Military transport aircraft require highly advanced engines which can carry the heavy payload to long distance. This combination engine stamina and strength has been achieved by only four companies in the world. There of these are western companies The fourth is a Russian firm. There has been speculations for long on such aircraft being developed… Continue reading GeoEye-1 image takes lid off secret Chinese plane
Heavy snow blanketed most of Great Britain territory in late January 2013, stretching from London to the northern tip of Scotland. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image on January 26, 2013. Only some coastal areas and the southwestern part of the island were free of snow when… Continue reading Image of the Day – Snow Covered Great Britain
ALOS has collected more that 6 Million 5 Hundred Thousand imagees in the past 5 years by observing same area repeatedly. Based on this rich archived data, we have launched a “ALOS Sales Campaign” aiming at the areas covered by multiple images. Optimum for identifying chronological changes of forest, change detection and inspection after occurrence… Continue reading ALOS Sales campaign, 20% off !
The Chagos Archipelago, also known as the Chagos Islands, is a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean, the largest of which is Diego Garcia. The islands forming the Chagos Archipelago are administered by the United Kingdom as the British Indian Ocean Territory (the “BIOT”). Landsat Satellite image of Diego Garcia Landsat Satellite image of… Continue reading Image of the Day : Diego Garcia
The Mojave Airport was opened in 1935 to serve local gold and silver mining industry. It was taken over by U S marine Corps which expanded it into Marine Corps Auxiliary Air Station(MCAAS). It also served as training gunnery training center during World War II. Currently it is known as Mojave Air and Space Port.… Continue reading Image of the Day : Mojave Airport
A new Earth imaging satellite launch generally means breaking barriers of technology and pushing the envelope to cover more space more efficiently. Since the first near-space photographs from US made V2, the technology has progressed at a very fast pace especially since the launch of first sub-meter civilian spacing imaging satellite Ikonos-2. Ikonos-2 was launched… Continue reading Musings on GeoEye-2
Two leading providers of earth observation and geospatial analysis, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye, have finalized their combination. Since their announcement about intention to merge last year, the amalgamation has finally came through with approval of Department of Justice and the shareholders. The cash and stock deal was worth about $453 million. The company will trade on… Continue reading DigitalGlobe and GeoEye have combined
Launched on 2nd December 2012, Pleiades 1B, the twin counterpart of Pleiades 1A, has finally completed the commissioning phase. The satellite sensor is now operating normally. Pleiades 1A and Pleiades 1B form a true constellation that offers more frequent revisit opportunity that any other satellite constellation in it category. The Pléiades constellation is designed to… Continue reading Pléiades 1B starts Commercial Collections
This GeoEye-1 satellite image of Kennedy Space Center image was taken before the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery which is one of the retired satellite orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States,and was operational from its maiden flight, STS-41-D on August 30, 1984, until its final landing… Continue reading Image of the Day : Kennedy Space Center
A new term doing rounds of Remote Sensing circles is Enhanced Line Rate imagery. What actually is Enhanced Line Rate? Pushbroom sensors such as IKONOS acquire data using a line of sensors arranged perpendicular to the flight direction of the spacecraft. It is a large focal plane detector array, capable of generating thousands of line… Continue reading Enhanced Line Rate imagery