Remote Sensing and GEOINT

David Cruickshank from SAP's Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) describes in his blog the architecture of how SAP users can perform geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) analysis using both SAP's HANA in-memory database with a workflow to Esri's ArcGIS. Some of the workflow is explained as follows: SAP NS2...

On April 12, 2013, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) reached its final orbit, 705 kilometers (438 miles) above Earth. One week later, the satellite's natural-color imager scanned a swath of land 185-kilometers wide and 9,000 kilometers long (120 by 6,000 miles)--an unusual, unbroken...

UC Berkeley researchers tapped satellite imagery to locate warmer communities. They then used U.S. Census figures to determined who lived in those areas. The conclusion, published this week in the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives: Heat-prone neighborhoods were disproportionately...

What's the MapBox team been up to? Well, yesterday.... Not only did we just launch our new Cloudless Atlas imagery for the entire world (down through zoom level 8), we also launched new aerial imagery for the entire US and EU down to zoom level 19. Everything is traceable in OpenStreetMap,...

Satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe has received word from its principal U.S. government customer [National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NGA] that the company’s centerpiece imagery-delivery contract will not suffer from the mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration that are sweeping...

A man's car had flipped leaving him well offroad in cold Saskatchewan on Thursday night. He called Canadia 911, but traditional manned aircraft could not locate him. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched a Draganflyer X4-ES helicopter drone near the last known coordinates from his cell...

Rutgers students not ony built an app to track Sandy debris in Toms River, New Jersey, they went into the field to use it. It was aimed at determing households eligible for the township's demolition and debris removal program.  They created a smart phone app in their Community Mapping class...

Bryan Ware, writing at CTO Vision, details how the Boston Marathon bombing were a “big data” event. He's the CTO of Haystax Technology, a new analytics company focused on the defense and intelligence sector.  And offers this important discalimer: Disclaimer: These observations are made from...

The Defence Signals Directorate and the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation, two Australian defense agencies, are getting new names to better reflect what they do. The new names do not include "Defence" in them:   Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) , Australian...

IF Nearmap chief Simon Crowther was offered $1 every time someone asked the listed aerial mapping outfit why it was mad enough to take on Google Maps, he would be rich enough to buy the California-based giant. As the patient Crowther explains, Nearmap's business plan -- based on...