DigitalGlobe Announces Global 8-Band Research Challenge to Leverage Unique Satellite Capability
July 27 2010 - 7:30AM
Marketwired
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global content provider of
high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today announced the
DigitalGlobe 8-Band Research Challenge, a contest designed to
encourage researchers to investigate how 8-band, high-resolution
imagery can enhance image analysis and classification research. The
8-band data is unique in the marketplace to DigitalGlobe, as a
result of the newest commercial satellite WorldView-2 launched in
October of 2009.
The call for proposals is open now, and will close on August 31,
2010. All accepted proposals will receive a limited quantity of
free 8-band imagery in order to conduct their research and submit a
final paper for review. A panel of experts selected by DigitalGlobe
will review these papers and select five winners, each of whom will
receive a $5,000 grant and an invitation to present their findings
at the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India in January.
One of WorldView-2's unique characteristics is its eight
high-resolution multispectral bands, which are proving very
valuable for advanced remote sensing applications, such as
vegetative analysis, bathymetry and land use/land cover. The first
commercial high-resolution satellite to offer this capability,
WorldView-2's eight bands in the visible to near-infrared range,
combined with two meter multispectral resolution, offer imagery
users a finer level of discernment and allows them to analyze
information in new ways.
"We're excited about the potential for the 8-Band Research
Challenge," said Walter Scott, CTO of DigitalGlobe. "This is a
truly unique opportunity for DigitalGlobe to work directly with the
scientific community in an effort to develop preemptive,
value-added imagery applications. We are confident the scientific
community's most gifted minds will develop solutions to pressing
market challenges with this unprecedented access to our
technology."
For official rules and conditions regarding the 8-Band Research
Challenge, please visit www.digitalglobe.com/8bandchallenge
About DigitalGlobe Longmont,
Colorado-based DigitalGlobe (http://www.digitalglobe.com) is a
leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery
products and services. Sourced from our own advanced satellite
constellation, our imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses
within defense, intelligence, and homeland security applications,
mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas
exploration, infrastructure management, internet portals and
navigation technology. With our collection sources and
comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more than 1 billion square
kilometers of earth imagery and imagery products) we offer a range
of on- and off-line products and services designed to enable
customers to easily access and integrate our imagery into their
business operations and applications. For more information, please
visit www.digitalglobe.com.
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