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  Space Imaging Products
Space Imaging's already diverse collection of resources grew with the launch of IKONOS, the world's first one-meter resolution, commercial imaging satellite, on September 24, 1999.
One-meter resolution space imagery: Space Imaging’s IKONOS satellite is the first to provide imagery that enables customers to see objects as small as one-meter in size in fl-and-white (panchromatic).
Four-meter resolution space imagery: Space Imaging’s IKONOS satellite is the first to provide imagery that enables customers to see objects as small as four-meters in size in color (multispectral).
www.dtmgis.com /products_SpaceImaging.htm   (568 words)

  
 SGI - Features: SGI Helps Space Imaging Bring One-Meter Resolution Satellite Imagery to the Commercial Marketplace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Space Imaging, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, is a leading supplier of visual information products and related services derived from space imagery and aerial photography.
Space Imaging's products, services, and solutions serve a wide variety of markets throughout commercial, government, and consumer sectors, a market projected to be worth $2.5 billion by 2003.
Space Imaging utilizes multiple satellite systems to facilitate an efficient, global collection program that ensures customers are provided the best, most efficient service possible.
www.sgi.com /features/2002/july/si   (618 words)

  
 Space Imaging - Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Space Imaging asked voters to choose 10 images using a single word as the criteria, “stunning.” Voters chose from 24 images, all taken during 2004, and after four weeks of voting in December and January, one image rose to the top as the most popular — Ayers Rock in Australia.
Space Imaging is the premier provider of satellite imagery enabling businesses, governments and individuals to better map, measure, monitor and manage the world in which we live.
Space Imaging is a privately held company with partners, resellers and 14 affiliate ground stations around the world.
www.geoplace.com /pressrelease/detail.asp?id=8934   (597 words)

  
 Space Imaging - Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Geobook is an unclassified Space Imaging geospatial product that provides a simple-to-use software program with a map-like interface that makes it intuitive to browse and store information on features such as facilities, pipelines, bridges, roads and other key civilian infrastructures.
Dennis Jones, Space Imaging’s director of National Security Programs, said that the company was pleased to provide the Geobook decision-support solution to the State Department.
Space Imaging is a leading supplier of visual information products and services derived from space imagery and aerial photography.
www.geoplace.com /pressrelease/pressdetail_print.asp?id=4737   (485 words)

  
 :: ipKonfig.com - More than just a 'hardware' site...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I was offered an opportunity to visit the Space Imaging Company in Thornton, Colorado, which specializes in such technology.
Space Imaging supplied the images to Hollywood for approximately $90,000.
Space Imaging, the actual company, is a self-proclaimed specialist in consumer exploitation of space imaging.
www.ipkonfig.com /Articles/SpaceImaging   (553 words)

  
 Imaging Space Reconnaissance Opprations during the Cold War: Cause, Effect and Legacy
Analysis of enemy missiles and space activities was taken by both men to be the exclusive purview of their own service, and most emphatically not in the civilian sector.
Space reconnaissance was coming in from the cold after thirty-five years.
The institutional use of space imagery for such purposes could have a salutary effect in reducing genocide and other atrocities if those who want to commit them know that there is a real possibility the events will be recorded by machines they can't see but which can see them quite clearly.
webster.hibo.no /asf/Cold_War/report1/williame.html   (10985 words)

  
 SGI - Newsroom: SGI and Space Imaging Sign Teaming Agreement to Expand Cooperation, Revenues in Growing Geospatial ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The purpose of this one-year, renewable agreement is to facilitate cooperation between SGI and Space Imaging to expand revenues in the growing geospatial marketplace.
As part of the agreement, SGI and Space Imaging have agreed to establish Space Imaging as an Authorized Value-Added Reseller of SGI® hardware and services; establish SGI as an Authorized Reseller of Space Imaging imagery data; establish a collaborative marketing arrangement between the two companies; and establish a Joint Strategic Opportunity Committee.
Space Imaging's groundstations are powered by SGI servers that process the large files of imagery data transmitted to Earth by the IKONOS satellite.
sgi.com /company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2001/november/space.html   (710 words)

  
 Space Imaging to Distribute KODAK Earth Imaging Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Space Imaging and its more than 150 North American resellers will begin selling the imagery in early April.
Space Imaging will sell the ready-to-use, orthorectified imagery in six-inch (15 cm), one-foot (30 cm), two-foot (60 cm) and one-meter spatial resolutions.
Space Imaging is a leading supplier of visual information products derived from space imagery and aerial photography.
www.gisdevelopment.net /news/2001/mar/nps013.htm   (435 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Space Imaging President Moves to Lockheed
Space Imaging, the frontrunner in the 1-meter imaging race, confirmed Monday that president Jeffrey K. Harris was no longer with the company.
They also claim that Space Imaging CEO John Copple and Harris were not in agreement over the direction the company should take.
Astrosociology is the study of astrosocial phenomena (social/cultural patterns related to space), a multidisciplinary field open to all scientists and engineers interested in "space and society" issues.
www.space.com /businesstechnology/business/imaging_breaking_000508.html   (601 words)

