Partners

BAE Systems

BAE Systems is a global defense and security company that delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions, and support services. BAE Systems’ SOCET GXP software is a geospatial intelligence tool that uses DigitalGlobe imagery to identify and analyze ground features. SOCET GXP users can automatically measure and store properties such as scale, elevation, latitude, and longitude in a series of images to expedite geospatial production, image analysis, and map creation. SOCET GXP enables image analysts, geospatial production technicians, and decision-makers at all levels to use a common operating framework to create, store, and share map data.

BAE SocetGXP Support

ExelisVis

Exelis Visual Information Solutions (ExelisVis) creates software products to assist in the access, analysis, and sharing of data and imagery across a variety of industries. ExelisVis’ ENVI product family provides software solutions for processing and analyzing DigitalGlobe imagery used by scientists, researchers, image analysts, and GIS professionals around the world. ENVI solutions combine the latest spectral image processing and image analysis technology with an intuitive, user-friendly interface to help users of DigitalGlobe products obtain meaningful information from their imagery investment.

• Support

• ExelisVis Support Website

• Workflows

• Change Detection using ENVI EX and DigitalGlobe Imagery
  This tutorial provides an introduction to the Image Difference Change Detection workflow in ENVI EX. This exercise compares two DigitalGlobe images of Indonesia that were impacted by the tsunami in 2004.

  Feature Extraction using ENVI EX and DigitalGlobe Imagery
  This tutorial shows how to use Feature Extraction in ENVI EX to extract impervious surfaces from DigitalGlobe multispectral imagery using supervised classification. You will learn how to smooth your vector results and save the output to a polygon shapefile.

  Multispectral Analysis in ENVI 4.8 using WorldView-2 Imagery
  This tutorial serves as an introduction to classification methods using DigitalGlobe WorldView-2 multispectral data. This exercise walks the end user through supervised classification and post-classification processing.

  RPC Orthorectification using ENVI 4.8 and DigitalGlobe's Imagery
  This tutorial demonstrates ENVI 4.8 orthorectification tools that use Rational Polynomial Coefficients (RPCs) from DigitalGlobe's Basic Imagery Products and Ortho Ready Standard Imagery Products.

  Image Difference Change Detection in ENVI 5 … using DigitalGlobe Imagery
  This tutorial provides an introduction to the Image Difference Change Detection workflow in ENVI 5. This exercise compares two DigitalGlobe images of Indonesia that were impacted by the tsunami in 2004.

  RPC Orthorectification Tutorial for ENVI 5 … using DigitalGlobe Imagery
  This tutorial demonstrates ENVI 5 orthorectification tools that use Rational Polynomial Coefficients (RPCs) from DigitalGlobe's Basic Imagery Products and Ortho Ready Standard Imagery Products.

  Supervised Classification using ENVI 5 … using DigitalGlobe Imagery
  This tutorial serves as an introduction to the Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM) supervised classification method using DigitalGlobe's QuickBird imagery.

• Archived Webinars

• Using ENVI with DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 Data (MP4)
  This recorded webinar from September 20, 2010 provides an introduction to applications in ENVI utilizing the 8 spectral bands of DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 satellite. Highlights from this webinar include water depth estimation from WorldView-2 imagery as well as extracting burn perimeters from a wildfire region.

Intergraph/ERDAS

In 2011 Intergraph and ERDAS merged combing the two companies rich histories as pioneers in the geospatial software industry. Intergraph’s ERDAS IMAGINE, is an easy-to-use, raster-based software designed specifically to extract information from DigitalGlobe imagery products. The product provides true value and incorporates remote sensing and photogrammetry into a single product, maximizing the value of the DigitalGlobe Base Product Series. Furthermore, ERDAS IMAGINE simplifies image processing functions while maintaining the integrity of DigitalGlobe imagery products users need for updating GIS in multiple formats.

• Support

• Intergraph Support Webite

• Workflows

• DEM Extraction from OR2A Stereo and ERDAS LPS
  This tutorial outlines the basic steps in deriving a Digital Elevation Model from DigitalGlobe's Ortho Ready Stereo product using ERDAS LPS.

  DigitalGlobe RPC in ERDAS IMAGINE
  This tutorial provides the IMAGINE user the basics for Orthorectifying DigitalGlobe's Ortho Ready Standard using the Rational Polynomial Coefficients (RPC's).

  Multispectral Analysis and ERDAS IMAGINE
  This tutorial will teach the ERDAS IMAGINE user the basics on classification using WorldView-2 eight (8) band data, in particular, utilizing the supervised classification method.

  WorldView-2 Basics and ERDAS IMAGINE
  This tutorial introduces some basic applications in ERDAS IMAGINE regarding the use of WorldView-2 Satellite Imagery. Included are steps for reassembling DigitalGlobe tiled imagery, orthorectification using the RPC model, switching WorldView-2 band combinations, Pan Sharpening WorldView-2 data and simple Change Detection.

• Archived Webinars

• Automated Feature Extraction with DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 Data (WMV)
  This recorded webinar from December 8, 2011 showcases workflows that highlight how IMAGINE Objective's automated approach to feature extraction increases the value of your WorldView-2 imagery.

  DigitalGlobe Imagery and ERDAS IMAGINE Maximizing Your Geospatial Investment (WMV)
  This recorded webinar from September 15, 2010 highlights different applications in ERDAS IMAGINE that showcase the power of DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 satellite imagery.

PCI Geomatics

As an industry leader in geo-imaging products and solutions, PCI Geomatics has set the standard in remote sensing and image processing tools. The company offers customized solutions to the geomatics community in over 135 countries. PCI Geomatics is the developer of Geomatica, a complete and integrated desktop software that features tools for remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, geospatial analysis, map production, and mosaicking (to name a few). Additionally, Geomatica enables users to apply DigitalGlobe imagery products in support of a wide range of applications, including environment, agriculture, security and intelligence, oil and gas, and defense industries.

• Support

• PCI Geomatics Support Website

• Workflows

• Orthorectifying DigitalGlobe Imagery in OrthoEngine Using the Rigorous and RPC Models
  This tutorial provides a brief description on how to Orthorectify DigitalGlobe imagery in PCI Geomatics OrthoEngine using the Rigorous Sensor Model and Rational Polynomial Coefficients.

  DEM Extraction from WorldView Imagery in PCI Geomatics
  This tutorial demonstrates the workflow in PCI Geomatica for extracting Digital Elevation Models from WorldView Stereo Imagery.

• Archived Webinars

• Using Stereo Imagery for Mining Applications (WMV)
  This webinar recorded on June 23rd, 2011 describes the advantage of using WorldView-2 stereo imagery for Mining Applications. In addition, it looks at the DEM extraction workflow using WorldView-2 stereo imagery in PCI Geomatica and DAT/EM's Summit Evolution software.