Dawn of a new era: the image information age

The explosion in commercially available high-resolution imagery in near-real-time will drive the new GIS marketplace and will leverage a fundamental shift in the way we create and use “maps”. The map of the future will be an intelligent image with virtual resolution and which can be interactively navigated and queried in two, three, or four dimensions. High standards of precision and data integrity for these worldwide digital building blocks will be maintained through GPS and metadata “agents”. Access to this vision will be at the mass-market level for non-technical individuals through the “Home Shopping Channel for Imagery”