ImageScape has the power to generate 3D virtual terrain models of the world’s land mass by integrating high-precision, accurate satellite and aerial imagery and Digital Elevation Models (DEM) with a flexible, lightweight viewer which creates media-broadcast quality terrain models. Using 3D wireframe terrain topologies and high-resolution commercial imagery from DigitalGlobe’s ImageLibrary and satellite constellation, ImageScape users will be able to fly through virtual representations of desired locations at a full 1:1 resolution. ImageScape provides a highly interactive and easy-to-use environment for all levels of users, including robust mapping and measurements tools to enhance the 3D experience, celestial models for day/night effects, environment options for snow, smog and rain, together with simple integration and output to broadcast media video and geospatial products.
ImageScape models are available within days and offers extremely fast output rendering using the free lightweight viewer. The final file size is up to 1/10 of the normal size of geo-tiff delivered imagery and frame outputs at 60 frames per second instead of the normal 20-24 per second. Its lightweight feature enables the application's use on personal navigation and mobile devices for more realistic depictions of major cities and remote rural areas. DigitalGlobe’s ImageLibrary is the most comprehensive source of high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery and contains more than half a billion square kilometers of highly accurate world imagery updated from DigitalGlobe’s high-resolution satellite constellation at a rate of nearly 1 million square kilometers each day, and its continuous aerial collection program. DigitalGlobe’s ImageLibrary will further increase to a rate of approximately 2 million square kilometers per day once WorldView-2 (scheduled for launch in Q3 2009) is fully operational.
NBC and The Today Show are among the first customers to have already used ImageScape and the partnership between AEgis and DigitalGlobe for television coverage of the Beijing Olympics and a recent “Ends of the Earth” segment. 3D models of world terrain face increased demand across many industries including defense, aerospace, architecture and engineering, natural resources, consumer navigation, homeland and major event security as well as municipal planning.