Mr. Scott Larson reports
URTHECAST'S FIRST RELEASE OF EARTH IMAGERY FROM SPACE
UrtheCast Corp. has released its first
Earth imagery, captured by UrtheCast's medium-resolution camera on board the International Space Station.
"This is a pivotal moment for the company and for everyone who's been a
part of the vision that we set in motion in 2010," stated UrtheCast co-founder and chief executive officer, Scott Larson. "Our team has
been working extremely hard to make certain that we reach this goal of
democratizing a very powerful perspective on the world. We couldn't be
more grateful to the incredibly determined engineering teams at
UrtheCast, RSC Energia and Rutherford Appleton Laboratories."
Captured on March 28, 2014, at 1 p.m. GMT, this image is centred around
the city of Moneague, Jamaica, and has a six-metre GSD (ground sampling
distance). The photo is approximately 3,200 pixels by 8,000 pixels and covers
approximately 300 square kilometres. The MRC is a multispectral,
nadir-pointing imager that captures six-metre-class, 50-kilometre-wide swaths of
still imagery, which will be made commercially available on the
UrtheCast platform. While the images will be made available on an
individual basis, they will also be processed and constantly streamed
to the UrtheCast platform. This will be realized on the interactive
platform as a near-real-time flyover view of the planet directly below
the ISS as it orbits the globe 16 times every day.
In preparation for the unveiling of its full-colour, ultrahigh-definition Earth video
from space, UrtheCast remains focused on the commissioning and
calibration of its cameras, in addition to ground system testing and
the continuation of its business plan.
To view additional UrtheCast images as they are released, visit the company's website.
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