Most Extensive Collection of High-Resolution Global Imagery Now Available Online LONGMONT, Colo., and SAN DIEGO, Aug. 5
LONGMONT, Colo., and SAN DIEGO, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- At the annual ESRI
International User Conference, DigitalGlobe today announced the release of
ImageConnect: Global, the most extensive online collection of high-resolution
International imagery available in the world. This new offering provides
instant online access to 30.5 million sq km2 of premium imagery with in-depth
coverage of 36 countries worldwide, much of which is not available through
other web services or commercial portals. This new subscription service
provides GIS professionals with a direct plug-in to a consistent source of
accurate, high-resolution global imagery constantly updated with new images
collected from DigitalGlobe's sub-meter constellation of high-resolution
satellites and aerial networks.
With historical and current views from a single high-resolution source,
GIS professionals gain increased confidence in the quality and accuracy of
their GIS imagery based projects, allowing them to fully leverage online
distributed imagery for precision mapping, government programs and
infrastructure projects worldwide. ImageConnect: Global gives people who need
to visualize assets and their surrounding environment the ability to integrate
a constant flow of advanced imagery into any ongoing project instead of having
to seek imagery providers for individual projects or manage multiple data
sources and their associated technical inconsistencies and cost
inefficiencies.
Demand from professionals, governments, defense, navigation and
application developers for web delivery of premium, highly accurate imagery
has been growing. DigitalGlobe is rising to meet this demand by increasingly
making its extensive ImageLibrary, with over 400 million sq km2 of imagery,
accessible via online services such as ImageConnect: Global. "Understanding
land use, mapping and infrastructure development in many global markets relies
upon real world perspectives only achievable through satellite imagery
sources," said Marc Tremblay, senior vice president of DigitalGlobe's
Commercial Business Unit. "With our strategic worldwide collection
capabilities and online services we are well-suited to provide GIS users,
businesses and governments with a broad set of imagery content and mapping
solutions."
Subscribers to ImageConnect: Global gain better insights into their image
views with extensive metadata including acquisition date, resolution, accuracy
and a worldfile. In addition, users can select from a range of projections
and image acquisition dates to better fit the specific needs of their
projects.
The initial ImageConnect: Global offering includes 36 countries including
UK, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore,
India, Brazil, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Mexico, with more nations rolling out
in the coming months.
For more information about ImageConnect: Global visit:
http://www.digitalglobe.com/start/imageconnectglobal.com.
About DigitalGlobe
Longmont, Colorado-based DigitalGlobe (http://www.digitalglobe.com) is a
leading global content provider of high-resolution world imagery solutions.
Sourced from our own advanced satellite constellation and aerial network, our
imagery solutions deliver real world perspective to governments, businesses,
technology developers and humanitarian associations worldwide. The company's
imagery solutions consist of one of the world's largest image libraries,
growing at a rate of up to 1 million square kilometers per day and distributed
and accessed through online search and retrieval, production ready image
layers, development tool-kits for internet enabled applications and devices,
and software solutions for integration with GIS products and services.
DigitalGlobe currently operates the highest-resolution commercial satellite
constellation with QuickBird and the first of two next-generation satellites,
WorldView-1. The company plans to launch its second next-generation
satellite, WorldView-2 in the third quarter of 2009.
DigitalGlobe is a registered trademark of DigitalGlobe.
SOURCE DigitalGlobe
