Available by subscription, WhiteStar Streaming Imagery enables customers to view and stream high-resolution imagery directly into their digital mapping projects.
LAKEWOOD, Colo. – WhiteStar Corp., a
supplier of cartographic data products and services to the energy industry,
today introduced the WhiteStar Streaming Imagery product. Available by
subscription, WhiteStar Streaming Imagery enables customers to view and stream
high-resolution imagery directly into their digital mapping
projects.
“WhiteStar Streaming Imagery is delivered online in the
standard web mapping service [WMS] format,” said WhiteStar President Robert
White. “This means oil & gas companies using ArcMap, PETRA or GeoGraphix for
their mapping projects can access the imagery without leaving the software
environment.”
WhiteStar introduced the Streaming Imagery product to
facilitate the use of high-resolution aerial photography and satellite imagery
in hydrocarbon exploration and production projects. The WMS-compatible streaming
format eliminates the time-consuming process of importing, balancing and
mosaicking large image files. The data can be accessed in any WMS-compatible
mapping software including ESRI ArcMap and ArcView, Halliburton GeoGraphix and
IHS PETRA,
Data included in the Streaming Imagery product is recent
aerial and satellite imagery collected since 2003. The entire online database
has been orthorectified, tonally balanced, edge matched and stitched together to
create a seamless nationwide mosaic. Spatial resolution is 0.5 meters in urban
centers and one meter in most rural areas. Customers can pan out or zoom into
any area of interest in the country to a level of 1:2000 map scale, which is
equivalent to a USGS quad map.
“Streaming Imagery data sets will be constantly updated with
new images, so the data will never be more than a few years old,” said
White.
The WhiteStar Streaming Imagery solution includes access to
nationwide road network and topographic contour datasets that overlay on the
images.
For clients with existing storehouses of raster imagery, the
WhiteStar solution provides the option of archiving their own GeoTIFF files into
the secure Streaming Imagery database for their exclusive use. This will give
them on-demand access to their digital mapping data along with the WhiteStar
imagery in the same easy-to-use WMS format.
To learn more, call WhiteStar’s Steve Pickett at
303-781-5182.
About WhiteStar Corp.
Headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, WhiteStar Corp. has
supplied digital cartographic data products, services and consulting since 1990
to the oil and gas, pipeline, natural resource, and engineering industries. As a
purveyor of geospatial data products, WhiteStar takes a customized approach to
every implementation project. The WhiteStar client base now includes more than
1600 companies ranging in size from local consulting firms to integrated
multi-national corporations. Learn more atwww.whitestar.com.
WhiteStar Introduces Streaming Imagery for Oil & Gas Exploration
January 15, 2010
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