In May, we looked at bustling downtown Los Angeles where the Fiesta Broadway is held. This month for the Pléiades 1 – Pléiades Neo Point of Interest, we take a glimpse at the Telluride Blue Grass Festival, which will be held June 19-22, 2025, in Telluride, Colorado. Nestled in the rugged San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival offers a music festival set in a beautiful mountain backdrop.
These two satellite images featured here show the festival grounds from above. The Pléiades Neo 4 30-cm color image from July 15, 2023 shows rows of houses and the large stage, still in its original place from when the festival was first established. But in the second photo, captured September 12, 2024 by Pléiades 1A, you can see tents for vendors and more scattered all around the property, where folks on the ground are setting up for the upcoming 2024 Telluride Blues and Brews Festival which started the next day. These images have custom processing and color balancing applied by Apollo Mapping. PLEIADES © CNES 2025, Distribution Airbus DS.About the Point of Interest: Although the Telluride Bluegrass Festival focuses on bluegrass music, it typically features music from a variety of related genres. The first Telluride Bluegrass Festival was organized in 1974 by John Herndon, J.B. & Helen Matiotti, Kooster McAllister, and Fred Shellman, who played in the Fall Creek Boys. That year, the festival attracted approximately 1,000 music-lovers. The festival became an annual event with attendance once capped at 10,000. Since at least 2013, capacity has been set at 12,000 per day (48,000 total over the four days of the festival).
Fun Factoids: (1) One of the fun events at the festival is a band contest. Twelve bands are given slots in the competition. Judges rate the bands and the top four go to the main stage to compete before the crowd. (2) In 1990, the Dixie Chicks won the band contest. (3) NightGrass is the late-night magic of the festival. NightGrass concerts are held in venues around the town of Telluride, including the iconic Sheridan Opera House and Palm Theatre. (4) A cherished Festivarian tradition, FirstGrass is a free outdoor show in the Sunset Plaza in Mountain Village. Board the free gondola from Telluride up to Mountain Village, and plan to spend the evening dining at one of the numerous restaurants, wandering the shops, taking in the spectacular views, and enjoying the first official sounds of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. (5) The 2025 lineup on the festival’s main stage includes Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Jerry Douglas, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Sam Bush Band, Lake Street Dive, Zach Top, Greensky Bluegrass, Kasey Chambers and many more.
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.
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