Blom has renewed and extended the existing agreement with Microsoft to 2014. The agreement allows Microsoft the right to use Blom’s database of oblique aerial images – RealImages™. The RealImages™ database is based on Pictometry technology, and is an extensive library of oblique aerial images, covering more than 1,100 cities in Europe. The contract has …

At IIT-Kanpur a team of students, working under Dr NS Vyas and other faculty members of the institute, have successfully made the India’s first nano-satellite to be developed by any educational institute. Weighing less than three kg and with most functionalities of a normal satellite on a small platform, the payload of the satellite will …

LizardTech announced the newest release of LiDAR Compressor, which enables users to turn giant point cloud data sets into efficient MrSID files. This latest release, version 1.1, offers improved lossless compression performance, better data quality for lossy compression and many other user interface improvements.
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Bluesky has signed a reseller agreement with Landmark. The deal will see UK’s largest collection of historically important commercial aerial photographs being made available through the Envirocheck website further helping professional users to make informed decisions based on comprehensive environmental site assessment information. The million plus photographs, from Bluesky’s Old Aerial Photos archive, date back …

RapidEye announced that it has imaged the area next to the epicentre of the heavy 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile. The images cover a total area of 13,125 km² and show the most damaged area around the city of Concepción. In order to be able to run change detection analyses, RapidEye also has images available of …

Brazil and China have agreed to launch the fourth China Brazil Environmental Remote Sensing (CBERS) satellite in 2011. At the initial phase (1988-2003), two satellites, CBERS-1 and CBERS-2, were sent into space. The most significant feature of this agreement was the transfer of more responsibility to the Brazilians. China was responsible for 70 percent of …

SPOT 4 satellite operations have been resumed after orbital parameters corrections. Regular imaging and data transmission from SPOT 4 satellite was suspended in December 2009 for correction of orbital parameters. An orbital manoeuvre of SPOT 4 was required due to the approach of two operational satellites SPOT 4 and SPOT 5 flying the similar sun-synchronous …

The Sri Lankan Government has completed mapping of all forests in the country except in the Northern region barring encroachments by unauthorized persons, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said. All forests were mapped out and boundary stones were laid to prevent any encroachments in the future. The mapping out of forests in …

One of the priority tasks of Ukraine’s state policy in the sphere of space activity is to form groups of remote Earth-sensing satellites consisting of 11 spacecraft in orbit by 2030, according to a plan for state policy in the sphere of space activity until 2030, which has been introduced for public discussion by the …

The ESA is to launch a satellite to investigate the Earth’s ice fields and map ice thickness over water and land. ESA’s ice mission satellite CryoSat will be placed into orbit 700 km above Earth by a Russian Dnepr rocket. CryoSat will be the third of ESA’s Earth Explorer satellites in orbit, following on from …