Earthstar Geographics and Spatial Mapping Announce Partnership for Sale of TerraColor® Global Satellite Imagery
25 January 2006 - Earthstar Geographics LLC (San Diego, CA, USA) and Spatial Mapping Ltd. (Prince George/Nanaimo, BC, Canada) announced a strategic partnership whereby Spatial Mapping will resell Earthstar’s TerraColor® simulated true color 15-meter digital earth imagery product via their ResMap.com website. The full resolution TerraColor imagery can be accessed free for on-line use or offline purchase on a per-tile basis. TerraColor is built from imagery captured by the Landsat 7 (ETM+) satellite, and provides seamless, tonally balanced coverage of most of the world’s land areas (excluding Antarctica). Applications include land use analysis, vegetation mapping, military/defense logistics, 3-D visualization, flight simulation, accurate cartographic mapping and many others.
“ResMap is one of the premier on-line distribution networks for satellite imagery, and we are excited about the ability to let users view and purchase TerraColor on-line in their fast, interactive website,” said Eric Augenstein of Earthstar Geographics.
“The superb quality of the TerraColor imagery makes it an important addition to our online products. The combination of free on-line usage and affordable off-line pricing makes this dataset the most accessible natural color 15-meter product available in the market today”, said Adam Inglis of Spatial Mapping Ltd.
Visit www.resmap.com for product specifications, pricing, and free on-line use or offline purchase. Please contact info@resmap.com for regional purchases, reduced resolution products, custom file formats and projections. For more information on TerraColor, visit Earthstar’s www.terracolor.net website.
About Earthstar Geographics LLC
Earthstar Geographics LLC specializes in products and services for the geospatial data industries. With nearly 20 years experience in remote sensing and image processing, the company has performed projects and training in 15 countries worldwide. The TerraColor imagery products are the latest in their line of digital earth imagery.
About ResMap
ResMap, a division of Spatial Mapping Ltd, has been serving satellite imagery covering the global since 2002, and is now serving over 10 Terabytes of data. The entire world’s land mass is covered with variety of different satellite sensors including Landsat 5/7, RadarSat, IKONOS, QuickBird and SPOT-5. All imagery is available for free online use and can be brought directly into end user’s GIS/RS/CAD/MS Office applications with the use of free plug-ins. Imagery is also available for off-line use at affordable prices.
Earthstar Geographics' TerraColor Imagery To Be Used By Harris Corporation
San Diego, CA (1 February 2006) - Earthstar Geographics LLC today announced
that Harris Corporation (Melbourne, FL) has purchased non-exclusive rights to
use its TerraColor® global 15-meter resolution satellite imagery product via an
agreement with Earthstar's reseller Spatial Mapping Ltd. (British Columbia,
Canada).
"When we decided to offer an enhanced 15-meter world dataset for the
visualization and simulation market, we evaluated building a new custom
dataset or leveraging an archived product. We chose TerraColor as the highest
quality off-the-shelf product that still allowed us the ability to customize to meet the needs of our customers in the Visual Simulation and Government markets," said Tom Kubancik, business development for Harris Corporation's ImageLinks Program.
"We are pleased that a company with Harris ImageLinks' extensive satellite
imagery experience has selected our TerraColor imagery as the best 15-meter
global imagery product from which to create their enhanced version," said Eric
Augenstein of Earthstar Geographics.
Earthstar's TerraColor simulated true color satellite imagery provides nearly
seamless, tonally balanced coverage of most of the world's land areas (excluding Antarctica) at 15-meter spatial resolution. The imagery provides colorful, detailed and realistic views of the earth and is suitable for mapping at scales of 1:60,000 and higher. Applications include location-based mapping, land use and vegetation analysis, 3-D visualization, accurate cartographic mapping and many others. See TerraColor.Net for details, or visit Resmap.Com for on-line sales and viewing.
Harris' ImageLinks products provide enhanced imagery for a variety of
visualization applications, including advanced flight simulation and training,
military and defense, national security, and broadcast.