Tech Talk ARTICLE

March 2005

QuickBird Mapping the Ecosystem

edited by Robert H. Williams

The Nature Conservancy has turned to spacecraft to assess biological diversity and the environmental conservation around the world. The organization will rely on images provided by the QuickBird satellite, made by DigitalGlobe Inc. of Longmont, Colo.

QuickBird maps guarantee “consistent imagery over large areas, and we don’t have to mosaic the pieces together as we would with aerial imagery,” said Frank Biasi, of the Nature Conservancy. “This allows us to efficiently map large landscapes and ecosystems at a level of detail that is meaningful to local communities and conservation managers.”

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