Hexagon’s Geosystems division introduced as we speak that the HxGN Content material Program will refresh information for eight U.S. states throughout this 12 months’s assortment season. All states — California, New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, and West Virginia — might be up to date at a 6-inch (15-centimeter) decision statewide, marking this system’s shift from a 12-inch to 6-inch wide-area acquisition for the contiguous United States.
The 2022 assortment will add 558,349 sq. miles (1,446,116 sq. kilometers) of 4-band orthoimagery, stereo imagery, and imagery-derived digital floor fashions to the Content material Program’s present assortment of over 10.5 million sq. miles throughout North America and Europe.
The refreshed aerial information might be obtainable beginning in This fall of 2022 as climate circumstances permit. The aerial imagery may be streamed utilizing customary mapping APIs or downloaded via the HxGN Content material Program’s Information Retailer. Information availability may be tracked via the HxGN Content material Program’s protection map.
Beginning this 12 months, information might be collected utilizing the Leica ContentMapper, a high-performance imaging sensor with twice the effectivity of earlier sensor generations on the similar acquisition parameters.
The sensor is optimized for large-area mapping and outfitted with Hexagon’s distinctive mechanical forward-motion-compensation (FMC) expertise to offer the best picture high quality and constancy. The ContentMapper permits the HxGN Content material Program to supply extra flexibility to state governments in fine-tuning their statewide aerial imagery wants.
“We allow state governments to make better-informed, strategic selections by providing the best high quality and constant aerial information,” says John Welter, President Geospatial Content material Options at Hexagon. “From leaf-on or leaf-off imagery to a number of acquisitions inside one flying season, the investments we’re making in superior expertise such because the Leica ContentMapper allows states’ to construct a dependable imagery program that promotes sustainable, thriving communities.”