The specialists of ScanEx Research & Development Center conducted a pilot imagery of Moscow city on the night pass of the EROS B satellite, flying over the city at 2:30 am local time.
A new product that combines day and night images was synthesized as a result of processing of the received images. According to a leading specialist of the Research Projects & Information Department of ScanEx RDC Maria Dorofeeva, the product can be used to analyze the cities illumination, to detect illegal economic activities of the enterprises, to analyze the building-up dynamics, as well as in assessing the consequences of the natural disasters impact on the work of urban power grids.
To date, EROS B ( operator – ImageSat Int.) is the only very-high resolution mission (0.7 m) , which provides commercial services for satellite imagery tasking of the specified objects in the night time.
More information about the possibilities of night images application will be presented at the 6th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions” to be held on October 1-3, 2013 in the Moscow Region “Vatutinki” resort hotel.
