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Using the Free One-Year Birdseye Satellite Imagery Subscription with Your Astro Handheld

The Astro® 430/T5 and Astro® 900/T9 dog tracking bundles came with a free one-year of use of the Birdseye Satellite Imagery Subscription. (BirdsEye Satellite Imagery is no longer available for purchase or renewal.)

For users with an active subscription1 BirdsEye imagery can be downloaded while the Astro 430 or Astro 900 handheld is connected to a PC or Mac home computer running Garmin BaseCamp™ computer software. 

BaseCamp™ software is used for trip planning, as well as creating and saving data, such as saved waypoints, tracks, and routes. 

BaseCamp™ allows you to select areas to download satellite mapping. Once selected and downloaded into BaseCamp™, the images can be transferred to your Astro handheld or an optional microSD memory card you provide and install inside your Astro. All Birdseye Satellite Subscription map selections, downloads, and transfer functions are built into BaseCamp™. 

The free subscription is automatically enabled when you start selecting areas from within the BaseCamp™ program. 

  • There is no need for any account creation for this free use.
  • There is no need for any device registration for this free use.  

To Download BirdsEye Imagery:

  1. Plug your Astro into your computer via USB cable
  2. Download, Install, and Run the BaseCamp™ program
  3. In BaseCamp™, click Birdseye, then Download Birdseye Imagery
  4. The Birdseye wizard will guide you step by step through the rest of the process.
    • For step-by-step Video Demonstrations on how to use BaseCamp™ and Birdseye, please see below:

Video and Additional Support 

The videos below will show you how to use BaseCamp™ software's menus, tools, and functions to select specific areas, download them, and send them to the device.

Or, If you prefer a more step-by-step style guide on how to use BaseCamp™ and Birdseye please see these links to the manuals below.