Image gallery

Browse through the image gallery updated every month with topical featured image.

 
GeoEye-1 image, (resolution 0.5 m, 7.12.2011), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA, © 2011 GeoEye - The day of 70th Anniversary of the the Pearl Harbor Attack. The USS Missouri, a museum battleship, docked at Battleship Row near the sunken battleship USS Arizona.

01/12

 NPP / VIIRS image (resolution 400 m, 21.11.2011), Florida, Cuba and Bahamas, © 2011 NASA - The newest US’ Earth-observing satellite NPP was launched on October 28, 2011, reached its final orbit at an altitude of 824 km and acquired its first image of eastern North America.

13/11

 EarthObserving-1 image (resolution 10 m, 22.10.2011), Puyehue-Cordón Caulle, Chile, © 2011 NASA - The eruption at Chile’s volcano Puyehue-Cordón Caulle. Five months of volcanic activity has covered the plains in gray ash and occasionally disrupting air travel in Argentina and Uruguay.

12/11

 AQUA / MODIS image (500 m resolution, 26.9.2011), Queensland, Australia, © 2011 NASA - The spectroradiometer MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite detected several fires burning in Queensland. The landscape is extremely prone to fire and burns dangerously easily.

11/11
ENVISAT / MERIS image (300 m resolution, 17.7.2011), Barents Sea, Copyright © 2011 ESA - Although the Barents Sea is off the coast of mainland Europe’s most northern point, this part remains ice-free due to the warm North Atlantic Drift and is full of blooming phytoplankton.

10/11

 ISS Digital Camera image (10.07.2011), Space Shuttle Atlantis over Bahamas, © 2011 NASA - The space shuttle Atlantis during the last flight of all space shuttles approaches the International Space Station for docking. Beneath it lie the Long Island of Bahamas.

09/11

 EarthObserving-1 / ALI image (10 m resolution, 29.6.2011), Eritrea, East Africa, © 2011 NASA - The Eritrean volcano Nabro began its eruption explosively on June 12, 2011. The later quiter lava-oozing phase is shown in this image from the sensor ALI on EarthObserving-1 satellite.

08/11

 ENVISAT / MERIS image (300 m resolution, 01.11.2010), Mauritania, Copyright © 2010 ESA - This Envisat image captures the remarkable circular Richat structure, also known as the Eye of the Sahara. This geological phenomena in northern Africa has a diameter of 50km (=31mi).

07/11
ENVISAT / MERIS image (300 m resolution, 23.05.2010), Ireland, Copyright © 2010 ESA - Colors of Northern Atlantic Ocean captured in the image taken by MERIS sensor aboard the european Envisat satellite. Green Ireland, white clouds and electric blue blooming plankton.

06/11

 Ikonos image (1 m resolution, 28.04.2011), Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, Copyright © 2011 GeoEye - The image shows an overview of the path of destruction (almost an eraser effect) of the devastation to Tuscaloosa after a massive tornado touched down on April 27, 2011.

05/11

 Ikonos image (1 m resolution, 12.03.2011), Ishinomaki, Japan, Copyright © 2011 GeoEye - This image was taken one day after a earthquake unleashed a tsunami and struck the Japan. This is the fifth largest earth- quake recorded in history and the largest to hit Japan.

04/11

 DEIMOS-1 image (22 m resolution, 12.11.2010), Poyang Lake, China, © DEIMOS IMAGING 2010 - Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China. This image, acquired by Deimos-1, the Spain’s first Earth-imaging satellite, shows Poyang Lake at the beginning of the dry season.

03/11
AQUA / MODIS image (500 m resolution, 21.12.2010), Atlantic coast of Patagonia, © 2010 NASA - The image of a phytoplankton bloom off of the coast of Patagonia. The seven spectral bands were used to highlight the differences in this microscopic, floating plants communities.

02/11

 GeoEye-1 image (50cm resolution, 9.2.2010), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Copyright © 2011 GeoEye - Nowadays the tallest man-made structure ever built is Burj Khalifa ("Khalifa Tower"), 828 m tall, 163 habitable floors, officially opened and named to honour the UAE President on 4 January 2010.

