Technical Advances in Satellite Imagery: Keeping Up-To-Date in an Increasingly Complex Landscape
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Technical advances in satellite imagery: Keeping up- to-date in an increasingly complex landscape Richard Burren, Director of NPA Satellite Mapping ESRI European Petroleum GIS Conference – 1st November 2017 Imaging from space today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvJYSmplzXc&list=LLYChevwGmPl8AJhYSljR3fw&index=114 2 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping A lot has changed over the past 45 years…. 3 Lift off .1972 – An optical insight of the Earth . NASA launches the ERTS-1 satellite, later renamed Landsat-1 4 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping INTEGRATE LANDSAT image 5 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping User Seminar – Houston 2017 Lift off .1991 – All weather imaging . ESA launches the ERS-1 synthetic aperture radar satellite 6 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping INTEGRATE ERS image © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping User Seminar – Houston 2017 © ESA7 1993 Aiming higher .1999 – A more detailed optical view… . Spacing Imaging launches the first commercial high spatial resolution satellite, IKONOS 8 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping INTEGRATE IKONOS image © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping User Seminar – Houston 2017 © 20089 DigitalGlobe, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Aiming higher .1999 – …and an increased spectral view! . NASA launch the Terra satellite, which hosts the Japanese multi-spectral ASTER instrument 10 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping INTEGRATE ASTER image 11 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping User Seminar – Houston 2017 Aiming higher .2007 – A more detailed, and frequent, radar view . DLR and EADS Astrium launch TerraSAR-X and the Italian Space Agency/Italian MoD launch the first of four COSMO-SkyMed satellites 12 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping INTEGRATE TSX image stack & WorldDEM example © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping User Seminar – Houston 2017 © 201613 Airbus Defence and Space / Infoterra GmbH Relax the rules – Increase the detail .2015 – US government restrictions eased . Digital Globe’s WorldView-3 satellite delivers 31cm spatial resolution imagery 14 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping Seminar INTEGRATE WorldView-3 image (before and after) © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping User Seminar – Houston 2017 © 201515 DigitalGlobe, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Space boom! .Today – Smallsat revolution… . Planet launch 88 more Dove satellites 16 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping Seminar March 9, 2016 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping User Seminar – Houston 2017 Image17 © 2016 Planet Lab Inc. All Rights Reserved March 14, 2016 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping User Seminar – Houston 2017 Image18 © 2016 Planet Lab Inc. All Rights Reserved March 15, 2016 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping User Seminar – Houston 2017 Image19 © 2016 Planet Lab Inc. All Rights Reserved Space boom! .Today – …and open-access revolution . EC and ESA continue to roll out the Sentinel family of satellites 20 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping Seminar Many more on the horizon! .Tomorrow – An increasingly complex landscape… . WorldView Scout & Legion, Urthedaily, EiX2, BlackSky, Landmapper… . PAZ, SAOCOM, RADARSAT Constellation Mission, OptiSAR, MicroSAR, ASNARO-2, ICEYE, Copella… 22 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping Seminar More is good, yeah? 23 Unequivocally, yes More choice More competitive Long-term pricing?? continuity More flexible Persistent tasking collection Bigger, better Increased global archives agility High-frequency collection 24 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping Strengthens our ability to address existing challenges and enables us to address new ones 25 Challenges remain… Usage terms Data quality You only know what you know Data size Deciphering the marketing Data access Rules of physics Cost Viewing Processing Weather geometry power 26 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping So, where to start? 27 Start at the end What is the challenge? What do you need to measure? Can satellites do this directly? Can satellites do this indirectly? 28 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping Seminar Start at the end Appropriate scale Frequency of SS:MM:HH:DD:MM:YY change Budget 29 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping Seminar – Houston 2017 The art of the science is matching these to available options 30 Conclusion . Dramatic changes in satellite imaging capabilities and options . Do better . Do more . Comprehensive (impartial) knowledge to connect an application to the right imagery 31 © CGG | NPA Satellite Mapping Thank you Website: www.cgg.com/npa LinkedIn: ‘NPA Satellite Mapping’ Follow us on Twitter: @CGGNPA .