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20 items tagged "Sensing"
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Seeking Alpha: Buy GeoEye Now!
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 3:02pm CEST
Tags: Remote Sensing
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Remote Sensing for Slimy Pools in Northern California
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:00pm CEST
Tags: Remote Sensing
Aerial imagery will be used to track neglected pools and ponds in Santa Clara County in the coming weeks. It's part of Vector Control, aka urban mosquito control, to prevent the spread of West Nile Virus. Planes start flying today. No word on if the imagery is reviewed manually or processed, but this is the third year it's been done. If a slimy pool/pond is found, owners are encouraged by the county to clean them up. The public responds well and to date the $1000/day fine has not been imposed.
- NBC 11
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UAE Plans Remote Sensing Satellite
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 1:00pm CEST
Tags: Remote Sensing
The Inquirer reports that the UAE is planning to launch a remote sensing satellite. Details are sketchy, but the paper reports:
[Senior military official from UAE] Brigadier Khalifa Mohammad Al Rumaithi, told Gulf News of plans to launch a satellite in conjunction with other GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE).
Speaking at the Defence Geospatial Intelligence conference, the UAEs Chief of Military Works at the Armed Forces, noted that a lot of progress has already been made on the Satellite, dubbed Dubai sat1, which the UAE says is for peaceful and civilian purposes only.
It will purportedly be able to help the country with urban development planning and infrastructure by providing accurate maps and be useful in management of potential natural disasters. It's not for spying, honest.
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KiwImage Contract Signed
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 1:00pm CEST
Tags: Remote Sensing
"The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) signed a contract with Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Ltd (SKM) at Defence House in Wellington today as part of the KiwImage project." The project entails gathering 60 centimeter imagery for the two main islands and others New Zealand controls. Where will the image come from? I think DigitalGlobe, though the article says "Global Image."
- Scoop.nz -
UK's Yotta Acquires US-based Mobile Video
Posted: April 29th, 2008, 1:00pm CEST
Tags: Remote Sensing
The deal ran $4 million and opens the door to US growth for Yotta, a technology group Oxford Metrics plc. Yotta is leading the way in highway imaging in the UK. It aims to support highway departments and mapping organizations around the world. Who is Mobile Video?
Mobile Video, which was founded in 1986 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri, captures geospatial images of properties for tax administrators, GIS departments and the emergency services. It employs some 40 staff operating a fleet of 16 field vehicles across the US, and manages several contracts with local government agencies.
- M and A Deals
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Toward the Killer App for Imagery?
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 1:15pm CEST
Tags: Remote Sensing
Years ago I interviewed imagery guy Gerry Kinn (then at EMERGE, now at ESRI) about the killer apps for aerial and satellite imagery. He told me a story of how you'd go into the Home Depot (or the like) and the clerk would use an imagery based app to determine how much fertilizer you needed for your lawn. I think we are a getting there!
Enter Sungevity. The company uses imagery (from MS Virtual Earth since it need the obliques from Pictometry) along with information from one's electric bill to estimate the return on installing solar panels, which the company sells and installs. The "no visit" estimate cuts time and cost from an implementation.
The company's secret sauce is a trigonometry-heavy application that can take satellite imagery and create a 3D model of a house. From the model, Sungevity calculates the pitch of the roof, the azimuth (for instance, where the house faces in relation to compass points) and the available area.
"You introduce errors when you put a guy on the roof," Kennedy asserted.
Sungevity uses data from Microsoft Virtual Earth rather than Google Earth for its satellite imagery. Google Earth only provides a top-down view of a roof. Virtual Earth gives data from different angles, which lets Sungevity calculate pitch.
Currently working California, the company hopes to go nationwide. One mail campaign will include an image of the resident's house with some quick math to determine potential effectiveness.
- C|net
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Why did DigitalGlobe's going public push up GeoEye's stock price?
Posted: April 16th, 2008, 1:24pm CEST
Tags: Remote Sensing
That's the question at Motley Fool. GeoEye was up some 9% yesterday. Rich Smith doesn't understand why. He suggests that it's not good news for GeoEye since now it has a direct competitor for easy to get capital where before it was the only game in U.S. satellite companies for investment. -
GeoEye Non-News and Real News
Posted: April 7th, 2008, 1:00pm CEST
Tags: Remote Sensing
The Motley Fool helped me sort these out:
First off, last week GeoEye put out a press release noting what appeared to be a new deal with Mitsubishi to resell its imagery. It wasn't - it was the continuation of an existing deal. The stock price rose 9%.
Second, and this is the real news: the company apparently didn't know when its ownership changed back in 2005. I don't fully understand the legalize, but it seems to mean the company owes a bunch of back taxes: $15.8 million. -
The Register Weighs in on Blue Dasher
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 2:16pm CEST
Tags: Remote Sensing
The Register doesn't see the application of the latest offering to collect spherical images of a city from a five camera array sticking out of a car roof. "...it seems like using a technological sledgehammer to crack a nut." Still the paper does concede it could be useful for law enforcement. -
Congress Research Service: DHS Should Rethink Using Spy Satellites for Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement
Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 1:00pm CEST
Tags: Remote Sensing
A new report from the Congressional Research Service suggests Congress should further evaluate if the Homeland Security Departments plan to use domestic spy satellites for counterterrorism and law enforcement. The question is if the plan is worth "the cost and the risks to privacy."
