Applications

Ground control plays a role in numerous activities in relation to the Earth, including interferometric radar earthquake and landslide evaluation, glacial retreat or advance, land cover mapping, urban planning, photogrammetry and natural resource management, to name but a few.

In order to say anything substantive about the Earth from a spatial viewpoint, the accuracy of the data needs to support the desired results.

This is where CompassData comes into play – we provide rapid-response ground control retrieval virtually anywhere in the world at the desired level of accuracy, and in a timely, cost-effective manner.