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	GEO World - Jan 2002 - Heating Up--The Satellite Imaging Race Intensifies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		High-resolution imaging satellites, which capture visual representations of Earth at one-meter-per-pixel resolution or better, are among the newest group of satellites in orbit.
		Whether you use images from satellites or their older cousins, aerial cameras, chances are you are or soon will be working with digital, multispectral images that provide a wealth of data exponentially greater than what could be achieved even a few years ago.
		Imaging satellites were considered one of the better candidates.
	www.geoplace.com /gw/2002/0201/0201tch.asp (2410 words)

	Benthic Habitat Mapping - Satellite Imaging
		Satellites provide a means for looking at a very large area of the world within a very short time period.
		Sensors on the satellite measure the wavelength and intensity of the reflected radiation.
		Although it is seldom possible to acquire satellite imagery under the appropriate conditions for effective benthic mapping (such as low-tide or calm sea state), satellite imaging has proven useful in tropical, clear water environments for coral mapping.
	www.csc.noaa.gov /benthic/mapping/techniques/sensors/satellites.htm (410 words)

	Satellite imagery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first satellite photographs of the Moon might have been made on October 6, 1959 by the Soviet satellite Luna 3, on a mission to photograph the far side of the Moon.
		The resolution of satellite images varies depending on the instrument used and the altitude of the satellite's orbit.
		Satellite imagery can be combined with vector or raster data in a GIS provided that the imagery has been spatially rectified so that it will properly align with other data sets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Satellite_photo (729 words)

	AstroVision Australia, ac3 Team For Satellite Space Imaging
		The planned launch date for the satellite is in 2007 and the nominal life of the satellite is at least 9 years.
		The contract for the satellite bus has already been put to tender, and Ball Aerospace (Colorado, USA) was selected by AVII as the favoured entity for satellite construction and sensor integration.
		A Geostationary satellite, orbiting at the same speed as the earth's rotation, would provide continuous coverage 24 hours a day, seven days a week from a fixed location high above the Earth, allowing cloud weather patterns and cyclones to be monitored continuously.
	www.taborcommunications.com /hpcwire/hpcwireWWW/04/1203/108920.html (1226 words)

	Satellite imaging (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Satellites have been used over the past several decades to obtain a wide variety of information about the earth’s surface, ranging from military applications to tracking global weather patterns, tectonic activity, surface vegetation, ocean currents and temperatures, polar ice fluctuations, pollution, and many other aspects.
		The application of satellite image analysis to archaeology has emerged alongside these other uses, but archaeologists are only now beginning to exploit more fully the broad range of analytical tools available for assessing the satellite image data of the earth’s surface and sub-surface.
		The evolution of satellite image technology is also enabling the manipulation of a greater range of data contained in increasing types of satellite images (e.g., Aster; Corona; Landsat TM, etc.): archaeologists can now examine a broad spectrum of reflectivity signatures and bands within and between archaeological sites, including both surface and sub-surface features.
	www.deltasinai.com.cob-web.org:8888 /image-00.htm (452 words)

	REMOTE SENSING / SATELLITE IMAGING
		Satellite remote sensing is particularly important because it can provide enormous amounts of environmental data covering very large areas in a cost-effective manner.
		Satellite imagery is generally less expensive and more universally available than comparable aerial photographic coverage, and it comes in a digital format for immediate importation into computer database systems, such as GIS.
		The addition of remote sensing/satellite imaging to the arsenal of tools available for archaeological research will help to offset the ever smaller excavation exposures from which primary data is retrieved.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/DEPT/COMP/Remote_Sensing.html (495 words)

	Satellite Video Imaging
		All satellite tracking is done manually by following the target in the Telrad viewfinder and pushing the telescope in the right direction.
		During a 4 minute satellite pass I am usually able to record about 100 - 200 individual frames, but only about 50 are used in the final images.
		Each of my composite images shows the satellite at different points across the sky - usually the top-left image is the approaching view and the bottom-right is the departing view.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/canterbury/222/satellite.htm (326 words)

