Title: Disaster Planning
1Disaster Planning Recovery ForumThe role of
satellite imagery
Mark Brender Vice President Communications
Marketing GeoEye March 6, 2008
2Big Bear Glacier, Alaska
3Burning Man Nevada
4Pearl Hermes Atoll
5National Stadium (Bird's Nest) Beijing, China,
2008 Olympic Games
Before Aug 27, 2006
After Oct. 2, 2007
6Evolution of Commercial Satellite Imaging Industry
- 1960 USG Launch of 1st spy satellite
- 1972 USG Landsat satellite (90m)
- 1984 USG Landsat satellite (30m)
- 1986 French SPOT satellite (10m)
- 1988 Russian satellite (7m)
- 1995 Indian satellite (5m)
- 1992 Congress passes Landsat Act
- 1994 Presidential Executive Order
- 1997 US commercial OrbView-2 (1 km)
- 1999 USG Landsat7 (15m)
- 1999 US commercial IKONOS (.82m)
- 2000 Israeli EROS satellite (1.0m)
- 2001 US commercial QuickBird (.61m)
- 2002 CIA Memo to use commercial imagery
- 2003 Presidential Policy on Commercial Remote
Sensing - 2004 US commercial Orbview-3 (1.0m)
- 2007 US commercial WorldView-1 (.5m)
- 2008 GeoEye-1 (.41m or 16in.)
7About GeoEye, Inc.Dulles, VA
- GeoEye is a leading producer of satellite, aerial
and geospatial information - NASDAQ
- Began trading Sept. 14, 2006
- Core Capabilities
- 2 remote-sensing satellites
- Next generation - early 2008
- 2 aircraft with digital mapping capability
- Advanced geospatial imagery processing capability
- Worlds largest satellite image archive 280
Million sq km - GeoEye delivers high quality satellite imagery
and products to better map, measure and monitor
the world
8GeoEye Sensors
GeoEye-1 2008
IKONOS September 1999
OrbView-2 August 1997
MJ Harden Digital Mapping Camera LiDAR
sensors March 2007
GeoEye-2 2011
9How it Works
- Low Earth orbit satellite
- Altitude 423 miles
- Speed 17,000 mph
- 4 miles /second
- Orbits Earth north to south
- 14 times per day
- Collects map accurate imagery of the Earth
- Solar Powered
- 7 year life span
10Who Uses GeoEye Imagery
Niagara Falls, NY
- National Security Intelligence
- Environmental Monitoring
- Online Mapping / Search Engines
- Homeland Defense
- Oil Gas and Mining
- Air and Marine Transportation
- Insurance Risk Management
- Digital Mapping
- Mobile GIS Services
Frankfurt Airport, Germany
11GeoEye-1
See our WorldBetter than Ever
12GeoEye-1 Under Construction General Dynamics
Factory of the Future Phoenix, AZ
Thermal Vacuum Chamber Test FEBRUARY 2008
13Simulated GeoEye-1 High Resolution Image
Denver City County Building
14US Govt. Corona Spy SatelliteFirst Images
Mys Shmidta Air Field, Soviet Union August 18th,
1960
15Satellite Imagery Archive
IKONOS and OrbView-3 archive contains over 300
million sq km of imagery as of March 2008
16Imagery and Disasters
17America Under Attack Defining Moments for the
Commercial Imagery Industry
June 28, 2000
September 15, 2001
World Trade Center Site Before and After
18Regional CrisisFirst Uses of IKONOS
Grozny, Russia1-Meter Black-and-White
March 16, 2000
December 16, 1999
19Darfur, Sudan Human Rights Violations
American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) partnering with Microsoft and
GeoEye to Shed Light
Feb. 20, 2006 Before IKONOS
Dec. 7, 2006 After OV-3
Sudan Tribune reported attack on Nov. 11, 2006 by
suspected Janjaweed on the village of Sirba, in
west Darfur in which 30 people were reported
killed. Our before-and-after imagery reveals
numerous destroyed structures.
20Tornado DamageFort Worth, Texas
March 28, 2000 Tornado
21Tornado Damage Highland, Arkansas
November 24, 2006
February 9, 2008
22Minneapolis, MinnesotaI-35W Bridge Collapse
Before - September 4, 2001
After - August 2, 2007
IKONOS satellite imagery
23Forrest Fires Meyers, California
Before July 19, 2002
After June 29, 2007
IKONOS satellite imagery
24Meyers CA Lake TahoeBurned Homes Had Brush
Nearby
25Hurricane Katrina - Post-Disaster Assessment
New Orleans, Louisiana
26Hurricane KatrinaGulfport, Miss. Before and
After
September 2, 2005
November 24, 2002
27Enoki Tunnel, Niigata, Japan
Pre- and Post-Earthquake Damage
28Bhuj Earthquake NW State of Gujarat , India
The one-meter resolution satellite image (left)
was taken by GeoEyes IKONOS satellite on Feb. 2,
2001 at approximately 1030 a.m. (local time).
The image inset shows extensive damage to
individual buildings as a result of the
earthquake that struck Bhuj on Jan. 26, 2001.
29 Satellite Imagery MapsAccurate and Up-to-Date
Tsunami Damage Map by DLR Image by CRISP
30Tsunami Post-Disaster Assessment
Blue Village Pankarang Resort, Khao Lak, Thailand
Jan. 13, 2003
Dec. 29, 2004
31 Tsunami Post-Disaster Assessment
32Dhaka, Bangladesh - Emergency Flood Relief
August 2004
33OrbView-2 Southern CA Wildfires
34Environmental MonitoringFalse-Color Image
Santa Clarita, CA - Wildfires
35Greensburg Kansas - Tornado DamageMJ Harden
Aerial (Not Satellite) Collection May 12,
2007Provided to Associated Press
DMC Aerial 2 foot resolution
DMC Aerial 1.2 inch resolution
36Climate Change
- Commercial satellite imagery can be used to map
and measure the impact of climate change over
time, on the earths surface - The GeoEye Foundation donates archive imagery to
support university research in environmental
studies - As of February 2008 the Foundation has made 24
awards
IKONOS Bear Glacier, Alaska
37Coral Reef MappingThe canary in the coal mine
Habitat Mapping Using IKONOS ImageryKure Atoll,
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
38Unique Request for ImageryCustom Tasking
- IKONOS tasked by Kentucky Fried Chicken to
rebrand Colonel Sanders - His likeness was created in the Nevada desert
using 67,000 one foot square color tiles
November 16, 2006
39Thank You
http//ImageSearch.GeoEye.com
40Baker Island, Pacific
41Beijing Olympic Venues, China
42French Frigate Shoal
43Orbview-2 - Nile River and the Red Sea
44Durrat El Bahrain
45Libyan Desert
46Orbview-2 - Red Tide Florida Panhandle
47Monte Carlo
48Aerial Imagery - Mt. St. Helens
49Nikumaroro Atoll, Pacific
50Uliaga Island, Alaska
51Winslow Meteor Crater, Arizona