SIE SkyView™ Service

The Satellite Image Evidence (SIE) Group at Archer Geographic offers the SIE SkyView™ service for attorneys or other legal professionals in need of a visual aid for a courtroom or other presentation. Through the SkyView service, SIE Group specialists locate the best satellite or aerial image available for a site and case and produce a custom tailored court-ready graphic for one low price.

The Advantages of Satellite Image Graphics in Court

Good graphics help with cognition and information retention by jury members. In short, good graphics help win cases. Satellite images provide visually compelling graphics, realistically showing a site or location in a case. Satellite or aerial photographs have the ability in court to create a "being-in-place" experience, allowing a jury to put themselves into the milieu of a case by virtually visiting a site.

Satellite photos also offer a unique perspective at trial not attainable from other vantage points - giving a synoptic view of a site, and often highlighting relationships not always obvious from the ground. Overhead images put a site or scene into a greater context by showing what is around it, and can effectively illuminate geographic proximities and measures of distances. Satellite photos often illustrate some aspects of an accident scene or other site better than verbal testimony, maps, or other exhibits. 

The SIE SkyView service offers litigators and their support teams a one-stop shop for image graphics. Using the SkyView service ensures our clients that they will receive the best satellite or aerial image available for each case. Each image is properly scaled and prepared for court by experts to have the greatest visual impact, and handled according to strict protocols. When advantageous, satellite photos can be combined with other data and statistics, annotated to direct attention to specific areas, or overlaid with measurements or map features.

In this example at right, crime statistics and distance measurements have been overlaid on a satellite photo of the Union Station area in Washington, D.C. View the full sample.

Court-ready graphics:

• Color optimized satellite images
• Annotated satellite images
• Satellite images with map layers overlaid
• Scaled satellite images showing distances or areas

Graphics with High Visual Impact: Fly-Overs and Animations

For courtroom graphics designed for maximum visual impact on a jury, satellite imagery can be rendered into a 3D perspective view, animated, or used to create a fly-over of a site. The result makes for a dramatic addition to a courtroom presentation, and offers a highly effective way to communicate the nature of a site to a jury through a "virtual visit." In short, the kind of graphics that help win cases.

Through the SIE SkyView service, SIE Group specialists provide legal clients with court-ready, custom produced virtual site visits, fly-overs, and animations for one low fixed price.  

Court-ready graphics:

• 3D visualizations

• Site fly-overs

• Fly-throughs

• Virtual site visits or tours

• Animations

• Panning/zooming effects

The SIE SkyView service is designed to give litigators and legal teams access to optimized, effective court-ready aerial graphics for a great value. The SkyView service is backed by our SIE Group, which offers a complete range of services to legal professionals in the identification and exploitation of satellite image evidence. Contact the SIE Group to discuss how SkyView image graphics or satellite image evidence could help your team secure a favorable verdict, judgment, or settlement in your case.