Government - State/Local
State and local government agencies rely on our satellite and aerial imagery to map projects that fulfill many essential public service projects. Towns, cities and counties rely on our imagery to understand the makeup of their areas for tax assessment, public works and public safety applications. Our imagery creates highly accurate base maps, classifies land use and easily integrates into GIS applications for streamlined operations and shared use across multiple departments.
DigitalGlobe offers civil government users an affordable beginning to end imagery solution that includes a full range of imagery products, an extensive and expanding ImageLibrary and flexible tasking and delivery options. Where you need views of changing features and infrastructure (roads, railway lines, streams, reserves, forest boundaries and plantation crops), imagery of varying dates and satellite tasking is available to you.
With our detailed images, you can detect important changes in your area of interest and create action plans for infrastructure improvements and for monitoring impact to the environment from urbanization. In addition, public safety personnel can use our imagery to establish efficient emergency routes, determine police and fire station locales and develop plans for effective responsiveness and overall community safety.
Here are some of the ways that DigitalGlobe imagery helps civil government agencies enhance their operations:
Establish a base map
Our satellite and aerial images cover significant areas of the world. With our rapid collection capabilities of QuickBird and WorldView-1 we can reach the widest geographic areas quickly and easily without the deployment of onsite surveying. Establishing an accurate base map is critical for state and local agencies worldwide. You can quickly create an accurate base map with our images and integrate them into GIS to enhance vector map layers and serve as the ground truth for other applications.
Extract features
Our multispectral band imagery easily identifies changing features of the landscape so that you can analyze impacts on water sources, vegetation growth, and environmental protected areas, as well as assess right of way issues for your community.
Classify land use
The images from our solutions allow you to classify your terrain and see where changes are occurring. You are able to track community growth and development according to demographics, identify and plan land use in agricultural, commercial, industrial and residential areas and associate land ownership with parcels to calculate tax assessment.
Offer imagery in your website for community use
Our online imagery – served through your web portal – informs citizens about planned improvements, environmental issues and local demographics of the community. Add our imagery to your web portal to educate the community and increase public participation. It is also a vital community assistance program for natural disaster planning for hurricanes, floods and wildfires.
Document regulatory compliance
Our earth imagery also offers unbiased truth about conditions required to comply with State and Federal mandates.
Plan for Emergencies
Before disasters strike, governments and first responders rely on our imagery to evaluate infrastructure and ground conditions and plan how to react to a variety of emergencies that threaten life and property. Our detailed, high-resolution imagery and powerful online and offline delivery tools accurately present developed and undeveloped landscape, which allows careful planning for emergency response activities.
Whether you are mapping a potential fire, flood, hurricane or earthquake path, you can use our imagery to prepare residents with evacuation routes and plan navigation for emergency responders. DigitalGlobe imagery is ideally suited to monitor cities, coastlines, borders, roads, utilities and the possible outcome where disaster may occur. Combined with your existing transportation networks, hospital locations and census data, our imagery reveals the detailed map needed for city managers and emergency personnel to understand the overall environment involved during a broad impact event. In addition, our archived imagery captured during or after other disasters in history help you build predictive models, establish early warning systems and assess resource needs.
Knowing the probable impact, escape routes and response needed to protect life, homes and communities during a catastrophic event aids proper planning so that governments, insurance companies, responders and rebuilders can organize and mobilize efficiently should it actually happen. DigitalGlobe products provide the accurate, high resolution and historical views needed to use and share the data and to coordinate emergency efforts.
