NASA Earth Image pictures

Wired just posted these pictures to their site. These are apparently from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellites and International Space Station astronauts. So you can see images like the one below: Unlike the DigitalGlobe ones, you can only look at these pictures, not vote on which one you like. But they’re interesting […]

A little about buying satellite imagery

Yup–it’s another article for Clearancejobs.com, and you can go here to read it. It’s titled “How to Buy a Satellite,” and while the title is a meant to generate interest, the article is really about how a person or company can “task” DigitalGlobe LEO imagery satellites and the considerations of imagery collection requirements management. Go […]

You can pick DigitalGlobe’s top 5 of 20 images

Occasionally the Huffington Post will post something interesting, like this series of pictures they’re grabbing from DigitalGlobe’s Getty Images page. So, if you don’t have or desire a Facebook or Getty Image account, thank Huffington Post, and look at some great pictures of things on Earth’s surface taken from DigitalGlobe’s polar Low Earth Orbiting satellites. […]

United Nations has a space fleet?

Did you know the United Nations (UN) has a space fleet ready for disasters? The UN doesn’t really run the constellation, but there’s a signed charter, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters, which has about 23 members involved with it. Some United States organizations are members, such as DigitalGlobe (hence Tomnod), National Oceanic and […]

You can sit in a chair at home and help the Philippines

At least you can help find the interesting things with this website: Tomnod. Right now, Tomnod has images of the Philippines and other super typhoon affected countries, from DigitalGlobe’s imagery collections that were taken from their satellites’ payload as they happened to zoom overhead. Tomnod’s is an old idea applied to imagery: crowdsourcing. Let people […]