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The CHRIS satellite imager now celebrates 7 years' of scientific success of high resolution hyperspectral satellite imagery. The instrument has been so successful that an advanced variant is under development.
Read MoreThis astronaut photograph was acquired on October 21, 2008, with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera fitted with a 400 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 17 crew.
Read MoreAn agreement from a higher altitude describes DigitalGlobe and their contract with deCarta in which DigitalGlobe will provide deCarta’s geospatial platform customers access to its premium, high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery.
Read MoreGood synergy, if you're not too tired of trendy terminology, but that's what best describes DigitalGlobe and NAVTEQ announcing a new relationship aimed at providing better support to the thousands of software developers using NAVTEQ map data who want to include high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery from DigitalGlobe in their applications.
Read MoreGeoEye, 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.
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