Off-Site Insight by First Base Solutions

512 RGB Visualizations to choose from The satellite imagery we provide is often ordered as "natural colour" with red, green, and blue spectral bands to simply provide a base layer for mapping in areas where aircraft sourced orthophoto is not available or not current enough. For more sophisticated applications, multi-spectral imagery with 4 bands or 8 bands can be ordered to view imagery in "false colour".

If you've missed our recent lunch & learn event, here's a quick summary of what the combined power of First Base and Planet have to offer Satellite imagery from Planet is ideal for both visual and analytical uses. The agile approach to aerospace allows the entire earth to be captured every single day with a turnaround time of just a few hours. Top uses include: • Engineering • Agriculture • Planning & Design • Natural Resources • Infrastructure • Consulting • Business Intelligence • Crisis Management What's Available? Fresh: New imagery is added daily! Archives: Planet offers hand touched, colour balanced mosaics with low or no cloud. Mosaic basemaps are compiled from the best images weekly, monthly, and quarterly.

Introducing Our Newest Data Partner: Planet Labs Geomatics There's a million new reasons to choose MapWarehouse. First Base Solutions has entered a new reseller agreement with Planet Labs Geomatics , a provider of commercial satellite imagery, to bring over 1,000,000 square km of new Ontario imagery to MapWarehouse , and that's just the beginning!

Top 6 trends of 2016 With 2016 now behind us, it’s now time to look ahead, and discuss what industry experts predict to be the prevailing trends for GIS and Geo-Spatial Technologies for 2017, and more importantly, what it means for you and your business. Lets begin by looking at the prevailing long term trends that should continue through the next 5 years. Then we will identify the short-term 2017 trends that are expected to grow.

Answer a few simple questions to find out if you really need new aerial imagery They're not rainbows, it's the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, (i.e. light) the very stuff we capture for you in aerial photography. Download the infographic below to figure out what mapping data you need for your project and the best way to get it.

Plane or satellite, both are great options Download the infographic below to find a solution for every industry.

Finding terrain mapping can be an uphill battle Elevation data from FBS is usually sold as either DEM with spot heights and break lines, or, as 1m interval contour lines derived from those DEM, but, we have a few other products you might not know about.

DON'T PANIC FBS is a satellite imagery provider. We work with DigitalGlobe to bring you the most advanced commercial space imagery in the universe. Ordering is kind of complicated though, so leave that part to us.

Look past the price tag to see real value Here we reviewed the differences between aerial and satellite imagery and how to download it for CAD and GIS projects. But what if you just need access to view the imagery outside of a traditional desktop mapping software?

You've got options when it comes to sourcing imagery Did you know the free imagery you see online is a composite of different sources? Look through the historical imagery on Google Earth and you'll see FBS's own orthophoto when zoomed in for maximum detail. If you need to download this type of imagery - aerial or satellite - and use it locally, FBS can help you navigate the ordering process for archived imagery, or arrange a fresh, custom collection. Even if you don't see it on MapWarehouse, we can get it for you!   Related: Ordering Imagery From The Final Frontier [Cheat Sheet]

So... what exactly am I paying for? Do you know what vital piece of information you need to plan your project and can't find it? Maybe you're not even sure where to begin looking. Start by checking out the essential cheat sheets below - and visit FBS University for more reference materials and free sample data . What's available? How is a data product different from a similar data product? What formats are available? Who uses it and what's it for? How to get it? Related: Saving, Surfing, or Streaming? How to choose the data delivery method that's right for your project

Get up to 35% off 30cm imagery Earlier this year, DigitalGlobe moved the industry a major step forward with the introduction of 30 cm imagery. Our customers can experience this groundbreaking product at promotional pricing which takes effect immediately and continues through December 31, 2015. Under this program, the price of 30cm imagery has been reduced by up to 35%.

Respond quickly and be certain about the ground conditions. Armed with up to date information, you'll be able to avoid danger and direct resources where they're needed with confidence that you're making good decisions when there's a lot on the line and little time for planning.  For emergency response, peacekeeping, humanitarian aid & disaster relief, aerial surveillance is the best way to stay on top of a quickly developing situation.

How spatial data is being used in natural resources & environmental applications. Canada is big. Our watersheds and forest corridors cover vast areas, often spanning several administrative regions. For this reason, it can be difficult to effectively monitor and communicate the conditions of the environment as it changes, and also difficult to reach consensus on a plan of action and coordinate on policies between jurisdictions. Lack of coordination between regional governing bodies, short sighted planning and rapid land development have been the peril of the natural environment over the last 100 years or more. Habitat loss, erosion, soil and groundwater depletion and contamination have all taken a toll, and now ambitious plans to mitigate further damage are needed to aid recovery, not just for the intrinsic value of nature, but also for the sustainability of food production, water, air and climate.

Shopping is hard. How to decide? So, you’ve seen your competition submitting proposal after proposal with stunning maps and images detailing the planned work. Even though your idea is better, you’re having trouble expressing clearly what you can do to the decision maker whose probably spending a minimal amount of time flipping through each proposal and needs to be impressed quickly.

Watch live coverage of the launch     Markham, ON, Wednesday, August 13, 2014 – With just a few hours left, we are eagerly anticipating the launch of WorldView-3, DigitalGlobe’s most sophisticated high resolution imaging satellite ever put into orbit! Watch the launch live August 13, 2014 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California at 2:30 p.m. EDT via the ground-to-orbit webcast provided by United Launch Alliance. Tune in about 20 minutes early and you’ll be able to hear the countdown!

Chapter Review: Tracking Animals in a Dynamic Environment: Remote Sensing Image Time Series   Prominent theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking tells us that time is a property of matter, just like colour, mass, or temperature; without matter, time does not exist. Doc Brown in the Back To The Future movie trilogy tells us we must think fourth dimensionally in order to travel through time safely. The reality is, everyone and everything is traveling through time, all day, every day, at the minuscule but consistent rate of one second per second. Unfortunately for us in the mapping biz, this time travel stuff really complicates things since our traditional paper maps are only 2-dimensional and digital mapping is 3-dimensional at best. Since the beginning of, er… well, time, incorporating temporal information into spatial models has been challenging and is often outright excluded from consideration. Since time affects so much of the world around us, it just makes good sense to...

How to Source Commercial Satellite Imagery When Google Earth was launched in 2005, high resolution satellite imagery suddenly became easily accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.  Much of this high-resolution imagery (50-60 cm) is provided by Digital Globe and can be used for a wide range of commercial applications such as urban planning, engineering, utilities and more.  Satellite imagery is a great option for mapping large, remote or inaccessible areas where orthophoto is not available.  So, how is the imagery captured, and how can a commercial user purchase the imagery?