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‘Aerial Imagery’ Archives
Nashville Flood
Recent infrared aerial photographs of the Nashville area flooding were taken by TN Department of Transportation. Generally TDOT charges for their imagery, however, according to folks at TDOT, these photos may soon become available to state and local governments for free. TDOT flew Monday, May 3rd - Saturday, May 7th over major flood [...]
Google Earth Buildings just got Smarter!
You can now find information about buildings in Google Earth's 3-D view. Simply click on the building and you will find links, text, and pictures about the building.
2010 Winter Olympics Luge Aerial Images
We thought you might be interested in a few different views of the luge track at Whistler Creekside. Check out more luge photos and the latest info at http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-luge/
Trimble Test Sites
Before Trimble released the test results for their new postprocessing engine, they allowed us to see their three "test sites." Trimble uses three, very different, testing sites to research receivers under two extreme environments and one "typical" environment. Each test site contains 26 carefully planned survey locati0ns offering different [...]
Update to Microsoft Virtual Earth
I heard from an ESRI representative that the subscription for the imagery and base maps from VE will cost $200/person/year. Incredibly affordable! One catch is that for now it will only be available as streaming information so you'll have to be connected online to use it for now. They are working on a hosted solution, but no word on pricing for [...]
Microsoft Virtual Earth coming to ArcGIS 9.3
Coming soon to ArcGIS 9.3 as a subscription based service that will allow you to add the Microsoft Virtual Earth imagery and base maps. The real benefit of using this service is that it removes the responsibility of finding and sometimes purchasing the latest base mapping files. Also, it frees you to map beyond your normal "home territory", [...]
EarthNow! Landsat Image Viewer
USGS has a new trick up its sleeve. Almost realtime satellite imagery from LandSat 5 & 7! Landsat 5 was launched in 1984 as a backup for Landsat 4 and scans the earth once every 16 days. Landsat 7 was launched in 1999 and circles the Earth at an altitude of 438 miles. These two satellites stream imagery continuously to the earth, specifically [...]
Successful Launch for Kentucky Space Balloon-1
Yesterday, Kentucky Space successfully launched a space balloon, nearly into space, in Bowling Green, KY. The balloon brought back amazing pictures of the earth's surface that look very similar to something you would see from a space shuttle. Congratulations to the Kentucky Space team for this accomplishment. Pictures of the Launch can be seen by [...]
Tour de France gets Google Street View
The Tour de France is on and so is street view for the course. This year you can see the course using Google's Street View technology. This LINK connects you to the traditional Google Maps site showing where street view is available over the course. The tour website is HERE. And a course map PDF is found HERE. I'm not sure if the street view [...]
State of TN Now Offering Statewide Imagery for Purchase or Download
The State of TN Office for Information Resources (OIR), GIS Services Division are now making statewide imagery available for purchase or download. Anyone can now purchase the raw .TIF digital orthophotos and digital terrain models (DTMs) developed from the Tennessee Basemapping Program on a per sheet basis. More details about the nature, format [...]