01/11

 ASTER image, Erebus glacier, Ross Island, Antarctica © NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS 2001 - Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Many thanks to all of our clients, partners, colleagues and friends for their patronage throughout the year.

14/10

 GeoEye-1 image (50 cm resolution, 8.7.2010), Namib Desert, Namibia, Copyright © GeoEye 2010 - Here, in the heart of the Namib Desert, the world’s tallest sand dunes rise over 300 meters high. The interaction between wind and sand formed this amazing and vast desert’s patterns.

13/10
TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X Formation data (resolution 12m, 19.10.2010), Mount Etna, Italy, © DLR - The TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X Formation has recorded its first synchronous data pair while flying across the Italian Mount Etna. Based on this dataset, the 3D elevation model was created.

12/10

 EarthObserving-1 image (resolution 10 m, 9.10.2010), town Kolontar, Hungary, © 2010 NASA - On October 4, 2010, an accident occurred at the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant. A corner wall of a waste-retaining pond broke, releasing a torrent of toxic red sludge down a local stream.

11/10

 TERRA / ASTER image (30m resolution, August 2010), Chuginadak, Aleutian archipelago. © 2010 NASA - The islands contain restless Mt. Cleveland, an active volcano currently being watched to see if it emits an ash cloud that could affect air travel over parts of North America.

10/10

 TERRA / MODIS image (500 m resolution, 28.08.2005), Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Katrina © 2010 NASA - To commemorate the disaster five years later, NASA is revisiting the Hurricane Katrina with the photos and videos that show the storm as captured by NASA satellites.

09/10
TanDEM-X imagery (3m resolution, 22.7.2010), Severnaya Zemlya, Arctic Ocean, Russia, © DLR - First DEMs created from radar data collected by the Terra SAR-X and TanDEM-X. In the centre are the ice floes 3-10m high above the sea, on the left is the rocky coast of the island.

08/10

 QuickBird image (60cm resolution, 11.03.2010), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Copyright © 2010 DigitalGlobe - This satellite image is of Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi. This first theme park around the Ferrari brand, will feature a racetrack, theater complex and miscellaneous driving activities.

07/10

 ENVISAT / MERIS image (300 m resolution, 21.04.2010), Somalia, Copyright © 2010 ESA - MERIS is instrument flying on ENVISAT satellite. It is spectrometer providing measurements in 15 spectral bands of visual and Near Infra-Red light.

06/10

 QuickBird image (60cm resolution, 29.5.2009), port Cotonou, Benin, © 2009 DigitalGlobe Inc. - Satellite imagery are a tool for mapping of any place. We search archive imagery or order programming request to acquire new imagery according to your needs.

05/10
ASTER image (15m resolution, 23.08.2000), Bombetoka, Madagascar © 2010 NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC - ASTER is a multispectral imaging instrument flying on Terra satellite from 1999, providing measurements in 14 spectral bands with high spatial, spectral and radiometric resolution.

04/10

 WorldView-2 Image (0.5m resolution, 01.03.2010), Santiago, Chile, Copyright © 2010 DigitalGlobe - This is a natural color, very high-resolution WorldView-2 satellite image showing the city Santiago in Chile after the earthquake that struck on February 27th.

03/10

 WorldView-1 Image (0.5m resolution, 13.01.2010), Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Copyright © 2010 DigitalGlobe - On January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Haiti and only one day after, the Digital Globe´s satellite WorldView-1 collected the image of Port-au-Prince and surrounding area.

02/10

 QuickBird Image (0.6m resolution, 15.01.2010), Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Copyright © 2010 DigitalGlobe - After the earthquake on January 12, because of damage analysis, Port-au-Prince become one of the most photographed places on Earth. Here you can see displaced people in soccer field.

01/10
Mosaic of MODIS Images (from June through September 2001), Copyright © 2002 NASA, VisibleEarth - The information contained in this composite image came mostly from a remote-sensing device - NASA’s MODIS, flying over 700 km above the Earth onboard the Terra satellite.

12/09

 WorldView-2 Image (0.5m resolution, 20.10.2009), Sydney Opera House, Copyright © 2009 DigitalGlobe - One of the first WorldView-2 images. WorldView-2 is the first and so far the only very-high-resolution commercial satellite that provides 8-band multispectral imagery

11/09

 QuickBird image (resolution 60cm, 1.10.2009), Beijing, China, Copyright © 2009 DigitalGlobe - The Chinese imperial palace in Beijing. For five centuries it served as the home of the Emperors. Although called "Forbidden City", now it can not be forbidden for satellites´ eyes.

