If you are searching for medium and high-resolution satellite imagery, the search is over as Image Hunter is the solution you’ve been looking for! Featuring satellite and aerial imagery as well as digital elevation models (DEMs) from a constantly expanding list of 70+ constellations/datasets and 19 vendors, our database contains more than 500-million images/records meaning there is just no other website out there with this breadth of commercial data products. Our interface is slim-lined and modern, loading quickly on all platforms, browsers and operating systems. Further, our database is updated multiple times an hour with the most recent images collected by WorldView-3, Pléiades 1, PlanetScope, SuperView Neo and many more so you are sure to get the most current view of all the imagery and DEM databases we work with. Once you submit your request, an Apollo Mapping representative will be in touch within 4 Illinois business hours to get you the pricing information you need for your project.

So why wait? Give Image Hunter a try now to find the imagery and/or DEM data you need for your next mapping project!

Key Improvement(s) From The Past Month

Our new Clip Polygon To Image tool is live! Give it a try to automatically calculate the coverage areas of a complex set of imagery from various data vendors and satellite constellations.

After a few hints at a new and improved Clip Polygon To Image tool, we dropped a huge new update to the clipping tool and it is pretty amazing if we do say so! We have added in two ways to reduce overlap between various vendor’s datasets which means we have added two ways to save you money when ordering overlapping satellite imagery from multiple vendors. For most folks, the automated overlap reduction tool will be there go-to as you can rank your selected images by importance whereby we maximize the coverage of the most important scenes to your project while minimizing the coverage (down to 500-meters for the overlap area) for the less important scenes. There is also a highly interactive mode where you can go scene by scene and adjust the overlap accordingly. We would be happy to hear any feedback our users might have about this exciting new update!

Here is a summary of the changes/improvements we made to Image Hunter during the past month:

• Sometimes an update is big enough that it takes up all of our time, and well that is what happened this month as our ‘only’ update this month was the overlap tool in our Clip Polygon to Image function – we hope you enjoy it!

Data Alert – An Automated Daily Imagery Search

Have you checked out Data Alert which lets you define an area of interest anywhere around the globe, the resolution your project requires and the number of months we should keep the alert active? Once an alert is set up, we check for new data over your area of interest every single day, and send you an email when we find coverage that meets your specifications. We have a short YouTube video with directions to set up a Data Alert, check out the last video; and we have written directions for Data Alert here. 

The Sensors Available in Image Hunter

As you might have seen in past articles, we now feature hourly updates (seriously!) of GeoEye-1, KOMPSAT 3/3A, Pléiades 1 and Neo, SPOT 6/7, SuperView-1/2/Neo, WorldView-1/2/3/Legion!

Image Hunter can be accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is a one-stop shop for every major source of medium and high-resolution satellite (and aerial!) imagery on the market today, including:

• WorldView Legion
• WorldView-4
• WorldView-3
• WorldView-2
• WorldView-1
• QuickBird
• GeoEye-1
• IKONOS
• EROS B
• KOMPSAT-3A
• KOMPSAT-3
• KOMPSAT-2
• Pléiades 1 constellation
• Pléiades Neo constellation
• TerraSAR-X (TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X and PAZ)
• GEOSAT-1
• GEOSAT-2
• TripleSat
• BJ3A
• BJ3N
• SPOT 1 to 7 constellation
• RapidEye
• GaoFen-2
• GaoFen-1
• ZiYuan-3 01/02 (mono and stereo!)
• FORMOSAT-5
• FORMOSAT-2
• ALOS PRISM (stereo)
• AW3D Standard (DEM)
• SkySat constellation
• PlanetScope constellation (including 5-band SuperDove data)
• SuperView-1 constellation
• SuperView-2
• SuperView Neo-1 01/02/03/04
• SuperView Neo-3 01/02
• Landsat 1-8
• TeLEOS-1
• DS-EO
• Hexagon (HxGN Content Program aerial imagery) imagery + DEM
• WorldDEM
• WorldDEM Neo
• Vricon DEMs
• Orbita Hyperspectral Satellite (OHS)
• KazEOSat-1
• KazEOSat-2
• Jilin-1 Optical
• Jilin-1 Video (including nighttime imagery)
• Jilin-1 GF/DP
• Jillin-1 KF
• Orbita Video Satellites-1/2/3 (OVS-1/2/3)
• BlackSky Global series

Key Features of Image Hunter

If any of our readers have struggled with other geospatial search engines that are clunky, only query one data source and/or do not provide image previews, then Image Hunter is the solution to your woes as it features:

• Online browsing of satellite and aerial imagery from 19 data providers and 56 satellite and aerial imagery derived datasets.
• Near-instantaneous loading of low-resolution preview imagery with collection date, cloud cover and other key metadata.
• The ability to define your area of interest by address, coordinates, geometric shape or shapefile/KMZ.
• A responsive basemap with street names to provide spatial context when discovering data as well as crowd-sourced updates for the most accurate map possible.
• Exports of the area of interest you create as well as the scenes you select in shapefile or KMZ format.
• Support for all operating systems, and not just our friends with Windows machines!

Image Hunter can be accessed here all day and night, we are excited to find out what you think about our imagery search engine! So if you have any ideas and/or feedback to improve Image Hunter, please let us know at sales@apollomapping.com or (303) 993-3863.