And the winner is…The Rakaia River in New Zealand! The Rakaia River is in the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand’s South Island. It is one of the largest braided rivers in New Zealand. The river has a mean flow of 203 cubic meters per second and a mean annual seven-day low flow of 87 cubic [...]
As an industry leader in commercial satellite imagery, DigitalGlobe is pleased to announce our end-of-the-year top satellite image contest. Our satellite constellation has been busy traveling the globe and capturing incredible imagery, from natural disasters to natural wonders. We’ve selected our favorite 20 images from 2011 and need your help voting on the image you [...]
Last Tuesday, one of our analysts in the DigitalGlobe Analysis Center made an impressive discovery –finding the first Chinese aircraft carrier (known as the Varyag or the Shi Lang) underway in the middle of the Yellow Sea during its second sea trial , in the midst of fairly heavy cloud cover of one of our [...]