Map data will continue to evolve-only a limited amount of high-resolution satellite imagery is currently available.
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Skybox Imaging is betting that satellite imagery circa 2012 is like GPS location circa 1998.
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The Athenian Metropolitan Authority studied satellite imagery of the metropolis and found almost 17, 000 privately-owned pools!
DigitalGlobe, a company that provides satellite imagery, said the photos were taken Sunday over North Korea.
The UNEP issued a report on Wednesday that includes analysis and satellite imagery of the turnaround.
But be careful--one technical glitch and this satellite imagery stock could fall out of orbit.
Hence large areas with satellite imagery that is 4 or more years old.
GeoEye captures, manages and sells high-resolution satellite imagery, the kind found on Yahoo!
Based on commercial satellite imagery, Jane's' analysts concluded that Syria was expending significant efforts to update its chemical weapons facilities.
And the truth is that we can actually monitor a lot of what takes place through satellite imagery and so forth.
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Earlier Mr Annan's spokesman, Ahmed Fawzi, said satellite imagery showed the Syrian government was failing to withdraw heavy weapons from urban centres.
So if you take a chance on GeoEye, you'd better have confidence that federal funding for private-sector satellite imagery won't dry up.
This is the first time in Wyoming's history that anyone has used satellite imagery and forgery experts to wage an irrigation war.
One of the most hyped additions to iOS 6 has been the Maps application, which includes Siri navigation, 3D building view and satellite imagery.
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On Friday, two Defense Department officials said the latest U.S. satellite imagery has spotted "vehicle activity" at a North Korean ballistic missile facility.
The market for sub one metre satellite imagery has become dominated in recent years by two US companies - DigitalGlobe and GeoEye.
On the positive side, our timing was good with bullish calls on green power play FuelCell Energy and satellite imagery provider GeoEye.
The CIA and other military and government agencies make frequent use of satellite imagery to monitor things like troop and weapons movements around the world.
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Satellite imagery in recent months has shown construction work at the Yongbyon plant but it's not clear how much progress North Korea has already made.
The report said satellite imagery showed there was work in Qom between 2002 and 2004, and that this had resumed in 2006 and "continued to date".
The analysis from 38 North, the website of the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Baltimore, was based on satellite imagery.
The company books half its revenues from the U.S. government, namely the NextView satellite imagery program, run by the Department of Defense's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
It is highly unlikely that North Korea will give access to the investigators, so the panel will have to rely on satellite imagery and testimony from defectors.
By combining monochromatic and color images to sharpen the focus of the satellite imagery, the science teams were able to then differentiate between birds, guano and shadow.
In the past getting satellite imagery of warfare and the like would take months and not be public if at all until after a conflict is over.
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While typically monitored through satellite imagery direct validation of chlorophyll blooms at this resolution provides a groundbreaking link between scientific modeling and in-situ measurement of the Pacific Ocean.
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Global Zero has mapped them using commercially available satellite imagery.
Satellite imagery and street mapping available on a single view.
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Basically, the company can acquire all kinds of data from governments, cars driving the streets, satellite imagery, private data stores but humans must compile all these things.
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According to analysis of satellite imagery by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, it is greatly expanding its capacity to produce weapons-usable plutonium, as well as uranium.
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