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

[maning sambale]

The main challenge is how to process the data and serve as map tiles
for tracing.

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:44 AM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> cheers,
> maning
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