Monday, March 23. 2009

DigitalGlobe,Geoeye Imagery Used for Search of Plane Wreck in Venezuela

Huntsville's AEgis Technologies is working with DigitalGlobe to try to find wreckage of a plane thought to be lost in Venezuela in February. An unfortunate miscommunication turned GeoEye into "Goi" in the coverage in the Huntsville Times.

[Bob] Edwards [who has been coordinating the search] said that in addition to Aegis, DigitalGlobe and Goi, another satellite imagery company, there are 50 volunteers nationwide who are analyzing the satellite images on their computers.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Oops, Remote Sensing, DigitalGlobe at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, January 21. 2009

DigitalGlobe Releases WorldView-1 Image of Inauguration

DigitalGlobe has released a WorldView-1 panchromatic image with .5 meter resolution of the Mall area during President Barack Obama's inauguration. The image below (click for larger image) is cropped to show just the Capitol Building. A full resolution scene is available for download at the DigitalGlobe website.

Posted by Joe Francica in Remote Sensing, DigitalGlobe at 09:15 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, January 20. 2009

DigitalGlobe, AEgis Release Images Prepared for Inauguration

DigitalGlobe and AEgis Technologies recently issued a press release regarding their partnership to develop ImageScape, a 3D imagery solution that generates virtual models of any location in the world. I covered this relationship in an article written on how these companies were creating images for NBC during the Olympics. For the inauguration, the two companies released sample ImageScape images available of the D.C. area, including the White House, and the Washington Monument. Images courtesy of DigitalGlobe and AEgis Technologies. See below (click each below for a larger image:

Posted by Joe Francica in Remote Sensing, DigitalGlobe, 3D at 15:21 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, October 21. 2008

Podcast: Protecting Ourselves from Geographic Data and Technologies

There's no question there's currently an abundance of location information out in the world. How do we "protect ourselves" from that very information and technologies? How much can we rely on automated systems to protect us from the dangers? How much must we do on our own? What types of protection do we not have that should be invented?

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in RFID, Tracking, Yahoo, LBS, Remote Sensing, Real-Time/Dynamic Data, Directions on the News Podcast, DigitalGlobe, Satellite Navigation, Navigation, Social Networking, Routing, Tracking, Logistics at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Monday, October 13. 2008

DigitalGlobe: Imagery on Consumer Portals=Advertising

Michael McCarthy, Senior Director of Business Development at DigitalGlobe made that point more than once during an interview on Friday. His point, I think, was to emphasize that while it was great that company's imagery now appears on both Google's and Microsoft's portals, the company is really in the business to business space.

That said, when discussing DigitalGlobe's first foray in geospatial portals in 2004, McCarthy described Google's pitch to the company this way: Google wanted to be our customer-facing distributer. At the time, he went on, it made sense to set up an exclusive arrangement. The recent "re-upping" of that contract is non-exclusive. Now, as McCarthy put it, it's time to be a "equal opportunity" provider. Recall the GeoEye's deal with Google for imagery is exclusive; Google is the only online portal to which imagery will be provided.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in DigitalGlobe at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Friday, October 3. 2008

Podcast: Google Hearts Tele Atlas, Tagging the Real World

Note: Technical difficulties prevented distribution of the podcast on Tuesday. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Last week Google announced it would use only Tele Atlas data for its mapping applications, effectively dropping NAVTEQ, now owned by Nokia. Is there a data war? Or perhaps a browser war? Also: Microsoft reveals its vision for a tagged real world even as a Japanese company shows off its implementation of that vision. Is it time for real world geotagging? Our editors tackle these questions in this week's discussion.

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, Microsoft, LBS, Real-Time/Dynamic Data, Directions on the News Podcast, DigitalGlobe, NAVTEQ at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |