Landsat Data Continuity Mission or Landsat 8 has been long awaited since the failure of the Scan Line Corrector onboard the Landsat ETM+ satellite sensor, just 4 years after its launch in 1999. There was 22% data loss in each scene which severely affected efforts on Climate change and various other Environmental studies. NASA was… Continue reading Landsat 8 and Landsat 7 comparison, First Look
On the first day of February we did a post on merger of DigitalGlobe and GeoEye. You can see it here. Market capitalization of the merged entity is $2.1 billion. The new entity, still named DigitalGlobe, is in the course of merging processes, products and pricing. In order to systematically tackle the complexity of merger… Continue reading Post Merger DigitalGlobe announces ‘Bridge’ Pricing
The 50,000 ton Italian cruise ship, Costa Concordia, which ran aground last year due to error made by its Captain was righted after massive salvage efforts by a team of engineers and mariners. This has been the most expensive salvage operation in marine history. The very high resolution Pleiades satellite, captured the refloating on 17… Continue reading Pleiades Captures Massive Salvage Operation of Costa Concordia
DigitalGlobe Basemap +Metro is high resolution orthophoto product for customers who need spatial data of major capitals and major cities of the world with population over 2 million. It is an easy access to world`s most important cities according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. DG uses its high resolution satellites and third party… Continue reading Nearest Coffee shop to remotest oil rig , Digitalglobe Basemaps covers it all for its customers(Part 2)