	CNN - Satellite imaging pioneers: A virtual roadmap of the world in four years - November 18, 1999
		Along the way, the imaging satellite can zoom in on items as small as a square meter across, and in the process piece together an overall picture of vast areas - even the entire world.
		The company is pioneering the technology of all-encompassing satellite imaging for civilian uses.
		Earthwatch in Longmont, Colorado plans to launch its own imaging satellite early next year, and a Virginia company is working on the technology.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9911/18/satellite.imaging.t_t/index.html (497 words)

	Halfbakery: Time-lag satellite imaging
		Since the speed of light In vacuo is limited to 2.99 x 10^8 m/s, a satellite positioned at a suitably large distance experiences a time lag between what happens on Earth and what it "sees".
		A spaceborne telescope with a suitably long optical path, large objective lens, and photon-multiplication detector would be able to image quite small features, even from the immense distances involved (for a time lag of 20 minutes, about 400 million kilometres).
		Imaging information would be returned by a conventional radio link.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Time-lag_20satellite_20imaging (739 words)

	Proliferation of Satellite Imaging Capabilities: Developments and Implications Steve Berner
		As weapon “smartness” increases, the utility of satellite imagery in directing these weapons is increasing, as is the allowable delay between image acquisition and arrival of the weapon within the range of its seeker to the target.
		For more sophisticated uses of satellite imagery, such as determining points of interest against which to direct more specialized sensors for detailed analysis or close-in tracking, timeliness requirements are determined by the specifics of the mission, target mobility, retargetability of the other sensors, and other specialized factors.
		This is due in part to an increase in satellite and sensor capabilities and in part to expanding infrastructures, including relay satellites enabling satellites to transmit data in real time to virtually any point on the earth’s surface, as well as more capable image-processing and data-transmission systems.
	www.fas.org /irp/threat/fp/b19ch5.htm (4420 words)

	HeraldNet: Satellite imaging is farmer's friend and foe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Across government and private industry alike, satellite imaging technology is being used in water-rights litigation and in prosecution of environmental cases ranging from a hog confinement facility's violations of waste discharge regulations to injury damage lawsuits stemming from herbicide applications.
		Satellite technology, which takes images at about eight-day intervals, can be used to monitor when farmers plant their acreage, how they irrigate them and what crops they grow.
		But in one related trial that went to a jury, prosecutors used satellite images and testimony from a satellite image analyst to present their case.
	www.heraldnet.com /stories/06/01/14/100bus_imaging001.cfm (659 words)

	Dvorak Technique - Satellite Services Division
		The Dvorak technique is a method using enhanced Infrared and/or visible satellite imagery to quantitatively estimate the intensity of a tropical system.
		Cloud patterns in satellite imagery normally show an indication of cyclogenesis before the storm reaches tropical storm intensity.
		As a forecast tool, the Dvorak technique is showing a weakening trend and the likelihood of a lowering CI within the next 24hours.
	www.ssd.noaa.gov /PS/TROP/dvorak.html (227 words)

	BrightSide Technologies - Satellite Imaging and Security (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		With these satellites, it is possible to gather image data in both high resolution and high dynamic range.
		One example of the utility of an HDR display in assessment of satellite images would be in the military setting.
		A satellite image of a region may contain areas where targets of interest are camouflaged.
	www.brightsidetech.com.cob-web.org:8888 /apps/satellite.php (263 words)

	Yorkshire CND - The Satellite Wars- 8/11/01
		Dozens of satellites from the United States and its international coalition supported the American military campaign against terrorists in the Islamic State of Afghanistan in 2001.
		Space Imaging launched the 1,600-pound satellite to an altitude of 400 miles in September 1999 on a Lockheed Martin Athena 2 rocket from Vandenburg Air Force Base north of Los Angeles.
		The first Ikonos satellite was lost in the Pacific Ocean when a protective shroud failed to come off the rocket as planned after launch.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/satellitewars.htm (2707 words)

