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Track: Application Development Techniques
Ronald Elsis
Space Imaging
9351 Grant Street Suite 500
Thornton, CO 80229
Telephone: 303-254-2057
Fax: 303-254-2215
E-mail: relsis@spaceimage.com
Visualizing Your Land Base
Defining Issue: One-meter satellite-based digital orthoimagery provides more than traditional land base solutions. Space Imaging is developing applications that allow the user to "visualize" their land base. GIS Solution: Space Imaging, in coordination with several utility companies, government agencies, and insurance companies, is developing temporal applications derived from the digital orthoimage land base. Right-of-way management, hazard/disaster management, and other change detection analyses are just a few of the time-critical services that can be provided. Methodology: The new constellation of 1-meter satellites to be launched in 1997 provides the capability to create a digital orthoimage land base significantly faster than previous methods. In addition, because of the frequent revisit capability of these satellites, time critical services can now be provided. For example, if a hurricane hits the Florida coastline, imagery of the area before and immediately after the natural disaster can be
used to "visualize" the area to compare and assess the damage. This information will be used by utility companies, government agencies, and insurance companies to dispatch the necessary services, enabling quick decision making and problem solving. Software: Space Imaging is developing proprietary high-speed image processing algorithms and integrating necessary spatial attribute information that will allow ArcView or ArcInfo users to "visualize" their digital orthoimage land base. The purpose of this paper is to outline the various applications that can be derived from this existing land base.
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