You may be aware of Goce, the European Space Agency's gravity mapping satellite.

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Start-up Aeryon is mainly focused on the consumer uses of drones, such as replacing satellite mapping with drone mapping.

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Bart Bailey is CEO of 3001 Incorporated, a small satellite mapping company.

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Even locals and compass equipped cartographers lose their way in millennia-old Medina streets flanked by some 3, 000 derbs (winding alleys), which predate city planning and defy satellite mapping.

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Mato Grosso state has pioneered the use of satellite-mapping to enforce a law that obliges Amazonia's landowners to leave 80% of forested land untouched.

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Satellite imagery and street mapping available on a single view.

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Examples include direct broadcast television, satellite communications, and earth mapping.

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You can view maps in terrain or satellite and utilize GPS with altitude reading and position mapping features.

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In other company news, 36 years after astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin strode upon the Earth's only natural satellite, Schmidt's firm has launched Google Moon: A mapping service that lets homo sapiens explore the lunar surface from their PCs.

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But by mapping the tiniest of temperature fluctuations in the CMB, first done by the Cobe satellite in 1991, astronomers can "see" the distribution of matter in the early Universe.

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