  
 IMINT - Space Imaging Products
Space Imaging released the world’s first high-resolution commercial satellite image of the Earth.
The one-meter resolution fl-and-white image of Washington, D.C., collected by Space Imaging’s IKONOS satellite, has unprecedented clarity and detail for commercial space imagery.
The imagery is stored in Space Imaging’s digital CARTERRA™ archive and can be made available to customers very quickly - in as little as a few hours or days.
www.fas.org /irp/imint/space_imaging.htm   (533 words)

  
 Wired News: U.S. Ends Afghan Image Contract
Over the past several weeks, the agency and Space Imaging discussed the possibility of extending an agreement but ultimately rejected such a plan.
Space Imaging's Brender said the company is not publishing fully processed images of Afghanistan on its website.
Although the Afghanistan contract was not the first time the Pentagon purchased commercial satellite images, Space Imaging said it was the first time the military had purchased images during a declared conflict.
www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,49863,00.html   (744 words)

  
 SPACE SURVEILLANCE
Visible against the pre-dawn or post-dusk sky, the largest low orbiting spacecraft, such as space stations or imaging intelligence satellites, are of magnitude 0, comparable to the brighter stars in the sky, and many other low-orbiting satellites are visible to the unaided observer.
Speckle imaging techniques take advantage of the short exposure time of CCDs to produce images of targets with exposure times that are shorter than the time scale of the fluctuations in the Earth's atmosphere, effectively freezing the effects of atmospheric turbulence.
The US space control objectives are to guarantee tree access to space in peace and deny an adversary's use or control of space in war.
www.fas.org /spp/military/program/track/overview.htm   (5531 words)

  
 Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Top 10 images released from commercial eye-in-the-sky
Space Imaging, the world's only company to offer commercially available one-meter resolution satellite imagery, is celebrating the one-year anniversary in space of it Ikonos satellite.
In celebration of this anniversary, Space Imaging is showcasing 10 of the year's most visually striking Ikonos photographs on the company's Web site.
Space Imaging recently worked with Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., following the destructive wildfires that blazed through this city early last summer.
www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0009/25ikonos   (572 words)

  
 John Copple, CEO, Space Imaging
"Space Imaging's mission has always been to change people's lives for the better by allowing the commercial sector to harness the power of high-resolution remote sensing imagery.
Space Imaging will continue to be a remote sensing company that focuses on the growing need for visual information products in a wide range of commercial and non-commercial fields."
Since the life span of IKONOS is 5-7 years, Space Imaging's five-year business plan calls for replacement satellites and we are already in the process of defining requirements for the next generation system
www.gisdevelopment.net /interview/previous/ev004.htm   (1526 words)

  
 Newsletter Archive - Jan 30, 2003
John R. Copple, CEO of satellite imagery provider Space Imaging (SI) since 1995, has resigned from the company to pursue other opportunities.
Just last week the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) announced that Space Imaging, along with competitor Digital Globe were selected as contractors for the CLEARVIEW project which will pump millions of dollars into each company's coffers.
Space Imaging's main investors are Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, who are joined by smaller investors including Mitsubishi and Hyundai.
www.gismonitor.com /news/newsletter/archive/013003.php   (6493 words)

  
 GLOSSARY S and T   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The relative proportions of sand, silt, and clay separates in a soil as described by the classes of soil texture.
Space Imaging is a joint venture/partnership formed by Hughes Aircraft Company and RCA Corporation.
The TM is a nonphotographic imaging system which utilizes an oscillating mirror and seven arrays of detectors which sense electromagnetic radiation in seven different bands.
edcsgs9bb.cr.usgs.gov /glis/hyper/glossary/s_t   (1683 words)

  
 Fairchild Imaging - CCD, CMOS, OEM CCD Cameras - Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A testament to the high quality results of Fairchild Imaging technology is represented in the imagery displayed in this gallery.
Image taken with the Cassini spacecraft's Imaging Science Subsystem narrow angle camera using Fairchild Imagings 1024 x 1024, 12µm pixel lumigen coated CCD's on Jan. 18, 2005, at a distance of 1.4 million kilometers (889,000 miles) from Saturn.
Image taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft's Imaging Science Subsystems narrow angle camera using Fairchild Imagings 1024 x 1024, 12µm pixel lumigen coated CCD's on Dec. 18, 2004, at a distance of 2 million kilometers (1.3 million miles) from Mimas, one of the intermost moons of saturn.
www.fairchildimaging.com /main/gallery.htm   (466 words)

  
 Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Satellite sees world's largest human gathering from space
Space Imaging's Ikonos satellite has taken a detailed color photograph of the largest human gathering in the history of the world, the Maha Kumbh Mela, a spiritual event held every 144 years in Northern India.
The festival is expected to attract 70 million people to a sacred location on the Ganges River, 15 km from Allahabad, for more than a month of bathing rituals.
The one-meter resolution image of the Maha Kumbh Mela was collected by Space Imaging's Ikonos satellite, which travels four miles per-second in an orbit 423 miles above Earth.
spaceflightnow.com /news/n0101/26ikonos   (524 words)

