Satellite Data Analysis and Mapping with GIS

GIS (geographic information systems), GPS (global positioning system), and satellite remote sensing technology support environmental management for natural hazards and disasters, global climate change, natural resources, wildlife conservation, land cover, and many other applications. Satellite imagery greatly enhances a GIS mapping project and serves as a source of information and data to support analysis and classification for geospatial assessment and modeling.

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How GIS is used in Satellite Data Analysis and Mapping

GIS allows for the integration and collective analysis of geospatial data from multiple sources, including satellite imagery, GPS recordings, and textual attributes associated with a particular space.

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Pan-Sharpening

Process of fusing the spatial detail of a high-resolution panchromatic (Pan) image and the spectral information of a low-resolution multispectral

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Geo-referencing and orthorectification

This involves geometrically correcting satellite imageries by projecting and assigning coordinates (e.g. latitude and longitude) to an image (Georeferencing)

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Facilities Management

GIS has been used extensively for facilities management in the public sector and private sector providing managers with a powerful tool for supporting real-time monitoring of facilities and is routinely used for emergency management, security, and other applications.

Optimizing solar panel energy output with irradiance values

Sustainable living has a lot of interest in solar energy and its appeal is proliferating across the world. Find out the location for the placement of solar panels. If you choose a single position anywhere on Earth to install a solar panel, then we have to use Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI) map implementing GIS to analyze the map.

Generating Earth’s surface elevation

Using GIS and satellite imagery we are able to generate earth’s surface elevation with the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, is a significant breakthrough in digital mapping of the world, and provides a significant advance in the accessibility of high-quality elevation data for large portions of the tropics and other areas of the developing world

Extracting mineral deposits with remote sensing based spectral analysis

During the pre-feasibility and feasibility stages of the mineral exploration, it is very essential to know the mineral potentiality of the area under consideration. In such scenarios satellite remote sensing-based lithological mapping, geological structural mapping, geomorphological mapping, etc, and its integration into a GIS platform will enable geoscientists to map the potential mineral zones.

Basemap for graphical reference and assisting planners and engineers

The amount of detail that orthoimagery produces using high-resolution satellite imagery is of immense value and provides an extreme amount of detail of the focus and surrounding areas. Maps are designed to communicate a highly structured messages about the world. As maps are location-based, aerial imagery supports people to orient themselves.