DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), one of 8C’s founding sponsors, has been featured on this blog many times. And, for good reason. This Longmont, Colo.-based global provider of commercial high-resolution world-imagery products and services, has lots of news to tell. The most recent is its announcement last week that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) to launch the Clear30 program, an initiative to distribute the first-ever high-resolution, 30-cm aerial imagery of contiguous landscapes, initially in the U.S. and Western Europe. These orthophoto mosaics will be available through Microsoft’s Bing Maps and through DigitalGlobe channels. Check out the specifics here.
The Clear30 initiative will use the UltraCamG, a large format digital aerial camera manufactured by Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, which is based on Vexcel’s UltraCam large format camera systems, the top-selling large format aerial sensors internationally. The addition of large quantities of very high-resolution digital aerial imagery, which can now be collected quickly and published on a consistent schedule, Clear30 will further enhance both companies’ ability to distribute a comprehensive digitized globe to their customers. Imagery from the UltraCamG will further expand DigitalGlobe’s industry leading ImageLibrary and will complement the satellite imagery products available from the DigitalGlobe high-resolution satellite constellation, including the recently launched WorldView-2 satellite. Current collection areas for the UltraCamG program include the contiguous U.S. and Western Europe.
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