Officially joined the satellite map-Baidu Baidu maps, maps, satellite images
Baidu map today formally launched a satellite map function, the current coverage of the first cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, 35, provided by the Chinese four-dimensional image data.
According to reports, and other map products or services compared to satellite images as it involves huge capital investment and technical capacity constraints, access threshold is very high. Which is currently very few companies offer this service reasons.
Baidu said the person in charge of the map, satellite map covers the commercial satellite industry chain acquisition side, agency side, and satellite images, and many other images using side chain link. Use satellite images to get the original image data side, the need to \"select the original image, coordinates correction, image color, mosaic inlay, quality of plans,\" and many other technical aspects of production.
Baidu launched the first satellite images map covering Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other 35 cities, to the end of this year more than 300 cities across the country to achieve full coverage, the basic limitation of these satellite images is 2010-2011.
Baidu Map responsible person said that Baidu had already put in a lot of resources and efforts, the use of satellite remote sensing images from China Siwei Surveying and Mapping Technology Co., LTD.
It is understood that all the Chinese four-dimensional image data from the U.S. commercial satellite data provider DigitalGlobe company. China is the United States, the four-dimensional general agent in China, with QuickBird, WorldView1 and WorldView2 three half-meter class satellites right agent. (Text / SAN)
