DigitalGlobe 8-Band Research Challenge Garners Over 350 Entries From More Than 70 Countries
August 19 2010 - 5:00PM
Marketwired
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global content provider of
high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today announced it had
received more than 350 entries for the DigitalGlobe 8-Band Research
Challenge to date. Submissions have been received from
universities, private industry and scientific organizations in over
70 countries around the world since the call for proposals opened
on August 1, 2010.
Overall enthusiasm for the challenge has been very high.
Scientists are proposing to leverage 8-band imagery to address
questions of land use/land cover, vegetative analysis, feature
extraction and bathymetry, as they apply to various industries
including environmental, telecom, oil and gas and civil government.
The 8-Band Challenge represents an unprecedented collaboration
between private enterprise and the scientific community to
understand the true power of 8-band imagery and support its
usability in the commercial market.
"We have been overwhelmed by the interest this challenge has
received in just the first two weeks," said Walter Scott, CTO of
DigitalGlobe. "The scientific community has really risen to the
challenge and we are looking forward to exploring their innovative
applications of DigitalGlobe's unique 8-band imagery."
DigitalGlobe 8-Band Research Challenge is a contest designed to
encourage researchers to investigate how 8-band, high-resolution
imagery can enhance image analysis and classification research. The
8-band data is unique in the marketplace to DigitalGlobe, a result
of the company's newest commercial satellite WorldView-2, launched
in October of 2009. Accepted proposals will receive a limited
quantity of free 8-band imagery in order to conduct their research
and submit a final paper for review.
The call for proposals will close on August 31, 2010. For
official rules and conditions regarding the 8-Band Research
Challenge, please visit www.digitalglobe.com/8bandchallenge
About DigitalGlobe Longmont,
Colorado-based DigitalGlobe (http://www.digitalglobe.com) is a
leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery
products and services. Sourced from our own advanced satellite
constellation, our imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses
within defense, intelligence, and homeland security applications,
mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas
exploration, infrastructure management, internet portals and
navigation technology. With our collection sources and
comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more than 1 billion square
kilometers of earth imagery and imagery products) we offer a range
of on- and off-line products and services designed to enable
customers to easily access and integrate our imagery into their
business operations and applications. For more information, please
visit www.digitalglobe.com.
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