10/09

 Ikonos image (1m resolution, 26.4.2009), power plant of Počerady, Copyright © 2009 GeoEye - Old faithful Ikonos satellite launched in September 1999 acquires 1m resolution images for 10 years and it goes on. It was the first commercial satellite with 1m resolution.

09/09
RapidEye-4 Choros image, (5m resolution) 11.12.2008, the Moon, Copyright © 2008 RapidEye AG - Although the satellites of the RapidEye's system are intended for remote sensing of the Earth, they were programmed to take the images of the moon as part of the calibration task.

08/09

 RapidEye-2 image (5m resolution, 14.6.2009), city of Kopřivnice, Copyright © 2009 RapidEye - One of the RapidEye images acquired over the area of the Czech Republic. The pentad of RapidEye satellites allow so far unprecedented one-day revisit rate at 5m spatial resolution.

07/09

 QuickBird image (60cm resolution, false color, 29.2.2008), Socotra island, © 2008 DigitalGlobe Inc. - This image was used by the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology of MUAF in Brno to map populations of endemic species of Dracaena cinnabari on the Socotra island.

06/09

 GeoEye-1 image (50cm resolution, 3.5.2009), city of Vlašim, Copyright © 2009 GeoEye - One of the first GeoEye image acquired over the area of the Czech Republic. Nowadays these are the most detailed commercially available satellite imagery.

05/09
QuickBird imagery (60cm resolution, 22.1.2009), Ordzhonikidzeabad, Tajikistan, © 2009 DigitalGlobe Inc. - Satellite imagery are a tool for mapping of any place. We search archive imagery or order programming request to acquire new imagery according to your needs.

04/09

 PALSAR image (resolution 20m, 8.5.2008), Třeboň region, © METI&JAXA [2008], Distributed by ERSDAC - PALSAR is the L-band microwave sensor on board the ALOS satellite that acquires radar imagery in multiple polarization modes and multiple spatial resolution.

03/09

 Kompsat-2 image (resolution 1m, 18.8.2008), Baku (Azerbaijan), © KARI [2008], Distributed by SpotImage - This image has been processed by Gisat in the frame of Respond project to produce up-to-date 1:10 000 / 25 000 maps in response to the World Bank request.

02/09

 GeoEye-1 image (10.1.2009), Hoover Dam on the Colorado river, Copyright © 2009 GeoEye - Are you interested in "1-meter" satellite imagery? We provide images acquired by GeoEye-1 , WorldView-1, QuickBird, IKONOS, Kompsat-2, EROS-B, OrbView-3, ...

01/09
Terra / MODIS image, eastern coast of Greenland © 2001 NASA - The mental picture of the Christmas season most people wish for, as seen on winter imagery from TERRA MODIS satellite acquired over Greenland PF2009 Gisat

12/08

 COSMO-SkyMed strip mode image - Richat Structure, Mauretania © 2008 ASI & Italian MoDef - The COSMO-SkyMed is a constellation of four radar satellites for Earth observation featuring all-weather day/night global coverage with very high resolution and rapid response.

11/08

 RapidEye image (spatial resolution 5m, 21.10.2008), El Bolsón (Argentina), Copyright © 2008 RapidEye - RapidEye released the first image taken from one of its five RapidEye satellites that will guarantee so far unprecedented one-day revisit rate at 5m spatial resolution.

10/08

 GeoEye-1 image (resolution 50cm, 7.10.2008), Kutztown University (USA), Copyright © 2008 GeoEye - GeoEye, Inc. released the first, color half-meter ground resolution image taken from its GeoEye-1 satellite. The satellite's commercial operations shall start later this fall.

09/08
WorldView 1 image (spatial resolution 50cm, 12.7.2008), Beijing, Copyright © 2008 DigitalGlobe - Known as the “Bird’s Nest” not only for its unique elliptical architecture, the Beijing National Stadium is the iconic center point of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

08/08

 Ikonos image (spatial resolution 1m, 31.5.2008), City of Lanškroun, Copyright © 2008 GeoEye - GeoEye-1 is to be launched in August. The successor of IKONOS will have the highest resolution of any commercial satellite - 0.41m in panchromatic and 1.65m in multispectral mode.

