Satellite Imagery for Fires

Filed under: 3D Satellite Imagery

While not the happiest, most positive use for satellite images, Wildfire Today blog really shows the value of satellite mapping technology when it comes to the natural disasters of fire which occur on our planet.

Using Google Earth, they are able to accurately display the location of wildfires while they’re occurring.  This has many benefits, not least of which is to check if the homes of yourself or your loved ones are in danger.  Maybe you don’t watch TV or listen to the radio all time and prefer surfing the web.  Well, if that’s the case then Wildfire Today is the fire site for you.

Should I Bring my Raincoat?

Filed under: Satellite maps

For those of us who HATE being caught in a rainstorm unprepared with no umbrella, no boots or *shudder* wearing suede, here’s a good solution for you…

Accuweather.com uses satellite imagery and satellite maps to give you the most accurate and up-to-date weather forecasts you can get.  The site is really robust with features and options like still images, animated weather changes, relevant blogs, forums, predictive radar, a sidebar where you can add as many different cities as you want, for keeping track of climates in multiple locations.  And that’s not even close to everything they offer.

Software Launch Announcement!

Filed under: 3D Satellite Imagery

Just wanted to let you all know that we’re getting ready to launch our brand new software program.

It’s a program that allows you to view the entire earth from space. It’s similar to Google Earth, but we feel that it’s better for several reasons:

First of all, Earth From Orbit’s world view is based on technology developed by NASA scientists, and comes with a Scientific Visualization Viewer, which is really cool. So you can learn a lot about the Earth and the Moon from this program. The whole purpose of Earth from Orbit is to learn and gain understand about your environment and your world.