- Washington Technology -
Blue Dasher, the next Immersive Media?
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 2:39pm CEST
Tags: Remote Sensing
Joe Francica noted Blue Dasher the other day when we chatted. The company has come out of the shadows in conjunction with CTIA and is the heart of an article in the Miami Herald. Welcome to another player in the "photograph my street and put it on a website/mobile/nav device arena! Already in: Immersive Media, Everyscape and others. Blue Dasher will offer up in photo ads for businesses, but outside that, I'm not sure of it competitive differentiator. -
DigitalGlobe Spinoff EarthMap Acquired by Monsanto
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 1:22pm CET
Tags: Remote Sensing
I just caught wind of this acquisition which occurred in January but was announced March 14. EarthMap owns the IP from Resource21 and serves the ag market with remote sensing technology. Several ex-DigitalGlobe employees launched EarthMap as a spinoff in 2004. Monsanto's been a customer of the 7 person shop and now owns the people and tech. Recall that another ag-focussed geo-biz, GeoVantage, went to John Deere in recent years.
- Boulder County Business -
Popular Science offers Animations of How GeoEye-1 Works
Posted: March 14th, 2008, 3:18pm CET
Tags: Remote Sensing
There's a detailed illustration and step by step details of what will happen up to when imagery is different. On the next page those steps are animated in a Flash demo. The article mentions a spring launch, but we expect an August or later launch. -
Podcast: Report to NGA, NRO Questions Commercial Remote Sensing Mission
Posted: March 4th, 2008, 8:00am CET
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Tags: Remote Sensing
The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) commission the report titled, "Independent Study of the Roles of Commercial Remote Sensing in the future National System for Geospatial-Intelligence" early last year. It explores four possible business cases for how the government and private companies might work together to provide needed imagery for those agencies and their government clients. The suggested path is not the status quo and may have implications for the two current U.S. commercial satellite providers DigtialGlobe and GeoEye. Our editors try to tease out what the report means and its implications.
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Two Oblique Imaging Systems from Alachua County, FL
Posted: March 3rd, 2008, 1:00pm CET
Tags: Remote Sensing
The Alachua County Property Appraiser Ed Crapo signed a nearly $200,000 deal in May to acquire Multivision's oblique imagery for the county. Just two weeks earlier, the county's Growth Management Department bought similar technology, at about half the cost, from Pictometry. There are allegations of conflicts of interest, and a lawsuit between the vendors. Most people seem to agree that the duplicate systems are not needed.
- The Gainesville Sun -
Remote Sensing Suggest Link Between Light at Night and Breast Cancer
Posted: February 21st, 2008, 2:51pm CET
Tags: Remote Sensing
Update: Here are the details, via the Washington Post
"By no means are we saying that light at night is the only or the major risk factor for breast cancer," said Itai Kloog, of the University of Haifa in Israel, who led the new work. "But we found a clear and strong correlation that should be taken into consideration."
The report is in this week's online issue of the journal Chronobiology International.
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"Using NASA satellite imagery to plot high emissions of light at night, researchers found breast cancer rates were as much as 60-percent higher in high-light areas than in darker ones."
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How satellites saved the world
Posted: February 20th, 2008, 3:15pm CET
Tags: Remote Sensing
MSNBC offers up the article with that title and explores the satellite "shoot down" and the history of earth observation, one topic being addressed the AAAS meetings this week in Boston. -
TopSat Microsatellite Helps with Disaster Relief After African Earthquake in Early Feburary
Posted: February 20th, 2008, 3:07pm CET
Tags: Remote Sensing
Response to a February 3 earthquake in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo include e imagery captured by TopSat. TopSat is a micro-satellite built by a consortium of UK companies.
Disaster relief operations being led by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs relies on the free imagery. In November 2007 QinetiQ, the lead on the project, agreed to include TopSat in the International "Space and Major Disasters" Charter, making it available for this type of work. The UN activated the Charter on Feb 6.
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Oblique Aerials Support Tornado-affected Areas
Posted: February 18th, 2008, 6:06pm CET
Tags: Remote Sensing
Marty Sellers of Sellers Photography provided the following information:
Rob Perrin of Jackson, TN has vertically photographed the tornado track through Jackson TN, stitched the images and created a movie on his website where viewers can follow along the path.
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Large Scale Weed Mapping via Landsat
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 1:50pm CET
Tags: Remote Sensing
"No-one has ever attempted to map weeds using remote sensing technology on such a large scale before," reports Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries, Tim Mulherin of Queensland, Australia's efforts.
The weed in question is lantana which is among the 20 "weeds of national significance." It forms dense areas so ground observations are limited. Thus the use of satellite imagery and GIS.
- North Queensland Register