	Imaging the Earth
		There is one aspect of the Earth's appearance that we do not expect to be repeated in the near future for other objects in the Solar System: at night the artificial light associated with human civilization is very visible from space.
		We have seen in the preceding sections examples of imaging the Earth in the infrared, ultraviolet, and X-ray regions of the spectrum.
		The imager on this satellite records radiation emitted by water vapor in the upper troposphere.
	csep10.phys.utk.edu /astr161/lect/earth/imaging.html (760 words)

	Spy satellite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Until the 1970s and even the 1980s, many reconnaissance satellites that took photographs would eject canisters of photographic film, which would descend to earth and be retrieved in mid-air as they floated down on parachutes.
		A few up-to-date reconnaissance satellite images have been declassified on occasion, or leaked, as in the case of KH-11 photographs which were sent to Jane's Defence Weekly in 1985.
		Digital imaging; probably incorporates low light level visible and 3 to 5 micrometre infrared imaging capabilities; possible "live" intelligence gathering.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spy_satellite (279 words)

	Space Imaging :: One Year Viewed From Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		As no other high-resolution commercial imaging satellites were in orbit on that fateful day, IKONOS was the only space-based camera able to capture this compelling visual chronology of the destruction and rebirth.
		The imagery provides a special perspective to this story that couldn't be achieved with hand-held cameras on the ground or even cameras mounted in airplanes.
		Space Imaging routinely sells satellite images of newsworthy events to the media; however, it is the company's policy to not charge for any images related to September 11.
	www.spaceimaging.com /gallery/9-11 (230 words)

	HobbySpace - Eyes in the Sky
		It's satellites were low resolution compared to spy sats, but they looked in spectral areas of particular interest to agricultural, mining, and other applications.
		This satellite is remaining in US Government hands so the image prices will be much lower than those from the earlier privatised satellites.
		This satellite launched in May 2002 is dedicated to the study of the earth's "water cycle, including evaporation from the oceans, water vapor in the atmosphere, clouds, precipitation, soil moisture, sea ice, land ice, and snow cover on the land and ice."
	www.hobbyspace.com /SatEyes/index.html (3442 words)

	Satellite Imaging & Mapping :: Wildfire Risk :: Emergency Planning :: Invasive Species :: Economic Development :: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		NCDC's Imaging and Mapping Division specializes in using DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite's sub-meter imagery to map, measure, and assess resource types with special emphasis on Forest Composition analysis, Wildfire Risk Assessment, Emergency Response Planning, Invasive Species mapping, Wetlands Delineation and Range Land Assessment, as well as Land Claims and Economic Development applications.
		In 2001, DigitalGlobe launched the QuickBird satellite, the highest resolution commercial imaging satellite in the world (61 cm panchromatic, 2.4 meter multispectral), and subsequently began full commercial operations to provide imagery products and services to customers worldwide.
		Using QuickBird high resolution satellite imagery, NCDC can identify and map many natural and human built features to provide planning, GIS, natural resources management, economic development, and other agency departments with "baseline" data for use in developing management strategies and plans.
	www.ncdcimaging.com /mapping.php (591 words)

	Satellite Imaging Corp. - Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Satellite Imaging Corporation (SIC), provider of high-resolution satellite images and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services, today announced the hiring of Michael L. Johnson as Vice President in charge of Sales and Business Development.
		Satellite Imaging Corporation provides satellite imaging services for a number of industries, including urban planning, construction, and environmental management, but specializes in utilizing satellite image and 2D/3D GIS technology in support of exploration, development and production to the oil and gas industry.
		Satellite Imaging Corporation provides high resolution satellite imaging products and services to its clients.
	www.geoplace.com /pressrelease/pressdetail.asp?id=12838 (344 words)

