Geospatial "Race to Zero"

In Imaging Notes Winter 2010, Craig Bachmann and Natasha Leger postulated that the radical growth of real time information coupled with global communications and inexpensive storage is "creating a frictionless world, whereby not only the time but also the money once needed to accomplish seemingly complex tasks is grinding down to zero."

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The U.S. Parcel Layer as a Streaming Data Layer

Do you want to utilize parcel data and work in multiple locations spread across a wide swath of the United States? Perhaps you need the most up-to-date parcel information streamed into a geospatial software package as an OEM solution? Or, maybe you work in the land department and need access to parcel identification numbers, owner's name and/or parcel address at the click of a button? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then eMap International is proud to offer First American’s OGC-complaint Web Mapping Services (WMS) ParcelPoint® stream as a viable solution to these and many more geospatial data needs.

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Preview of the Q1 2010 FASS ParcelPoint Release

In the month of March, First American Spatial Solutions released an update of their US-wide ParcelPoint layer. Below is a preview of the updated map as well as insight into the next counties to be added to the ParcelPoint database over the next two quarters. In next month’s GeoView, we will offer specifics on the newly released and updated ParcelPoint counties.

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Parcel Coverage of the Eagle Ford and Woodford Shales

At the recent ESRI PUG meetings in Houston, two oil shales that received significant attention – outside the Marcellus of course – where the Eagle Ford and Woodford Shales in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. With this in mind, eMap identified the counties that intersect the estimated boundaries of these shales; and then determined if ParcelPoint and Parcels Plus+ existed coverage.

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GeoEye Announces Its Next Generation High-Resolution Satellite, GeoEye-2

On March 11th, GeoEye announced that it selected Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company – a key unit in Lockheed Martin with corporate headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland – to build its next generation satellite to be launched in late 2012. GeoEye-2 will provide to world’s most accurate and highest resolution color imagery to customers worldwide.

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SPOT 5 Satellite Captures the Birth of a Giant Iceberg

The tongue of the Mertz Glacier, 100 km from Adélie Land, broke away from the Antarctic continent sometime between February 12 and 13.The ice tongue was already beginning to crack before it calved. Alerted by the LEGOS space geophysics and oceanography research laboratory based in France, Spot Image, an EADS-Astrium subsidiary, tasked the SPOT 5 satellite to capture the event.

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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. This section introduces all of the aerial and QuickBird imagery datasets released in the last month.

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Word of the Month – Off-Nadir Angle

For the April edition of GeoView, we will focus on an often overlooked but certainly important satellite and aerial imagery parameter, off-nadir angle (ONA). ONA defines the angle that the camera (both satellite and aerial) lens looks at the earth from. At-nadir is the point the camera is looking directly down at the ground; while the off-nadir angle would tell you how far from this point (in degrees) the lens is tilted.

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Geospatial Freebie of the Month – EasyGPS

This month’s Geospatial Freebie was submitted to us by a GeoView reader – thanks for the idea! EasyGPS is an easy to use freeware application that can be used to transfer GPS data between your handheld unit and your computer. EasyGPS is compatible with wide variety of GPS units and is an excellent solution for organizing, plotting and creating printable maps of your waypoints. A low-cost upgrade is available, called ExpertGPS, which adds the functionality of displaying your waypoints over a seamless database of US aerial imagery and topographic maps.

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