Esri and DigitalGlobe Sign Multi-Year Agreement
July 25 2012 - 8:30AM
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DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of earth
imagery and geospatial analysis, today announced that Esri has
licensed the rights for DigitalGlobe's Global Basemap imagery
layer. The announcement was made at the Esri International User
Conference, occurring this week in San Diego, California.
The imagery layer will be integrated into Esri's existing
imagery basemap in ArcGIS Online, Esri's cloud-based mapping and
collaborative content management system. Later this year, ArcGIS
users will be able to use the imagery in their web maps and easily
share the results with other users online. In addition ArcGIS for
Desktop users can leverage the same ArcGIS Online service to use
the high quality data in their desktop applications.
"This agreement with DigitalGlobe will help us provide our users
with significantly better imagery coverage globally," said Jack
Dangermond, Esri president. "We are excited because DigitalGlobe
will provide every user with access to an additional 100 million
square kilometers (km2) of very high quality imagery, spanning
multiple resolutions."
"We're excited to establish this new, expanded relationship with
Esri," stated Jeffrey R. Tarr, president and chief executive
officer at DigitalGlobe. "Combining our unrivaled imagery with the
leading performance of ArcGIS Online will enable end-users to
significantly improve workflow efficiency and effectiveness. We
look forward to helping Esri continue delivering a world-class
experience to their customers now and for many years to come."
Integration of the Global Basemap imagery layer into ArcGIS
Online's imagery basemap is on-going and will be released in late
2012.
About DigitalGlobe and Global Basemap
DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial
high-resolution earth imagery products and services. Sourced from
our own advanced satellite constellation, our imagery solutions
support a wide variety of uses within defense and intelligence,
civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil
and gas exploration, infrastructure management, Internet portals
and navigation technology. With our collection sources and
comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more than 2.5 billion km2 of
earth imagery and imagery products) we offer a range of on- and
off-line products and services designed to enable customers to
easily access and integrate our imagery into their business
operations and applications. For more information, visit
www.digitalglobe.com.
Global Basemap is an off-the-shelf product that delivers a
baseline geospatial context of a user's specific area of interest.
Global Basemap provides global coverage of all 510 million km² of
the planet, including oceans and the polar regions. The imagery
delivered is an aggregation of high-resolution and mid-resolution
imagery from DigitalGlobe's industry-leading satellite
constellation, aerial content, and third-party lower-resolution
Landsat imagery. By leveraging multiple data sources, Global
Basemap provides users with seamless coverage of the planet, at
multiple zoom levels. Global Basemap imagery meets the strict
specification standards built into the Advanced Ortho Series line
of products. Global Basemap requires no tasking or traditional
order processing; it is available off-the-shelf with imagery that
has been collected under the content program and other initiatives.
Global Basemap can be delivered on-line via DigitalGlobe Cloud
Services and as offline JPEG tiles.
About Esri and ArcGIS Online Since 1969,
Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think
and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, Esri software is
used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of
the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national
governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and
more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications,
running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and
enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping
and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides
complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and
Internet platforms. Visit us at www.esri.com.
ArcGIS Online is Esri's open cloud platform for GIS
organizations to web-enable their maps and related geographic
information for sharing with their users. ArcGIS Online includes
tools for geospatial content management, simple web mapping, and
ultimately a full GIS running in a hosted cloud platform provided
by ArcGIS. This technology includes online content such as hosted
basemaps for web, mobile, desktop, and server deployment. It
enables users to upload and share their datasets (shapefiles,
spreadsheets, map packages, web maps); provides a common catalog
for referencing online maps and geoservices; and has tools for
organizing shared content into groups for both secure management
and organizational purposes.
DigitalGlobe is a registered trademark of DigitalGlobe.
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