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GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) has signed a multi-year agreement with Rome-based Telespazio S.p.A., appointing Telespazio as GeoEye's new Commercial Regional Affiliate for the region of Europe and North Africa.
Read MoreImagine a piece of history being hidden for as much as 2,000 only to be detected by a new remote sensing technology that peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid.
Read MoreThe first public release of a RapidEye image has now been unveiled on the company's website. This demo image highlights the capabilities of RapidEye imagery in many market segments by showing diverse landscapes that include agricultural fields, forests, cities and roads.
Read MoreGeologists have long known that rocks layers are usually deposited onto the land surface in a certain order. Older layers of rock usually reside on the bottom and newer layers of rock on the top. Every so often, however, geologic investigations turn up situations where this principle of superposition is reversed.
Read MoreDriven by powerful Santa Ana winds, wildfires raged near Los Angeles, California, in mid-September 2008. Not only did the winds fan the fires’ flames, they also sent the smoke far out to sea.
Read MoreEUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 65th Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on October 9th.
Read MoreA rare series of events occurred early Tuesday morning, October 7, as asteroid 2008 TC3 hit Earth releasing a huge amount of light and energy before exploding in the atmosphere over northern Sudan. Even better is that amazingly, the Meteosat-8 Rapid Scanning Service managed to capture the impact.
Read MoreGeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) has released the first, color half-meter ground resolution image taken from its recently launched GeoEye-1 satellite.
Read MoreWhere would we be without agriculture and specific regions described as the "the cereal, bread, salad and fruit bowls" of the world? In an effort to be even more productive PCI Geomatics, software and solutions developer for geospatial imaging applications, will provide technology and training services to support its soil survey projects at 1:20000 and 1:50000 scale of the Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI).
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