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

[maning sambale]

According to the news article:
"The initial data format available is GeoEye’s Basic Enhanced (L1B)
product. Processing is underway for terrain corrected (L1Gst) product,
and eventually t
the entire data set will be processed to the L1Gst level."

We can wait for the L1Gst processing to get the systematically terrain
corrected product.
> Are the images already georectified?

Based on my initial eye-balling not very extensive coverage.  However,
Orbview-3's repeat cycle is ~ 3 days, I suspect they have a lot of
data acquired for the 4 years it was in operation.
> And how much of the Philippines
> have such imagery?


AFAIK, all imagery from USGS servers are free without any restriction.
> (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



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maning
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