The constellations have aligned. DigitalGlobe and GeoEye have combined. We are now one DigitalGlobe.
As you have heard, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye formally announced their combination today. To learn more about the combination, please read the press release and visit www.digitalglobe.com/combination
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Burning Man!
This was DigitalGlobe’s second annual Top Image of the Year contest. Voting opened on December 10, and we received over 2,900 votes from our followers via Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, and Twitter. We also kept things exciting this year by offering participants extra votes during the second round if they repinned, retweeted, and/or +1ed their favorite image.
For most of December the image of Mt. Fuji, Japan, led the polls and looked to be the clear favorite to win. The image had the most votes during the first round and was the featured image in many online news articles. However, in the last week of voting, devoted fans of our Burning Man image managed a late surge in votes and ended up passing the Mt. Fuji image by about 45 votes in our poll!
So there you have it, Burning Man Festival is this year’s winner of our Top Satellite Image contest!
What is Burning Man?
The Burning Man festival (or project) has grown from a small group of people gathering spontaneously to a community of over 48,000 people. Held in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, Burning Man is an annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance. The towns of Empire and Gerlach serve as guardians of the desert region. The event is always held the week prior to and including Labor Day weekend. In 2012 the dates were Monday, August 27 to Monday, September 3. Each year has a different theme, with past themes including – Fertility, Time, Hell, Outer Space, The Body, and The Floating World. Innovative sculptures, installations, performances, theme camps, art cars and costumes are encouraged. Source: http://www.burningman.com
Our WorldView-2 satellite captured this image on August 28, 2012. The off-nadir angle was 38.96 degrees. The sun elevation was 56.91 degrees and we were fortunate to get 0 percent cloud cover.
If you’d like a poster size download of either Burning Man or Mt. Fuji simply visit our store. Both images are available for purchase. Thanks for voting and we look forward to doing this all over again at the end of 2013!
As 2012 comes to a close, we’re pleased to announce our end-of-the-year top satellite image contest.
This year our constellation (Quickbird, WorldView-1, and WorldView-2) once again captured millions of square kilometers of imagery.
Our experts have combed through the trillions of pixels and found 20 images that we think are especially amazing, and now it’s your turn to tell us what you think. Which ones do you think are the most interesting, aesthetically pleasing and/or astounding?
To vote, simply go to DigitalGlobe’s Facebook page to see the Top Image Contest – 2012 album. You can “like” as many images as you want, but only the five images with the most likes will make it to the final round. You have a week and a half to vote, campaign for, and promote the images you want to see in the top five.
On December 19, we will announce the five images with the overall most “likes” and you will be able to vote on your favorite image via a Facebook poll. Want additional votes in this final round? Follow DigitalGlobe on Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest to retweet, repin and +1 your favorite images.
We will announce the winning image of 2012 in early January 2013. Which one do you think deserves the Top Image of the Year title? We want you to be the judge!
