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Garmin Announces BirdsEye Satellite Imagery Subscription

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  • #2
    IrlJidel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭IrlJidel


    The press release is up, looks like imagery will be supplied by DigitalGlobe. How good is their coverage of Ireland?

    http://garmin.blogs.com/pr/2010/01/garmin-launches-birdseye-satellite-and-aerial-imagery.html

    "The data is collected by DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution world-imagery products and services."

    "BirdsEye Satellite and Aerial Imagery will be available in March 2010. For more information, visit www.garmin.com/birdseyesatimagery "


  • #3
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,548 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    It depends .. the very best commercial satellite imagery now is down to sub meter resolutions (about 0.5m), but I don't know whether this will be available. Good quality aerial imagery (from planes) can get down to 10cm in urban areas and 25cm in rural areas. If you look at Google Earth or Maps, the imagery for Ireland is a mish-mash of different resolutions and qualities from different suppliers such as DigitalGlobe, Terrametrics and BlueSky The best quality stuff, such as the coverage of central Dublin, seems to be from Infoterra/BlueSky.


  • #4
    IrlJidel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭IrlJidel


    Here's a coverage map I found:

    http://dgl.us.neolane.net/res/img/d169404bad7be65375a6d2dacb0544ae.pdf


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