DigitalGlobe Produces the World’s First Complete and Consistent High Resolution Satellite Imagery Base Map of Africa
28 April 2015 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of
high-resolution earth imagery and geospatial solutions, today
announced the general availability of its Basemap +Vivid product
for the entire African continent. Keeping pace with the rapid
evolution of mapping technology, this is the first time that a
complete, consistent satellite imagery base layer with 50 cm ground
resolution has been available for Africa.
Many parts of Africa have never been mapped at this resolution
from space, and never before has there been a complete imagery base
map of Africa with this level of detail. While 50 cm satellite
imagery for Africa has been available since 2008, it previously
only covered smaller areas of interest. To meet the rapidly growing
needs of our customers, DigitalGlobe purposed our satellite
constellation to cover every country in Africa so we could build
and produce this unique offering for some of the most rapidly
growing economies in the world.
This Africa base map strives to maximize consistency and
completeness of the imagery, aligning to DigitalGlobe’s A3C quality
program. Whether zoomed out to view an entire country, or zoomed in
all the way down to view local vegetation, dwellings, and
infrastructure, the imagery looks the way a user expects the
earth’s surface to look. This uniformity helps local governments or
global development agencies to build out maps and value-added
information layers such as road vectors or population polygons for
the people they serve. For web-enabled mapping platforms and
location-based applications, users will stay immersed in their
experience and not be distracted by inconsistencies in the
imagery.
While businesses and governments have been leveraging satellite
imagery for years, many applications have been hampered by lower
resolution imagery or incomplete coverage over certain areas. Now
with Basemap +Vivid, DigitalGlobe can deliver a beautiful,
consistent, complete, geospatial-ready view of Africa.
“This is an important accomplishment in response to requests
from our customers to create a verifiable, authoritative base map
covering the entire continent,” said Hyune Hand, DigitalGlobe's
Senior Vice President for Product Marketing and Management. “Demand
continues to grow, fueled by both regional projects and programs
that require consistent quality coverage of an entire country.”
DigitalGlobe was in a unique position to develop this product
with the world’s most advanced constellation of commercial imaging
satellites and six years’ worth of sub-50 cm archive imagery. Not
only does DigitalGlobe have the largest and most comprehensive
archive of commercial satellite imagery for source data, but the
research and development teams have invented and patented
algorithms to process imagery at an unmatched speed and scale. Now
prospective imagery users do not have to tackle the challenges of
building a large imagery mosaic – such as inconsistencies between
images, misalignment, visible seam lines, color imbalances,
seasonality, haze, and cloud cover – to have a country-wide imagery
layer on which to build the next generation of maps and
applications.
Many organizations across the spectrum – public, private, and
not-for-profit – are now able to use this unique imagery base map
to help achieve their goals. Visit
explore.digitalglobe.com/Basemap-Vivid.html today to learn
more.
About DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe is a leading provider of commercial high-resolution
earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions that help
decision makers better understand our changing planet in order to
save lives, resources and time. Sourced from the world's leading
constellation, our imagery solutions deliver unmatched coverage and
capacity to meet our customers' most demanding mission
requirements. Each day customers in defense and intelligence,
public safety, civil agencies, map making and analysis,
environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure
management, navigation technology, and providers of location-based
services depend on DigitalGlobe data, information, technology and
expertise to gain actionable insight.
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