Astrium’s SPOT 6 Joins Pléiades 1A in Orbit

September 9, 2012 – Built by Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, the SPOT 6 Earth observation satellite was successfully launched by a PSLV launcher from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. It joins Pléiades 1A in orbit, a recently launched high resolution Earth observation satellite with products distributed by Astrium Services. These satellites will form a complete constellation with Pléiades 1B and SPOT 7 in 2014 – the next satellites on the launch track for Astrium Services. Read more...

The Cricket's Chirp

Have a look at the lighter side of Apollo Mapping and its original comic strip. Read more...

The First Spot 6 Image!

A preview of the first 1.5-meter natural color image collected by SPOT 6 over Bora Bora. Read more...

Image Hunter - The Industry’s First Multi-Source Imagery Search Tool

Features previews & online ordering of DigitalGlobe, GeoEye & Astrium data. Read more...

Free For All - DMC/DEIMOS-1 Toolkit for ENVI

A toolkit add-on to give you default functionality with DEIMOS-1 imagery in ENVI. Read more...

Free For All – USGS LandsatLook Viewer

A free tool to check the date of imagery in Bing Maps and Virtual Earth. Read more...

Working In GDAL (WIG) – Creating a Terrain Roughness Index Map

GDAL is free and can convert raster elevation data to a roughness map. Read more...

Out of This World - Some Angry Birds are Afoot on Mars

NASA and the commercial sector are trying to show us the fun side of science. Read more...

Reaching Orbit - The New SPOT 6 Satellite

Technical information on the recently launched SPOT 6 medium resolution satellite. Read more...

G-FAQ – How do I Open and Color Balance RapidEye Imagery in Photoshop?

An explanation of how to make RapidEye imagery work in Photoshop. Read more...

RapidEye 3A Ortho Product Name Change

Product naming has been made simpler for purchasers of large datasets. Read more...

DigitalGlobe Products Policy Change – Minimum Tasking Order Sizes

A 100 sq km minimum order is now in place for most DigitalGlobe tasking orders. Read more...

Our Changing Landscape – Beihai, China

RapidEye imagery shows rapid urban development in Beihai, China. Read more...

Outside the Box – Wind Turbines and Clean Water

Can the world’s winds produce power and water? Read more...

Small World – Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico

We stay in the Americas for this edition with a visit to southwest Mexico. Read more...

Back to School – Kite Aerial Photography

A low-cost monitoring solution that could assist with golf course management. Read more...

Apollo News Snippets – October 2012

Snippets of interest for the geospatial community. Read more...

Apollo Mapping Has Gone Social

Are you connected to us on Twitter and LinkedIn? Read more...