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First 50cm Image Collected by GeoEye-1

First image collected from the GeoEye-1 Satellite over Kutztown University in Pennsylvania

AAMHatch is pleased to announce the release of the very first, 50cm resolution, colour image taken from the GeoEye-1 satellite.

This image of an American University campus clearly portrays the academic buildings, parking lots, and athletic fields. The image was collected at midday this week (7 October, 2008) while GeoEye-1 was moving north to south in a 681km orbit over the eastern seaboard of the U.S.A.

Dr Gail Kelly, Business Development Manager, said, “The 50cm GeoEye-1 imagery is a landmark achievement by GeoEye. We are very excited to be the provider of this imagery to the clients throughout Oceania.”

The satellite has been undergoing calibration and testing since it was launched last month. More information on products and pricing will be available at our Australian GeoEye-1 roadshow next month.

GeoEye-1 simultaneously collects 41cm ground resolution black-and-white imagery in the panchromatic mode and 165cm colour (multispectral mode). This first image showing Kutztown University located in Pennsylvania was produced by fusing the satellite’s panchromatic and multispectral data to produce a high-quality, true-colour half-metre resolution image. Due to U.S. licensing restrictions, commercial customers will only access this imagery at a 50cm ground resolution.

Brian Nicholls, General Manager, said, “AAMHatch is proud to partner with GeoEye. We believe that this new satellite imagery will be of great interest and benefit to our customers in the mining, engineering, government, environment and utilities industries. We are looking forward to accessing this imagery for commercial applications very soon.”

For more information on the GeoEye-1 roadshows, visit our satellite page here.

For more information about the September launch and technical specifications of the GeoEye-1 satellite, please visit: http://launch.geoeye.com

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AAMHatch wins Top Spatial Excellence Award

Rohan Potter (AAMHatch), Phil Collier (Melbourne University)
and Tony Lupton (Victorian Parliamentary Cabinet Secretary) at the Award Ceremony.

At the recent 4th Annual Victorian Spatial Excellence Awards in Australia, AAMHatch stole the show winning two awards: “Victorian Government Award for Spatial Excellence” and best project for “Land Titling and Development”. Rohan Potter, Senior Spatial Solutions Consultant in Victoria, was pleased the company had attained the highly regarded Award for Spatial Excellence as this was the highest award the Judging Panel could confer.

The prize winning project, “Gippsland Precision Subsidence Monitoring (2004-2007)”, was commissioned by the Victorian Department of Primary Industries to establish the presence or absence of subsidence along the ecologically fragile Gippsland coastline from a range of land use activities.

The unprecedented requirement for high precision measurement over such a large area of interest required:
• Innovative design and use of specialised equipment
• Rigorous error mitigation in data capture
• Sophisticated data processing methods in order to meet the project specifications.

The accuracy of surveys performed exceeded the specification standard (6mm accuracy was achieved). No significant subsidence was detected between 2003 and 2007.

This project, undertaken for the Victorian Department of Primary Industries, was managed by Chris Earls, with project design and computations completed by Chris Earls and Don Abbey in consultation with Phil Collier of Melbourne University. The fieldwork, spread over four years, was undertaken by some of our talented staff: Don Abbey, Ricky Thomson and Simon Treasure.

The technologies and techniques used on this project have the potential to be applied to many other land and structure monitoring and measurement tasks, including measurement of ground movement due to Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS).