Tempe, Ariz., Mar 23, 2010 – Aerials Express, a leading international provider of high-resolution digital imagery, announced that comprehensive color infrared aerial coverage will be available with its North American imagery products. Offering high resolution color infrared imagery allows users to expand the utility of their aerial imagery, including environmental analysis and land-use classification. The enhanced product will be available as a seamless regional mosaic or as localized areas of interest.

Aerials Express uses the latest digital camera platforms to collect high resolution RGB imagery content simultaneously with color infrared content across North America. Both datasets are processed as orthorectified seamless mosaics, meaning that users can view the two datasets interchangeably for analysis and mapping purposes. As a result of the company’s aggressive imagery acquisition schedule, the collected color infrared offers a current perspective of the landscape better representing the situation on the ground.

“Our extensive coverage of the United States, Canada, and Mexico makes this offering of current and high resolution color infrared imagery unprecedented in the geospatial industry.” offered Luke Pritchard, General Manager of Aerials Express.

Once used predominantly in the agriculture industry for crop monitoring and harvest projections, color infrared now has a diversified function for geospatial analysts. Color infrared is now commonly used in a broad range of environmental monitoring practices including: urban forestry, soil stability, water contamination tracking, greenhouse emissions monitoring and golf course management. It is also frequently utilized for land-use and infrastructure inventory due to the visual distinctiveness generated between manmade surfaces. Due to the wave length divergence between non-porous surfaces such as cement and asphalt and porous organic surfaces such as lawns and agricultural land-uses, surface types are easier to distinguish, improving visual and automated assessments.

Aerials Express color infrared imagery products are available to a variety of consumers including civil agencies, real estate, environmental, transportation, and resource development service firms. Easy to use imagery viewing and mapping software DataDoors Desktop™ is also provided along with the imagery, enabling customers of all skill levels to smoothly incorporate imagery products into their business processes.

About Aerials Express:
Aerials Express is a global leader in current high-resolution digital aerial and satellite imagery. Our commitment to current off-the-shelf imagery means an accessible and effective source of high resolution geospatial information for commercial, real estate, engineering, energy, navigation and government sectors. Aerials Express recognizes the importance of accurate, up-to-date information, and our business is built on the idea that current imagery is the cornerstone of accurate geographic decision-making and representation. For more information, please visit www.aerialsexpress.com.