Earth imagery's unparalleled insights and transparency are elevating our understanding of today's interconnected world. The following graphics highlight a few of the many ways Earth observation chronicled some of 2015's noteworthy events and interesting phenomena.
PlanetObserver Continues Production of PlanetSAT 15 L8 Imagery Base Map: More than 50 Mill. sq km are Now Available
Clermont-Ferrand, October 2, 2015 — The French company PlanetObserver, specialized in imagery base map production for more than 25 years, announced today the coverage of more than 50 Mill. sq km with PlanetSAT 15 L8 base map. Processed from Landsat 8 imagery,...
DigitalGlobe's Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (Global-EGD) Contract Renewed for One Year
September 25, 2015 — We’re excited to announce that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded DigitalGlobe the second year of the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (Global-EGD) contract starting Sept. 1, 2014. This renewal builds on our years of...
DigitalGlobe Launches New Maps API and Portal for Developers
WESTMINSTER, Colo., Aug. 13, 2015—DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions, today announced a new product focused on the growing community of location-aware...
Sentinel-2 Delivers First Images
June 29, 2015—Just four days after being lofted into orbit, Europe’s Sentinel-2A satellite delivered its first images of Earth, offering a glimpse of the ‘colour vision’ that it will provide for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. With a swath...
Intergraph Government Solutions Debuts Cloud-based Geospatial Exploitation Solution
MADISON, Ala., June 22, 2015 - Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation, a Hexagon company, serving the U.S. federal market, has unveiled a comprehensive, cloud-based solution for visualizing, analyzing and...
3D Modeling Capability Offers New Perspectives and Deeper Insight at the 2015 GEOINT Symposium
IRVINE, Calif. June 22, 2015 — 2d3 Sensing, an agile commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology provider specializing in the improvement, processing, exploitation, and dissemination of motion imagery and metadata, introduces a 3D modeling capability as part of the...
AllSource, BAE Systems to Extend Imagery Analysis Products into Commercial Markets
LONGMONT, Colo., June 19, 2015 — Commercial imagery intelligence company AllSource Analysis and BAE Systems, one of the world’s largest aerospace and defense contractors, today announced a strategic alliance to bring multi-source imagery analysis products and...
GeoNorth Expands Capabilities and Formerly Announces Its Imagery Coordination Center
Anchorage, Alaska, June 12, 2015 — GeoNorth, LLC (www.geonorth.com), specializing in the development of integrated solutions for end-to-end geospatial decision-making, is formally announcing the operational readiness of its Imagery Coordination Center (ICC). The...
Urban Challenge Looking for Innovators
Munich, June 11, 2015 — The quality of satellite imagery is improving year by year, to the point where it is now possible to read signage and see line markings clearly. Not only has there been an improvement in visual resolution now satellites like WorldView-2 and...
