Earth Satellite Corporation (EarthSat) has announced the release of NaturalVue 2000, the only global 15-meter resolution natural color image dataset in existence. NaturalVue 2000 is based entirely on Landsat 7 data acquired between 1999 and 2001. The best scenes with minimum cloud cover were selected.
Except for the high polar latitudes, NaturalVue 2000 covers the entire land area of the Earth. It is positionally accurate to better than 50m RMSE. NaturalVue, is more accurate than nearly all maps at 1:100,000 scale, is useful for mapping and GIS datasets.
NaturalVue 2000 has a wide range of geospatial applications. For multi-scale solutions, it can be seamlessly merged with higher resolution data sets, such as SPOT, IKONOS and QuickBird. Fused with a digital elevation model, NaturalVue 2000 is used for flight and 3-D simulation, mission planning, natural resource inventory, and land cover studies.
