Government agencies are increasingly turning to high-precision aerial imagery to solve city-planning conundrums. Three recent case studies show how emergency 9-1-1 services gather data to provide updated maps to emergency services to get to the right locations as soon as…
Photo: NASA I was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing on July 16 and our focus on mapping this month to look into imagery of the Moon. Only recently have we learned that the lunar orbiters that…
Planet’s Deven Desai explains how Planet uses satellite imagery to uncover data for the oil and gas industry, as well as for road detection, at the 2019 Esri User Conference in San Diego. GPS World
A capture of the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens in Buffalo, New York, taken in May 2018. (Image: Nearmap) Fresh off an eye-grabbing appearance showcasing its new 3D products at last week’s Esri User Conference, Nearmap will deliver a…
Where are baseball stadiums in the world? Where are all the windmills on Earth? Or oil derricks? How about baseball stadiums? You could scan through the millions of satellite images snapped by hundreds of satellites now circling the planet. Or…
