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DMCii has introduced 22 metre imagery to its geospatial image library. The library is currently compilled from 32 metre imagery.

DMCii is a company established by Surry Satellite Technology to operate the Disaster Management Constellation, a series of small satellites aimed at supplying imagery in the event of a disaster.

The new data will boost the effectiveness of the DMC system for precision agriculture and deforestation monitoring.

Since the successful launch of the two new DMC imaging satellites on 29 July, both UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 have been commissioned and carefully calibrated to match the existing DMC constellation satellites. The standard red, green and near infrared spectral bands have been selected to have the same characteristics as Landsat and to provide a reliable data source for many earth observation applications with the added benefit of wide area coverage and daily imaging capability.

The two new satellites increase the DMC constellation imaging capacity twenty-fold, enabling DMCii to image the whole world several times per year if required.

A direct downlink reception service will be available in Q1 2010 for customers with compatible ground stations, offering near real-time imaging.

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