SPOT imagery

[Huia]

Kia ora koutou
The following is an extract from a panui regarding SPOT imagery. Some
of you may have received this direct.

I had a look at this imagery at the last ESRI conference and it looks
pretty awesome (the biggest factor of course is the cost). Worthwhile
for people to have a look at of course so if you are able to attend in
person or go to one of the video conferencing venues, I think it would
be beneficial.

Read on....

"On behalf of SPOT Imaging Services, I would like to invite you to
attend a presentation of the new SPOT Maps product. This is tiles of
2.5m colour imagery of all NZ taken over the last 2 years, an ideal
information layer for GIS.

Please find attached an invitation to attend SPOT Imaging Services
presentations on this, plus some sample imagery and an associated
report. This is a product that is gradually rolling out world-wide.
Many countries/regions are available already. Its designed for people
who want the imagery without all the complications of image
processing /as a general GIS data layer.

If you would like to attend the presentations in either Lincoln,
Wellington, Dunedin, or Auckland, please RSVP to SIS as requested as
they’ll need numbers for catering.

Feel free to pass this invitation to your colleagues/clients if you
think it may be of interest to them.

In addition to these presentations, I have reserved the Landcare
Research video conference facilities at our offices in Hamilton,
Palmerston North, and Dunedin for 9-11 a.m. Wednesday 24 February. If
you would like to attend this way, please could you rsvp to me.

If this facility is not going to be taken up, then I’d like to
release the rooms.

For mor information, please contact me.

Regards

Stella Belliss

Remote sensing, Informatics team

Landcare Research

PO Box 40 Lincoln 7640

DDI: 03 321 9612

bell...@landcareresearch.co.nz

[Duane Wilkins]

HI Folks,

We've been using 2.5, 5 and 10 m spot imagery here for vegetation and narcotics analysis. Works good for thematic analysis at that resolution. Also we use Landsat and Aster which are cheaper or mostly free. Spot etc can also do rapid acquisition of recent events, like floods and earthquakes which there is a market for here and there. 

Worth having a look, if you need some updated 2.5m stuff, alternatively if you dont mind dated images, LINZ has a bunch online for free for some areas.

If you do buy spot, my opinin is to specifiy them to be in WGS84, TIFF not jpg for best flexibility in ArcGlobe or other apps. Ideally buy them as a group so that you can share like some of the regional and district councils do, reduces the cost. 

Cheers

Duane.  

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[Kaf Henderson]

Kia ora koutou

Just wondering if anyone went to one of the recent presentations by
Landcare Research? I wasn't able to attend, but as I think someone
already mentioned, this could be a useful dataset for this group to
acquire depending on costs and licensing,.....

Cheers
Kaf

> belli...@landcareresearch.co.nz