Monthly Archives: February 2011

New GeoEye High Resolution Imagery Released of Pearl Square Manama, Bahrain

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A new image of the GeoEye-1 collection of Pearl Square Manama, Bahrain has just been released on the GeoEye website.

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Google and GeoEye: Images from Christchurch – High Resolution Imagery Featured in Article

New satellite imagery available from our partners at GeoEye.

High Resolution Imagery of Christchurch was taken on Thursday, February 24th from the GeoEye-1 satellite. Some parts are covered in clouds but substantial portions of the central business district are clearly visible. Remember to turn the layer on and off to compare it with our previous imagery, which is from March 2009…

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Salas y Gómez Expedition: The Sunken Cathedral – GeoEye is Elevating Insight on NATGEO Blog

Salas y Gómez has revealed some of its secrets, but also raised some questions. We conducted three dives today in quite difficult conditions. The swell was large and when we were doing our shallow work, it moved us up and down as though we were in a washing machine.

Our first dive was at a reef off the southeast corner of the island. We spotted this site because of the tremendous waves breaking on top of it. (You can actually see the break in the high-resolution satellite imagery of the island on Google Earth and GeoEye obtained for the expedition.)

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5 Great User Created Maps Chronicling Egypt – GeoEye High Resolution Imagery Featured in Article

During the crisis in Egypt, third-party Geo developers helped the international community understand the situation and keep persons affected by the crisis safe through the use of innovative new tools. These same tools can be replicated by anyone in any crisis situation. In the developer examples below, three things jump out as particularly striking: How quickly these maps were built and put into action, some within hours of the first protests; how developers (many contributing independently) from all over the world worked together to get these maps up and running; and how geo-context has become extremely important for the international community in understanding and responding to any crisis, be it natural or man-made.

GeoEye Tahrir Square Imagery. The imagery above is of Tahrir Square on January 29, 2011 at around 10:30am local time from more than 400 miles above. This imagery is exclusively viewable in Google Earth (and the Earth API) using the historical imagery tool. The imagery highlights GeoEye‘s stunning ability to respond to world events and capture timely imagery…

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High Resolution Imagery Available on GeoEye Facebook Fan Page

Check out GeoEye‘s high resolution imagery in the 2011 and 2010 GeoEye Calendar and HAWX2 Video Game Galleries on our newly created Facebook Fan Page. Images include: the Burj Khalifa, Takla Makan Desert, Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, the Canary Islands, and Jet fighters battling it out above dramatic mountainous terrain in Tom Clancy’s HAWX2 to name a few. While you are there, become a fan of GeoEye on Facebook!

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Custom Products – GeoEye Production Services Showcased

Custom Processing. GeoEye‘s custom processing services provide products derived from IKONOS and OrbView-3 imagery designed to meet specialized client needs. These services use a variety of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) software and proprietary utilities, including ArcGIS, Erdas Imagine, and SocetSet.

Frequent requests include file formatting for Geo and Ortho products and custom tiling based on a tonally adjusted orthomosaic. All support files, such as metadata, headers, world files, Shapefiles (usually component), and JPEGs, are updated or re-generated to reflect any changes made to the base product. Files are named using standard conventions, but file-naming conventions can be changed based on need…

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Krait Bay, Australia – GeoEye is Elevating Insight with High Resolution Imagery

Check out an Ocean Eddy off Krait Bay, Australia. Eddies form when a bend in the ocean current separates and makes a loop. In the Southern Hemisphere, cold water eddies rotate clockwise and warm water eddies rotate counterclockwise. The size of eddies and their rings vary as do their lifetimes—lasting between a month to over a year. Eddies are usually detected with ocean temperature and current instruments, but can also be detected by sight as in this image. GeoEye-1 .50-meter resolution collected 10 April 2009.

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Structures Built at Second N. Korea Launch Site – GeoEye High Resolution Imagery Featured in CNN Article

Washington (CNN) — North Korea has completed the structures at a second missile launch site in the northwest part of the country, a U.S. official said Thursday.

The admission comes on the same day that new satellite imagery, taken by GeoEye on January 10, was released showing a tower, a movable launch pad and swing arms, according to an analysis by Globalsecurity.org…

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U.S. Sees N. Korea Provocations but not Missile Test – GeoEye High Resolution Imagery Featured in Article

(Reuters) – North Korea shows no signs it will test a missile soon, but succession politics in Pyongyang point to new provocative acts “in months and not years,” the commander of U.S. military forces in the Pacific said on Thursday.

A satellite image courtesy of GeoEye shows the Tongchang-dong Missile and Space Launch Facility (lower center) in North Korea, January 10, 2011. Credit: Reuters/GeoEye

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Act Locally in Sudan with New Imagery & Maps – GeoEye Information Services Featured on Google Blog

We are encouraging users to add their local knowledge to this mapping effort through a campaign to build a better map of Sudan. Recent satellite imagery is key to building up-to-date maps, and we are continuously acquiring fresh and historical imagery of Sudan. Our latest imagery update is now live on Google Map Maker, Google Earth, and Google Maps, with nearly fifty percent of the UN priority areas over Southern Sudan covered with high resolution imagery. Thanks to our satellite partner GeoEye, we will continue to acquire and publish high resolution imagery of the remaining UN priority areas, as well as to refresh areas that we have previously covered as the need arises. This new imagery, such as the one over Melut, will directly benefit the many organizations working in Sudan and ultimately support the building of a solid basemap of Sudan to achieve long-term socioeconomic objectives…

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