165TB of New Imagery Added to Bing Maps


Bing Maps Blog 6/25/2012 9:00 AM

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Today we’re thrilled to announce the publication of our largest satellite release to date. In fact, this release is larger than all of our past Aerial releases combined!



The latest Aerial release includes new Satellite imagery as well as Global Ortho photography. Both releases total 165 terabytes of new data live on Bing Maps. Prior to this, our existing Aerial footprint was 129 terabytes total.



AERIAL: HIGH-RESOLUTION NADIR OR "STRAIGHT DOWN" ORTHOPHOTOS TAKEN BY AIRCRAFT OR SATELLITE



SATELLITE



Total coverage of new satellite imagery currently live on Bing Maps! Visit Bing Maps World Tour App to view full coverage.



This release features imagery over North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Europe and Asia. The total area covered in this data release is nearly 38 million square kilometers.



Oropeza Mountains

Chuquisaca, Bolivia

Durrat Al Bahrain

Kingdom of Bahrain









Hagia Sophia

Istanbul, Turkey

Tongass National Forest

Glacier Bay N.P. and Preserve, Alaska









Samples of New Satellite Imagery from Around the World!



Mountains near Aganzhen

Lanzhou, China







Burj Khalifa

Dubai, United Arab Emirates







Fortaleza de Santa Cruz

Jurujuba, Brazil







Moroccan Mountains

Assa, Morocco







Sarychevo Peak Volcano

Sarychevo, Russia







ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:

Taipei, Taiwan

Santiago, Chile

Mexico City, Mexico

St. Petersburg, Russia

Giza, Egypt

Jaipur, India

Namib Desert, Namibia





GLOBAL ORTHO



Shaded areas indicate 30cm Aerial imagery; yellow coverage highlights the May, 2012 release.

Visit Bing Maps World Tour App to view full coverage. To view the June Global Ortho release in the World Tour App, click on the "Select Releases" tab and choose the "Aerial - GlobalOrtho Jun. 2012 release.



As of today the Global Ortho project is 85% acquired and published. Just this month, Bing Imagery Technologies hit a significant milestone by completing 100% of aerial photography over the United States. The photography in Europe is slated to be finished by this fall and all updated imagery should be published by the end of 2012.



Tiger Ridge Lake

Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

Fields near San Agustin

Andalusia, Spain









Parque Natural Posets-Maladeta

Aragón, Spain

Fields of Toledo

Castile-La Mancha, Spain









Extraterrestrial Highway

Nye County, Nevada

Fields near Maldà

Catalonia, Spain









The Aerial Global Ortho release of June, 2012 is a total of 160 Areas of Interest (AOI), and spans 1.03 million square kilometers. To date, Bing Maps has a total of 1,266 AOIs that stretch across 9.54 million square kilometers!



Space Park Promenade

Bremen, Germany

Parque Natural da Ria Formosa

Faro, Portugal









Schloss Moritzburg

Moritzburg, Germany

Mendenhall Glacier

Juneau, Alaska