The main challenge is how to process the data and serve as map tiles for tracing.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:44 AM, maning sambale <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------ -- 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
