Google Earth with GeoEye: high def pictures
Google Maps is going high-definition with GeoEye-1, a satellite launched by GeoEye, an aerial and geospatial information company. GeoEye-1 was launched Sept. 6 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and has been going through calibration and check-out since it was launched. This week, the satellite returned its first images. “We are pleased to release the first GeoEye-1 image, bringing us even closer to the start of the satellite’s commercial operations and sales to our customers,” said Matthew O’Connell, GeoEye’s CEO. “This is a remarkable achievement, and I want to thank all of our employees, customers, especially the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, strategic partners, vendors and investors for their support.”
Later this fall, GeoEye expects to begin selling images from the satellite to customers. The satellite functions by simultaneously collecting 0.41-meter ground resolution black-and-white imagery in its panchromatic mode and 1.65-meter color. However, due to U.S. licensing restrictions, customers will only be able to purchase imagery processed to half-meter resolution. The satellite’s images are good news for Google because it allows crisper, high-definition images to populate Google Maps. Now, instead of wondering whether or not the fuzzy, slightly out-of-focus silver blob in your driveway is your car, you’ll be able to tell for sure. The first images GeoEye returned are of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. The images are rather striking.
Source: CRN
Comments(20)
register for a pic? i think not!
Yeah same here
can someone get that hd pic out….
give some link maybe
no register:
http://www.satimagingcorp.com/galleryimages/geoeye-1-kutztown.jpg
http://mirrors.mednor.net/slashdot/10092008/geoeye-1-kutztown.jpg
Other info
http://hothardware.com/News/GeoEye1-EarthImaging-Satellite-Goes-Online/
care
Don’t see why they are bother with stupid US licensing restrictions though. Now when they got these high-res images from all over the world surely they must have noticed there is a world outside US.
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Well i was wondering whether or not the fuzzy, slightly out-of-focus silver blob was a car.
No better than current google images
hey root : can u zoom more
The calibration looks pretty off, the roads all have magenta lines next to them. And as 7 said, it looks pretty much the same as current American Google Maps.
sucky, not better than current googlemaps, not only american xD
google is taking over the world
cool it was just by my home town
current google images are better!!!
Here’s what it can do… awesome! Too bad you won’t see this detail on Google
http://www.directionsmag.com/images/satelliteimagery/geoeye_greensburg_ks/greensburg_ks_mjh_tenth_foot_res_12_may_2007_hwy_54_at_main_annotated.jpg
good grief…..thats like blue ray quality…
Mike is that real?
the adress says this pic is from 2007 even though thats not possible
yeah and no magenta lines on that one. will be able to see clouds in hi def soon..
I have always been a fan of google earth, but they are to slow to get the images updated. I wanted good pics to look at places to go fishing and I found something much better. Unfortunately it is from microsoft that I cant stand anything MS, but check out MS virtual Earth. Google is currently lacking in a big way. Also if you want to save the images, just go get the free screenhunter 5.
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Thanks for sharing..
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