Remote Sensing Tidbits
India plans to use remotely sensed imagery to determine the exact number of slums in the country in order to provide housing and thus wipe out slums within five year. So far states have been slow in getting their input back to organizers, limiting progress.
The Queensland Government has noted vegetation mapping errors that mis-assess the type of crop in the Isis region of south-east Queensland. “The Department of Environment and Resource Management vegetation management director, Peter Burton, says satellite imagery of orchards or dense green pastures caused anomalies.” Farmers are upset because these data set the value of their lands.
- ABC
There’s a nice feature on Agri ImaGIS (a North Dakota company) which has been using satellite imagery (Landsat) for 16 years to provide ag information for a variety of uses. What’s new in 2010? Instead of providing imagery every 16 days, as Landsat does, the company plans to make imagery available every five to seven days, by tapping into other birds’ imagery, though the article does not say which. Using commercial imagery from DigitalGlobe or GeoEye would certainly bump up prices from using Landsat. I will note that it’s nice to see a ag imaging business still making it after so many failed.
