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Satellite imagery has made timely visual data readily available. With daily satellite orbits above the globe, satellite imagery can be tasked, collected, and disseminated while still retaining its relevance to clients and users. The visual data provided by satellite imagery is processed into valuable information needed for decision support systems of clients. Satellite imagery is digital, and therefore can be easily loaded into GIS, image processing, or mapping systems. Satellite sensors can detect an object as small as 82 cm, achieving a mapping accuracy of 2 meters. Satellite imagery is not limited by political or regional constraints as the Helsinki Open Skies Treaty of 1992 eliminates space borders. Therefore, satellites can spot any region on the surface of the earth without any requisite prior approval.
SIME is the first commercial satellite imagery company in the region with access to multi-sensor technology. SIME’s has access to IRS and IKONOS satellites and will soon have access to aerial imagery. IKONOS, the Company’s flagship satellite, is the world’s first high-resolution, commercial, and remote-sensing satellite. Moving above the ground at approximately seven kilometers per second, IKONOS collects data at a rate of over 2,000 square kilometers per minute. To download the imagery, SIME uses a U.A.E based station.
Follow the links below to read more about the individual satellite platforms and sensors.
Launched in September 1999, IKONOS is owned and operated by Space Imaging. While having the ability to capture multispectral images at four-meter resolution, IKONOS can also record objects as small as one-meter in black and white. By combining the multispectral properties of the four-meter imagery with the details of the one-meter data, IKONOS imagery is processed to produce one-meter color products.
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The Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite system was developed in the 1980's to provide valuable resource management information. Following the successful launches of IRS 1A and 1B satellites, IRS 1C was launched in 1995 and IRS 1D in 1997 by the Government of India. 5-meter resolution Panchromatic imagery collected by IRS-1C and 1D is ideal for urban planning, disaster management, mapping and other applications requiring the unique combination of high-resolution imagery, high revisit frequency, and broad area coverage. These satellites have stereo imaging capability, adjustable gain and cross-track imaging capability.
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As a continuation to IRS-1C/1D imagery, RESOURCESAT-1 imagery has an improved spatial resolution and is ideal for applications requiring high resolution, broad area coverage, and high revisit frequency. With the ability to collect the same data every 5 days, the satellite is perfectly suitable for monitoring applications. RESOURCESAT-1 imagery is suitable for integrated land and water management and agricultural applications. RESOURCESAT-1 is designed to support applications such as urban planning, national security, mapping, forestry, and disaster management. Using a ground control point, the positional accuracy of the imagery is+-50 meter, without ground control, the positional accuracy is better than 500 meter.
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Space Imaging middle east uses UAE Airforce Space reconnaissance center” Universal Ground station” to task and download imagery. Based in Al Dhafra Airbase Abu Dhabi, the Universal Ground Station utilizes the most advanced commercial satellite reconnaissance technology in the world. The Universal Ground Station is an end-to-end, turnkey remote sensing system capable of tasking, receiving, processing, analyzing and disseminating satellite and aerial imagery data. Access the “The Universal Station” gives SIME the ability to have a timely and accurate response to meet clients’ urgent needs. TO TOP
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