Specifics on the Q3 2009 US Parcel Layer Update

Released officially last month, the Q3 2009 US Parcel Layer features seven new counties as well as updates to over 17% of the counties currently available. Below you will find a breakdown of the counties we added to the database and updated; as well as details on the counties we added to the growth roadmap. Please contact the eMap Sales Team at bmccarty@emap-int.com or (720) 470-7988 for pricing requests and/or questions about the US Parcel Layer.

To view counties that were added and updated as well as upcoming releases, read more here »

Sneak Peak of a New eMap Product, Parcels Plus+

Over the past months, eMap has gathered feedback on the FASS US Parcel Layer and it is clear that in many cases you need extra data that we simply have not been able to provide on owner mailing address, property structure details and land values. As such, we are excited to announce that starting in November we can offer this data (and much more) as a value-add to the popular US Parcel Layer or as a stand-alone product. With over 3,050 counties in the Parcels Plus+ database, we are sure to have the standardized parcel data you are seeking.

Read more about Parcels Plus+ here »

Special Announcement - WorldView-2 Launches Successfully

A picture of the Boeing Delta II 7920 rocket loaded with the WorldView-2 satellite on launch day at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

On October 8th, WorldView-2 was successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California achieving its predicted orbit in space within minutes. WorldView-2 is currently in the testing and calibration phase and DigitalGlobe expects full operational certification within 90 days of launch. When operational, WorldView-2 will be the most agile high-resolution satellite offering 50-cm Panchromatic and 2-meter 8-band Multispectral data.

Watch a replay of the WorldView-2 Launch

Read more about WorldView-2 »

A Photo Introduction to the eMap Customer Support Team

It was a grey afternoon in Colorado and with empty Inboxes, the eMap team took advantage of a visit by our Florida-bound President to enjoy the bugling elk in Rocky Mountain National Park.

After trouncing through the wild back country, we stopped for a rest on a trail overlooking a scenic pasture. During this time, David Nale (CEO) snapped this photo. Pictured below (left to right) are Sky Rubin (Sales Manager), Justin Harmon (Inside Sales Rep) and Brock Adam McCarty (Map Wizard).

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Newly Released High Resolution Satellite and Aerial Orthomosaics

Each month, eMap has access to newly released digital orthomosaics of aerial imagery inside the United States and the European Union; and to orthomosaics of QuickBird satellite imagery in other international areas.

To see the aerial and QuickBird markets released this month as well as several sample images, read more here »

A Word from our CEO - eMap Customer Service

eMap International is about to celebrate its 10-year anniversary providing top-notch geospatial consulting and products to a truly global customer base. The success of eMap over the past decade is rooted in three previous decades of geospatial business experience and encapsulated in one overriding principle, Customer Service. Aerial Data Reduction (ADR), founded in 1970 and owned by David Nale for 20 years prior to forming eMap, established outstanding customer service as THE Fundamental Cornerstone of its geospatial mapping business.

Read more from CEO David K. Nale »

Word of the Month - NDVI

Following up on October's newsletter, the eMap Word of the Month for November is more an abbreviation than it is a word, NDVI. For those engaged in vegetation studies, this term is old news; for many others, it may sound a bit odd as NDVI stands for Normalized Difference Vegetation Index.

Simply stated, NDVI is a measure of plant health. In order to calculate NDVI, you need to start with 4-band Multispectral data that contains Blue, Green, Red and Near-Infrared spectral data. NDVI is derived from this Multispectral imagery per the following function by replacing the raw digital number values for the respective spectral band and pixel:

NDVI = (NIR - RED) / (NIR + RED)

Dividing by NIR + RED creates a normalized value whereby NDVI will always fall between -1.0 and +1.0. This narrow range of values lends itself to a rapid assessment of the ground cover present in your data. Clouds, water and snow tend to have very small positive values or even negative values; bare soils tend to have small positive values (perhaps 0.1 to 0.2); while health vegetation tends to have values of 0.3 or greater.

Read more about the Word of the Month here »

Geospatial Freebie of the Month - Free USA Aerial Imagery

In this new monthly feature, eMap will feature links to web pages, FTP sites, libraries, etc. with interesting/new/unique free items that might help some of you get through your day just a bit easier. If you have some ideas that you would like to share with the rest of our readers, please drop Brock McCarty a line at bmccarty@emap-int.com.

This month, eMap is pleased to share a link to the most comprehensive and easy-to-use database of free aerial imagery collected over the USA that we have come across.

USDA Geospatial Data Gateway

Free Service - Data Alert

Do you have an area of interest around the world for which you just can't seem to find imagery?

Or do you have a project on the near horizon which will require imagery?

If you answered yes to either of these questions, then eMap International is pleased to offer you the perfect free service*, Data Alert. Once you sign up for Data Alert, we will periodically search for the data you need and alert you if and when it has been collected. Signing up is quick and easy so you can sit back and let eMap do the work for you!

How do you sign up for Data Alert?

To sign up for Data Alert, all you have to do is respond to this newsletter with information on your:

1. Geographic location of interest

2. Acceptable resolution and spectral bands

3. Special timing/seasonal considerations for the data

We will get you set up from there!

*There is no oblication to buy data by eMap. Standard archive pricing and minimum order prices apply.