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September 30, 2016

DG's Basemap expanded to include 250M square kilometers at 30cm
Westminster CO (SPX) Sep 30, 2016
DigitalGlobe reports that its online Basemap Suite has reached a significant milestone, with the availability of more than 250 million square kilometers of the world's highest-resolution 30 cm commercial satellite imagery. This includes over 500 population centers in the Basemap +Metro product now available at 30 cm resolution and 1,700 cities available at 50 cm or better resolution, a level of detail that is unrivaled in the industry. In total, the Basemap Suite now features 1.5 billion square ki ... read more

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