07/08

 Vegetation (in red) on EO-1 ALI data (pan-sharpened 10m resolution), 25.01.2004, Bam, Iran © USGS - Optical data of the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) instrument on EO-1 satellite (7x MS bands [30m] + PAN [10m]) represents actual option prior to the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM).

06/08

 TerraSAR-X (StripMap, 3m, 5.5.2008), NW of Mlada Boleslav, TerraSAR-X Services © Infoterra GmbH - TerraSAR-X satellite succesfully entered into commercial phase. It offers wide range of image products especially for applications that require guaranteed image acquisition.

05/08
Pansharpened ALOS data (AVNIR2+PRISM) with 2.5 resolution © 2006 RESTEC, Included @ JAXA - ALOS satellite delivers data from three on-board instruments: active microwave sensor (PALSAR), visible / near-infrared radiometer (AVNIR2) and PRISM - radiometer for stereo mapping.

04/08

 SPOT 5 MS (10m spatial resoution), desert region in Algeria, “Distributed by SpotImage, © CNES [2007]” - SPOT 5 satellite represents big success of SPOT series. Worldwide archive of multispectral and panchromatic scenes with spatial resolution up to 2.5m is available since 2002.

03/08

 IRS P6 LISS-III (23.5m, 18.6.2005), Around Roudnice, Original data by EUROMAP GmbH, © ANTRIX, SI - ResourceSat-1 (IRS P6) represents 10th of the serie of Indian IRS satellites. Since 2003 it acquires satellite imagery suitable for regional mapping and land use/land cover monitoring.

02/08

 RADARSAT-2 Fine Quad-Pol image (8m resolution, 7.1.2008), Baffin Island © MDA Ltd. (2008) - First RADARSAT-2 imagery are available one month after the succesfull launch in December. The satellite acquires radar images with the spatial resolution up to 3m.

01/08
White Christmas on TERRA ASTER imagery © NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS [2001] - The mental picture of the Christmas season most people wish for, as seen on winter imagery from TERRA ASTER satellite acquired in Antarctica PF2008 Gisat

13/07

 TerraSAR-X multitemporal image (26.6.+ 7.7.2007), Northwestern of Munich © Infoterra GmbH / DLR - The commercial operations of the TerraSAR-X satellite will commence in January 2008. It is the first radar satellite acquiring data with up to 1m spatial resolution.

12/07

 Foliage time on Envisat/MERIS image © ESA [2007] - The image highlights the orange autumn foliage of the forested areas in the basin of the Great Lakes (USA/Canada) as seen on the MERIS instrument aboard ESA’s Envisat satellite.

11/07

 WorldView-1 image of Yokohama city (Japan) acquired October 5, 2007 © DigitalGlobe [2007] - DigitalGlobe has released first images acquired by WorldView-1 satellite which delivers the most detailed satellite imagery (50cm spatial resolution) available so far.

10/07
Greece Fires on August 28, 2007 as seen on Landsat 7 image © USGS/EROS [2007] - This image of southern Greece captured after deadly wildfires shows how using satellite imagery burned areas (in red) can be effectively detected and restoration acreages counted.

09/07

 Hurricane Dean passing off the South coast of Haiti as seen in MERIS image © ESA [2007] - European ENVISAT satellite acquires MERIS imagery in one-day frequency. At the time of image acquisition, Dean was a Category-4 hurricane with winds at 230 km per hr.

08/07

 Image showing city of Vimperk in spatial resolution of 70cm, © 2007 ImageSat International N.V. - EROS B satellite acquires B&W data for more than 1 year. ImageSat became the first non-U.S. company to operate a commercial VHR satellite with sub-meter resolution.

07/07

 Tsimlyanskoye reservoir (50km west of Volgograd, Russia), image with 15m spatial resolution © DLR, Astrium - First TerraSAR-X images are available in a record time of 4 days after the succesfull launch on June 15, 2007. It is the first satellite acquiring radar imagery with 1m spatial resolution.

06/07