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First, we hope everyone had a safe, healthy and happy Christmas, and we hope you are enjoying some downtime on this Friday. Second, the number of applications of satellite imagery seems to increase everyday — it is truly limitless. For example, CNN ran this story about archeologist from the University of Alabama who has used satellite imagery to unearth some previously unknown ruins in Egypt.

In other archeology news, check out this story about how satellite imagery allowed archeologists to discover new Mayan cities in Guatemala. In this day-and-age, we all think that the world is very small, and stories like these show that we have much more to discover about our planet.

Satellite imagery (since we are on the topic of cool and unusual uses) is also used by the United Nations to support humanitarian efforts. Amnesty International also uses it to support its efforts in Darfur.

In addition, more and more news broadcast news organizations are using satellite imagery to round out their stories. DigitalGlobe now provides the NBC “Today” show with access to its images library.

In other satellite imagery news, you can download images and have them mounted into a frame for you with TerraServer. You should also check out ResMap and FlashEarth. Enjoy and happy Friday!

Tags: Archeology, DigitalGlobe, GIS, Satellite Imagery