  
 So you want to write for Imaging Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thank you for your interest in contributing to Imaging Notes, the world's first publication dedicated to helping readers understand the myriad of applications for the commercial remote sensing imagery.
Our goal is to respond to the concerns of novice and professional users alike by covering policy affecting the industry, conferences and seminars, new commercial applications for remote sensing imagery, and many other areas relevant to the industry.
Also, we need the story with one space between sentences.
www.imagingnotes.com /home/guidelines.html   (691 words)

  
 Space Imaging, Satellite Photography, IKONOS
Before and after images from Space Imaging of lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center.
In its two short years of existence, Space Imaging has become a world leader in space-based photography.
Using IKONOS' one-meter resolution, and with access to a small fleet of government-owned satellites, Space Imaging can photograph nearly anything, anywhere, on as little as three days' notice.
www.scifidimensions.com /Dec01/spaceimaging.htm   (193 words)

  
 Tim & Becky's Deep Space Imaging Page
We take images of galaxies, nebulas, and other deep space objects that are thousands and even millions of light-years from Earth using a couple different telescopes, CCD imaging devices, and of course, computers.
The webcam "phenomena" is growing and the deep space images coming from these low-cost devices are improving all the time.
SAC Imaging EUROPE: This European company sells SAC devices and is using some of our images on their web pages.
www.cloudnet.com /~dsastro/astroimage1.htm   (1890 words)

  
 Space Imaging :: Welcome to CARTERRA Online :: The most comprehensive warehouse of imagery and mapping content worldwide
Space Imaging :: Welcome to CARTERRA Online :: The most comprehensive warehouse of imagery and mapping content worldwide
CARTERRA Online from Space Imaging allows you to have round-the-clock access to the most comprehensive warehouse of worldwide imagery and mapping content on the market today.
Copyright ©2005 Space Imaging, Inc., All rights reserved.
map2.spaceimaging.com /cgi-bin/Carterra/phtml/login.phtml   (120 words)

  
 Space Imaging, Inc. - Fact Sheet - Hoover's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Those before-and-after images of battle-torn areas used during press briefings aren't from spy satellites; they're from Space Imaging, which owns and operates IKONOS, the world's first one-meter resolution commercial satellite.
Space Imaging sells images from IKONOS and other satellites it owns or has rights to -- as well as aerial photos -- to commercial (forestry, oil exploration) and government (agricultural, defense, planning) customers.
Get more info on Space Imaging with a DandB Report.
www.hoovers.com /space-imaging/--ID__55265--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (273 words)

  
 Space Imaging
Space Imaging has established the world's largest constellation of Earth imaging satellites and aerial mapping platforms to provide timely, quality visual information products.
With the addition of the IKONOS satellite, a new generation of imagery and visual information products can distinguish objects on the Earth's surface one-meter in size.
(Jul 26, 2005) Space Imaging Awarded $5.88 Million Contract from Pentagon’s...
www.directionsmag.com /companies/byID.php?id=137   (367 words)

  
 Popular Mechanics - The View From Space: Orbiting Camera
What makes this "aerial photo" important isn't what it reveals but how it was taken.
You are looking at the first 1-meter-resolution color images taken from more than 400 miles in space.
For about $2000, Space Imaging of Thornton, Colo., will point and click its Ikonos spy-in-the-sky satellite just about anywhere you ask, from an ultrasecret North Korean missile base to your next-door neighbor's swimming pool.
www.popularmechanics.com /science/space/1282646.html   (431 words)

  
 Space Imaging Newswire Archived Issues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Space Imaging to Celebrate Second Anniversary of IKONOS Satellite Launch” (press release); August 17, 2001, Rocky Mountain News, On the Move, “
Space Imaging appointed Jody Tedesco as chief operating officer” (brief); August 17, 2001, GISDevelopment.net, “
U.S. Geological Survey Decommissioning Two Satellites," Jason Bates, mention of Space Imaging as the operator and owner of distribution rights for Landsat 5 (article); May 4, 2001, The Learning Channel, 10 p.m.
newswire.spaceimaging.com /ArchivedIssues.htm   (3695 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Amelia Earhart Plane Possibly Spotted By Satellite
This Space Imaging shot shows Nikumaroro in the southwest Pacific Ocean where high-resolution satellite imagery has detected what may be remains of Amelia Earhart's plane.
This time, the team is armed with imagery taken by Space Imaging's Ikonos 2 satellite.
In a technological twist of fate, aviation history has matched up with space technology.
www.space.com /missionlaunches/missions/amelia_plane_010711-1.html   (689 words)

  
 Useful Links
UK leader in small/micro satellite technology and manufacturing.
This will be the prime site for downloading two-line elements.
Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin
www.geo-web.org.uk /links.html   (241 words)

  
 Space Telescope and Imaging Spectrograph (STIS)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ball Aerospace designed and built the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) to greatly expand the capabilities of two first-generation Hubble Space Telescope instruments: the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph and the Faint Object Spectrograph.
STIS, a two-dimensional spectrograph, images along its narrow entrance slit, which blocks extraneous light and generates the spectra of many locations simultaneously.
Copyright © 2004 by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.
www.ballaerospace.com /stis.html   (105 words)

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