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In the April 2011 edition of GeoView, we feature a sneak peek into the Quarter 1 2011 US parcel layer release. We also provided information on our attendance of the upcoming Esri Petroleum User Group (PUG) conference in Houston during the month of April - come visit our booth if you will be there as well!


Featured Articles
Preview of the Q1 2011 CoreLogic ParcelPoint Release

Significant Pricing Changes to Our Tax Roll Data Products

eMap to Attend April Esri PUG Conference in Houston

The Roll of Satellite Imagery in Disaster Management

Gone Fishing - New World Record Yellowfin Tuna Catch

Data in Transit - The iPad as a Tool for Field Data Capture

Satellites in the News - Radiometric Use of WorldView-2 Imagery

In Focus - Land for Biofuels

Assessing Colored Dissolved Organic Matter with WorldView-2 Satellite Imagery

Partner Updates
Tunisian Migrants in Lampedusa: SPOT-5 and OceanWay Keep Track of Maritime Picture

Monthly Columns
Update on DigitalGlobe's Advanced Ortho Aerial Program

Word of the Month - Focal Plane

Geospatial Freebie of the Month - USGS Land Use and Land Cover Dataset

The Beaten Path - Baseball is Nearly Here!

The Speculative Tasking Program



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The Area of Interest
Midan Al-Tahrir Square; Cair, Egypt

Midan Al-Tahrir, or more popularly known as Tahrir Square or Liberation Square, has become a central focus in Egypt's historical quest for democracy through peaceful revolution. The events taking place across the Mid-East and Africa started in Tunisia with the martyring of a fruit dealer. The revolutionary energy soon spread to Egypt where millions of oppressed Egyptians took to the streets of Tahrir Square to show their frustration with the dictatorial regime and to state their desire for a democratic nation.



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The World is Flat
Paul Revere Port-a-Potties: 1 if by stand, 2 if by seat.

Chang's Chinese Foods rolls the dice on the Bad Luck cookie.

The clumsy boy broke wind.

Following the Super Bowl, Pittsburgh's Terrible Towel is demoted to cleaning up after dogs.



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GeoView Archive
Follow the links below to find each archived version of eMap International's GeoView newsletters from 2009, 2010 & 2011.

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Tunisian Migrants in Lampedusa: SPOT-5 and OceanWay Keep Track of Maritime Picture

Some 4,000 Tunisian migrants flocked to the island of Lampedusa in makeshift boats between February 11th and 13th following the Tunisian democratic transition.

Faced with this sudden and massive influx, the Italian government declared a humanitarian state of emergency on the island.

Two SPOT-5 images and the OceanWay platform helped keep track of the maritime picture.

OceanWay satellite-based maritime surveillance platform.



Implementing the maritime surveillance platform

SPOT-5 was tasked to track the maritime picture around Lampedusa.

An image acquired on February 15th was compared with a recent archive image from February 5th. Both images were processed to level 2A and then analyzed by the OceanWay platform.

OceanWay activity report

The activity report detailed the location, heading, movements and behavior of boats in the vicinity.

On February 5th, 18 boats were identified, the smallest of them was estimated to be 4-meters long. And then on February 15th, less than 4 hours after image acquisition, 6 boats were detected, including 2 military vessels patrolling south of the island.

A sample OceanWay report from February 5th.



If you are interested in Astrium’s OceanWay monitoring product, please contact Brock Adam McCarty at (720) 470-7988 or bmccarty@emap-int.com.

Jessi Dick
Marketing Manager
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