[talk-ph] USGS Now Offers OrbView-3 High-Resolution Images for Free

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

This is great!

Are the images already georectified? And how much of the Philippines
have such imagery?

While the imagery is not as high as we would like, this is much, much
better than Landsat for tracing rivers, coastlines, and roads.
(Assuming the imagery is in the public domain and not just freely
available.)


On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:41 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> From the post:
> The U.S. Geological Survey has partnered with GeoEye to provide
> OrbView-3 one-meter satellite images from between 2003 and 2007 for
> free download via the USGS EarthExplorer. You may recall that the
> OrbView-3 satellite was put out of service in 2007 due to a
> malfunction of electronics, and has since been guided to a controlled
> reentry in the Pacific Ocean.
>
> http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/usgs-now-offers-orbview-3-high-resolution-images-for-free.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SpatialSustain+%28Spatial+Sustain%29
>
> The resolution is not of street level resolution but the imagery is
> still useful for various applications.  I've seen several good ones in
> the Philippines.
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning