“It seems that, within the US government and elsewhere, there are agencies that want to have more and more access more times a day over the areas that they care about,” Jim Thomason, VP of Imagery Product at Planet told me in an interview this week.
By Theresa HitchensMaxar will provide updates and enhancements using “its sophisticated change detection model and deliver land cover and classification solutions.”
By Theresa Hitchens“[T]he trend is that a larger percentage of our work will be able to be accomplished using commercial systems than in the past,” says Gauthier.
By Theresa HitchensNGA’s Global EGD program is a good example of how the 2017 bifurcation of authority over commercial remote sensing acquisition between the NGA and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) — a transition that remains somewhat troubled –is supposed to work.
By Theresa HitchensWASHINGTON: Australia used both black and white and multispectral satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe satellites shot on March 16 to search for the purported wreckage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. A source familiar with the issues said DigitalGlobe supplied several types of imagery other than the black and white satellite photos. The Australians used multispectral but…
By Colin Clark