the same edge by having better GEOINT about the enemy than the enemy has about him or her—that hasn’t changed. But the way...
Industry Update
Antarctic Mosaic Comprises More Than 3,000 RADARSAT-2 Images MDA's Information Systems Group released a detailed new image of Antarctica for use in applications such as global climate change, shipping and transportation, exploration and environmental science. The...
Looking Down on a Shooting Star
Many people have spent time outdoors under a dark sky, watching for “shooting stars†to streak across the firmament. While not actual stars, shooting stars do come from outer space in the form of meteoroids entering Earth’s atmosphere. This astronaut photograph,...
PV Labs, Telops Introduce New ISR Tool for Chemical Detection
Toronto, Sept. 28, 2011—PV Labs Inc., a high-end image acquisition and analytics company, and Telops, a leading supplier of infrared hyperspectral imaging sensors, today announced successful aerial performance testing for their new multi-intelligence Hyperspectral...
Oregon DOT Completes Large Leica Geosystems Purchase
Norcross, Ga., July 27, 2011—The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is a longtime user of survey equipment from Leica Geosystems, and recently enhanced survey crew capacities by purchasing ten Leica Viva TS15 Robotic Imaging Total Stations, four Viva CS15...
Venezuelan Geographic Institute Purchases Microsoft UltraCamXp
Graz, Austria, July 26, 2011—Microsoft UltraCam reseller GeoToolBox Ibérica S.L. (GTBi), based in Madrid, Spain, won an international tender with the Instituto Geográfico de Venezuela Simón Bolivar (IGVSB). The awarded contract includes an UltraCamXp digital...
Who Uses Landsat Satellite Imagery?
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...
Industry Updates
ESA Seeks Innovative Uses of Earth Observation Data Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs Martin Zeil joined with European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain in launching the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Masters...
Imagery in the News
Flooding Continues Along the Missouri River Floods advanced down the Missouri River at the end of June 2011, swelling the river significantly from Sioux City, Iowa, to Leavenworth, Kan. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA’s Aqua...
