Posts Tagged ‘GeoEye’

The Oil Slick, Natural Disasters and Importance of Portable Satellite Imagery

Natural disasters and industrial incidents are not in short supply these days.  Both newspapers and the evening news are documenting tornados, volcanic ash, oil slicks and more. The image below, from GeoEye, shows the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico taken from their GeoEye-1 satellite.


The rising popularity of GeoEye and satellite imagery

As a government VAR in the AEC space, we are afforded a unique viewpoint. The flow of Federal Business Opportunity (FBO) data for AEC projects is astronomical – with dozens of projects being released each week. Watching the ebb and flow government requests, AEC firm responses and the software tools utilized can be dizzying – [...]