	Satellite Imaging Seeks A Change In Scenery - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Thornton, Colo.-based Space Imaging, in partnership with Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people), Eastman Kodak (nyse: EK - news - people) and Raytheon (nyse: RTN - news - people), was the first U.S. company to launch a commercial imaging satellite, called IKONOS, in 1999.
		The satellite companies' primary customers need imagery within a matter of minutes or hours, not [the days it sometimes takes]." With more satellites in the air, Space Imaging and DigitalGlobe would be more likely to have one hovering in the right spot to capture a photo quickly.
		Armed with improved technology, Space Imaging sees growth opportunity in the international market and hopes to build more of the ground stations that capture images abroad; it is also ramping up a consulting arm to help clients analyze the images that they're paying to have captured.
	www.forbes.com /infoimaging/2004/02/20/cx_af_ii_0220satellite.html (674 words)

	Satellite Imaging \| Landsat \| GOES \| Space Shuttle \| 3D \| Free Software \| Adobe Photoshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In the past, satellite imaging was the exclusive domain of professionals working for government or university organizations.
		Thanks to advances in desktop computing and the wide spread availability of the Internet, satellite imaging can now be enjoyed by any enthusiast from the comfort of one's home.
		Images from earth resource satellites, weather satellites, and the Space Shuttle in a variety of resolutions are all easy to obtain via the Internet.
	members.aol.com /landsatcd/index.html (257 words)

	Businesses focus on satellite imagery - Check Point - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		There are now a handful of private satellite imaging companies that can probably supply it — for a price.
		Some of those pictures were taken by Space Imaging, based in Thornton, Colo., and one of several private firms that take and analyze high-resolution satellite images.
		Space Imaging’s satellite Ikonos can see 1 meter images, and in 1999, when it was launched, it was the only one.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/3072975 (807 words)

	Satellite Images and Aerial Photography by Satellite Imaging Corp (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Satellite Imaging Corporation (SIC) is a global provider of high resolution image data, Geographic Information System (GIS) services, and mapping solutions.
		Satellite Imaging Corporation's processing services are highly accurate and reasonably priced.
		A sample of Satellite Imaging Corporation's satellite imagery and DEM’s are available for viewing on our satellite image gallery page.
	ww.satimagingcorp.com.cob-web.org:8888 (248 words)

	Ocean Imaging \| Satellite & Environmental Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ocean Imaging Corporation specializes in the acquisition, processing and analysis of aerial and satellite-derived environmental data.
		We maintain satellite data archives with real-time downlinks, and are very active in satellite remote sensing research and development.
		Our aim is to expand the applications of satellite remote sensing with new processing techniques and by making the technology accessible and affordable for those who can use it.
	www.oceani.com (214 words)

	Global Imaging: Small Satellite Ground & Data Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Since 1983, Global Imaging has supplied ground and data systems (GDS) for telemetry acquisition, processing, and archiving of raw and processed data to a prestigious group of national and international clients.
		Global Imaging now offers a complete line of GDS products and services including satellite tracking, acquisition, tasking, planning and scheduling, spacecraft commanding, telemetry, data processing, data distribution, and data archival.
		Tracking services include measuring antenna angles, satellite range, and range rate, and computing from these measurements orbital elements sets for use in antenna pointing and mission planning.
	www.globalimaging.com /sat-ssat.html (898 words)

	SGI - Feature Story: SGI at AFRL (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The recent introduction of satellite radar data literally inundated the existing imaging systems, and created the need to efficiently process terabytes of data.
		Compute-intensive processing requirements, the lack of high-level interactive tools, and the massive quantity of satellite data combined to restrict the team to a cumbersome batch processing workflow.
		MATLAB has served as a familiar and effective environment for imaging research associated with past radar systems and now the new tomography approaches that take radar into the world of 3D imaging.
	www.sgi.com.cob-web.org:8888 /features/2006/october/afrl (1231 words)

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