The program includes a wide range of streams from emergency management, agriculture, environmental and water ressources management, community & planning, surveying. This event is a great opportunity to broaden your knowledge of new applications and developments in the spatial information community.
Apogee will be giving a presentation on Spatial information in precision agriculure and FARMIMAGE® and will be present at booth #3 and #4.

Please come and visit our booth to learn about our capabilites and discuss any requirement you may have. We are looking forward to see you at the event.

The new exciting sensors from our perspective include Tandem-X, Tandem-L, Desdyni, Biomass, SMOS and SMAP. Radar seems to be playing a huge role in future missions and there are going to be more space borne Lidars. The focus is on reliable global observation of the terrain independent of weather. There is some importance in observation of land and ocean weather as well, but using tried and tested methods. If the human impact on global warming is in debate, the human impact on clarity of earth observation is certainly being felt. Some of the most sensitive L-band radiometers are being affected by the microwave glow over Europe, India and China.

Figure 6: Tandem-L mission concept with two acquisition modes.

The techniques are evolving to allow more and more automation as the data volume out-paces the availability of skilled human interpreters. New classification techniques, particularly segmentation, support vector machines, random forests and active learning are becoming more popular.

All these focus on applications with commercial, administrative and environmental implications. On the forefront is biomass estimation for balancing the carbon budget. Then there is urban impact assessment and mapping. Urbanization is proceeding at an unprecedented rate and many governments are struggling to map new urban developments. There are also global mapping projects using ALOS-PALSAR and LandSAT. There is focus on community remote sensing. Some agricultural applications are also becoming important as the efficiency required for production increases.

Overall the conference was exciting enough to keep us in-doors in-spite of the great weather outside in Waikiki.

Extent of the massive Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 25-29 April 2010

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The picture below shows the extent of the oil spill between the 25th-1st May 2010.

Extent of the massive Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 25-1st May 2010

Organized by the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute, this international congress will be the opportunity to meet scientists, government and professionals from all around the world.

The programme of the congress will offer technical and poster sessions, several workshops, seminar and forums.

Apogee Imaging International will be present at the event and will have a booth opened from 9am-5.30pm except Thursday 15th with a 11am closing time

Please come and see us at booth number 9A and find out more about the NEXTMAP Australia Program as well as FARMIMAGE®, a new generation 3D management system for agribusiness.

We are looking forward to meeting with you to discuss your requirements and demonstrate our capabilities.

The property at Cubbie Station has seen their dams filled with more than welcome water and there is promise of satisfying environmental and commercial demands along the parched system.
Apogee and Infoterra have utilised TerraSAR-X’ s ability to provide high resolution images that are not affected by cloud conditions to map the record breaking flood extents. The first TSX ScanSAR scene over the property was acquired on the 4th March 2010 and further scenes are scheduled to capture conditions at peak levels.
The image below shows the geographic position of the 100km x150km TSX ScanSAR scene acquired on the 4th of March 2010 overlaid on a MODIS image from the same day, highlighting the prevailing cloud cover at the time.

MODIS image over Queensland flooded area overlaid with a TerraSAR-X ScanSAR scene

Below are three subsets of the TSX image over Cubbie station and surrounding areas with evidence of the early stages of the flooding mapped in Blue, that is already filling water storages.(for large images, please visit Our Spatial Planet.

TerraSAR-X subset over Cubbie Station showing flooded areas, Queensland

TerraSAR-X subset over Cubbie Station showing flooded areas, Queensland

TerraSAR-X subset over Cubbie Station showing flooded areas, Queensland

This event will provide professionals with the latest innovations and developments in emergency response technology, surveillance technology, communications and remote-sensing services for emergency.

This event will be a great opportunity for networking with decision-makers from all around the world in all areas of public safety communication and will feature an outstanding educational forum with presentations on homeland security and public safety.

Please come and see Apogee at booth number 4. We are looking forward to meeting with you to discuss your requirements and demonstrate our capabilities.

Apogee Imaging International was present at this event and John Douglas, Managing Director, as well as several of Apogee’s staff presented and demonstrated FarmImage®, a new online spatial management system for agribusiness, in association with Landmark.

 A number of national and international speakers representing all agribusiness industries presented a highly interesting program focused on soil moisture monitoring, integrated precision Viticulture, and practical use of ground and remote-sensed sensors.

John Douglas presenting FARMIMAGE(R) at the SPAA conference in Clare

The event was sponsored by leading companies involved in precision farming in Australia and booths from each sponsor gave visitors an impressive overview of products and services. Many leading companies were sponsoring this event with new guidance, flow & application control devices available for demonstration purposes.

It was great to have such a diversified group of people sharing their knowledge, experience and skills in precision agriculture and we are looking forward to the next SPAA conference.

Displacement Map from TerraSAR-X

The largest disaster of 2010 so far continues to unfold. Aftershocks are hitting Haiti. Understanding the dynamics of the fault is crucial for planning evacuation and relief operations. TerraSAR-X can image the whole affected area independent of cloud conditions. Using correlation matching DLR extracted the east-west and north-south shifts. The results show upto 2.8m shift along the fault line.

The openlayers project and telascience have started putting together a web portal for the data flowing through from the disaster charter and other sources. EROS imagery shown in the previous post will be available soon.

Haiti UAV Imagery

Overview of Haiti and location of the epicenter of the 7.0 magnitude Earthquake which has struck near the capital Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince international airport where relief workers are setting up temporary shelters around the runway.

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Cathedral before and after the earthquake.
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Presidential Palace before and after the earthquake.

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People gathered in public squares before and after the earthquake.

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Buildings before and after the earthquake.

Please contact Apogee for any requests regarding imagery over the affected areas of Port-au-Prince.