We’ve been doing a lot of “show-and-tell” the past couple of weeks, attending the ESRI Federal User Conference in Washington, DC, and the Alaska Surveying & Mapping Conference in Anchorage, Alaska. At the ESRI Federal User Conference, Fugro EarthData’s Larry Lund gave a paper on PurVIEW, and its ability to streamline the topographic mapping process for GeoSAR data. For anyone who wasn’t at the conference, but is interested in the subject, send us an email (info@earthdata.com) and we’ll be sure to get you the information you need.
Last week, we traveled to Anchorage, Alaska, where we met up with some of our local staff and exhibited at the Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference. It’s a place we’ve been coming back to often as Stakeholders have been working long and hard over the past couple of years to address the state’s pressing needs for accurate and up-to-date topographic mapping. Given the size, geographic location, and challenging terrain, airborne IFSAR has been deemed the ideal solution for generating accurate and detailed digital elevation data.
But elevation isn’t the only application for Alaska Stakeholders. This point was illustrated in a well-received talk by Fugro EarthData’s Steven Shaffer. In his presentation, “Airborne IFSAR Mapping in Alaska: Solutions for a Statewide DEM and Beyond,” Steve explored many additional use cases for dual-band IFSAR in particular, including those related to forestry, soil studies, and snow/ice mapping. If you weren’t able to attend the conference but are interested in learning more about what we presented, let us know and we’ll make sure to answer your information needs.
This week, it’s back to Washington, DC, International Conference on Commercial Remote Sensing! We hope to see you there.