ImageAmerica: Making Google look better
The acquisition of ImageAmerica by Google was announced this morning on their Lat Long blog. The announcement said that Google has used ImageAmerica’s photographs of hurricane Katrina in the past.
ImageAmerica has patented camera technology and automatic image processing capability. The high resolution orthographic photography can be used in Google Earth and Google Maps.
ImageAmerica produces high resolution digital imagery of an area which can be used to produce highly accurate ortho-imagery maps.
Ortho-imagery is a process that combines elevation with aerial photography and can be used to measure real distances on a map. The accompanying picture, an ortho-image of Huntington Beach, California, is produced by NASA and their World Wind project, a user supported, open source program.
No doubt the acquisition of ImageAmerica is going to move the Google 3D project (sample picture below) along, nicely.
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By Dube on Jul 23, 2007 | Reply
This is really neat.
By Mike on Jul 24, 2007 | Reply
Interesting Google did not do an arrangement with the well-known / established aerial mapping firms like Earthdata, Horizons, Northwest Geomatics, PhotoScience, 3001, Woolpert, Sanborn, etc. that conduct high-resolution data acquisition using the latest generation technology large-format digital sensors.