In April, we looked at beautiful Tofo Beach in Mozambique. This month for the Pléiades 1 – Pléiades Neo Point of Interest, we check out downtown Los Angeles, which is where the Fiesta Broadway is held.
About the Point of Interest: Fiesta Broadway organizers tout their annual event as the world’s largest Cinco de Mayo. The 2025 event will take place in downtown Los Angeles on April 27 but with a new experience for guests. The street festival celebrates the city’s rich cultural diversity. Fiesta Broadway is known for its dynamic programming, featuring live music performances, dance shows, traditional folkloric displays, and a wide variety of food vendors serving up cuisine from various cultures. The event also provides a platform for local artists, artisans, and community organizations to showcase their talents and share their messages.
These two satellite images show downtown Los Angeles from above where Fiesta Broadway filled the streets for Cinco de Mayo 2025! In the Pléiades 1B 50-cm color photo taken June 30, 2023, the satellite image reveals bold buildings with colorful dots of people. The second photo captured June 21, 2023 by 30-cm Pléiades Neo, shows another aerial view of the downtown area with people as small as ants, tents set up, and colorful parked cars. These images have custom processing and color balancing applied by Apollo Mapping. PLEIADES © CNES 2025, Distribution Airbus DS. Fun Factoids: (1) In honor of Cinco de Mayo, Fiesta Broadway will offer a new attraction in 2025 called Fiesta Taco Fest, which pays homage to LA’s taco culture. (2) There also will be La Fiesta de los Moles, which celebrates the tastiness of mole from Mexico. (3) At the Pabellon de la Salud, there will be free health checkups and wellness tips offered. (4) The 2025 event also will feature fan favorites such as live performances on two stages, wrestling matches at Lucha Libre, and the popular Kids Play Zone. (5) The event draws thousands of attendees each year. (6) In 2019, Fiesta Broadway celebrated its 30th anniversary. But after COVID-19 halted the event in 2020, it returned in 2024.
The 50-cm Pléiades 1 High-Resolution Satellite Constellation
The Pléiades 1 constellation (or at least part of it!) has been in orbit since December 2011 and if you have not had a chance to check out any sample imagery, take a few moments and have a look at the gallery on our website. If you work with high-resolution imagery, you should consider Pléiades 1 and Pléiades Neo for your next geospatial projects.
A variety of Pléiades 1 products are available from both a well-established archive and as a new collection, including 50-centimeter (cm) pansharpened imagery and 50-cm panchromatic – 2-meter (m) 4-band multispectral bundles. We are happy to discuss the technical specifications, pricing and tasking options available with both of these satellite constellations.
The 30-cm Pléiades Neo High-Resolution Satellite Constellation
Pléiades Neo is our newest high-resolution satellite constellation. The first Neo satellite went up in April 2021 and the second in August of the same year. This 30-centimeter resolution constellation will add two more satellites in the next few months and upgrade from daily to intraday revisits. Pléiades Neo has six multispectral bands with 1.2-meter resolution, including a deep blue and two infrared bands, along with a 30-centimeter resolution panchromatic band.
The archive is growing every day, and the satellites are available for new collections, making Pléiades Neo the perfect solution for site monitoring. Check out our beautiful sample images in the Pléiades Neo gallery.
More sample images and technical information about Pléiades 1 can be found on our website here; while the same can be found here for the Pléiades Neo constellation.
The Apollo Mapping sales team can answer any questions you might have about Pléiades 1 and/or Pléiades Neo. We can be reached at (303) 993-3863 or sales@apollomapping.com.
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