GIS User Testimony: One benefit of high-resolution satellite imagery

The AGIO intuitively knows our work with counties has impact, but the user testimony below made our day. Sometimes it’s the small things that make day-to-day struggles worthwhile and put a smile on your face.

“Though this is not as earth-shaking as some of the other stories, I want to relate how the efforts of the NWA Image Group, the counties here, and the AGIO ‘changed my life’ for the better. This weekend I was brush-hogging one of our pastures and had taken my cell phone with me since [my wife] wasn’t feeling good and I wanted her to be able to contact me. Anyway, somehow I didn’t realize that the phone had fallen out of my pocket. When I did I spent an hour searching – no phone. I went back to the house and got my wife’s phone and came back and called my phone – I thought I’d hear it ringing. Nope! Then I remembered that I have a ‘find my phone’ [application] on my phone. I called the house and [my wife] went on the web and entered the proper information. A Google map appeared with the phone’s location – a green dot and a pulsating circle. But it was all WHITE. There are NO roads in my pasture. I said click on the ‘satellite’ tab. Soon she could see everything and said it’s about 20 feet south of the big tree to the west of the pasture. There it was. Without high resolution imagery I STILL wouldn’t have my phone back!”