According to the news article: "The initial data format available is GeoEye’s Basic Enhanced (L1B) product. Processing is underway for terrain corrected (L1Gst) product, and eventually t the entire data set will be processed to the L1Gst level."
We can wait for the L1Gst processing to get the systematically terrain corrected product. > Are the images already georectified? Based on my initial eye-balling not very extensive coverage. However, Orbview-3's repeat cycle is ~ 3 days, I suspect they have a lot of data acquired for the 4 years it was in operation. > And how much of the Philippines > have such imagery? AFAIK, all imagery from USGS servers are free without any restriction. > (Assuming the imagery is in the public domain and not just freely > available.) > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:41 PM, maning sambale > <[email protected]> wrote: >> From the post: >> The U.S. Geological Survey has partnered with GeoEye to provide >> OrbView-3 one-meter satellite images from between 2003 and 2007 for >> free download via the USGS EarthExplorer. You may recall that the >> OrbView-3 satellite was put out of service in 2007 due to a >> malfunction of electronics, and has since been guided to a controlled >> reentry in the Pacific Ocean. >> >> http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/usgs-now-offers-orbview-3-high-resolution-images-for-free.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SpatialSustain+%28Spatial+Sustain%29 >> >> The resolution is not of street level resolution but the imagery is >> still useful for various applications. I've seen several good ones in >> the Philippines. >> >> -- >> cheers, >> maning -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
