Remote sensing, whether it’s airborne or in space, has change completely and is continuous changing the way we see the EARTH. Nowadays , with a space industry that’s reaching new heights (with an increasing and performant satellites constellation), EARTH observation from space has become a rapid, precise and accessible way of providing viable solutions in many fields (like natural resource management, hazard assessment, ocean and coastal applications, urban management, agriculture and so on), with a wide rage of applicability.
Satellites like GeoEye, WorldView, Pleiades, Spot etc., are an important source of providing very high resolution imagery that can be used for photogrammetric purposes and further provide products for GIS analyses.
Satellite remote sensing fields and applications