Looking down on the desert vistas of the southwestern United States, an astronaut took this photograph of a short section of the Colorado River.
MDA Completes Acquisition of DigitalGlobe, Company Renamed Maxar Technologies
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) completed its acquisition of DigitalGlobe. The newly combined company will offer a broader set of space-based solutions, increased scale and a more-diversified revenue base.
NASA Makes EPIC Update to Daily Earth Pics
NASA upgraded its Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) imagery website that provides daily views of Earth from 1 million miles away, now allowing the public to choose natural or enhanced color images of Earth as well as zoom into an area on the globe.
See Where Imagery and GIS Go Next in The ArcGIS Imagery Book: New View. New Vision
Redlands, California —Getting a more intelligent picture of our planet just got easier thanks to an explosion in new imagery data collection sources, like drones and microsatellites, coupled with new image processing and analysis capabilities in Esri technology....
DigitalGlobe and Esri Announce New Long-Term Partnership to Expand World Imagery Map
WESTMINSTER, Colo., Jun. 27, 2016—DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced an agreement to make more current satellite imagery of the entire world available to users of Esri’s...
Sanborn Completes Connecticut Statewide Data Collection
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., - The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) flight team overcame challenging spring weather conditions to successfully collect high-resolution imagery of the entire state of Connecticut and its coastline in just five weeks. Altogether, the...
NGCC and Esri Provide Access to Authoritative Chinese Cartographic Maps and Imagery
Redlands, California —The world’s leading mapping platform company, Esri, and the National Geomatics Center of China (NGCC) held a signing ceremony in Beijing, China with respect to providing access to NGCC’s mapping web services. This historic agreement will...
Airbus Defense and Space and J.R. Simplot Company Partner to Deliver Crop Information in Near Real Time to Farmers in North America
Airbus Defense and Space and the J.R. Simplot Company have signed a multi-year agreement that will enable Simplot to have access to very high resolution imagery products from the Pléiades satellites (50cm resolution) over locations in the United States as well as...
Esri and NASA Collaborate to Advance Cloud Access to Imagery
Redlands, California—December 17, 2015 — Esri and NASA are collaborating to improve access to imagery and raster data stored in the cloud using a combination of two technologies, Meta Raster Format (MRF) and Limited Error Raster Compression (LERC). MRF is an Open...
MDA To Provide Multiple International Ground Stations With Direct Access To DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 Satellite
RICHMOND, BC, Dec. 10, 2015—MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. ("MDA" or the "Company") ( TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, today announced that it has signed a multi-million dollar contract with DigitalGlobe Inc. to provide multiple...
