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              Google Satellite Now Watching You From 423 Miles Up
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
| The GeoEye satellite that Google will use to provide mapping imagery at 50-centimeter resolution successfully blasted into space today. So don’t leave your underwear lying all over your lawn. Andy Plesser of Beet.TV put together a cool video animation GeoEye-1 will orbit 423 miles above Earth, but it will be able to gather imagery with details the size of 41 centimeters… Google, though, is permitted to use data only with a resolution of 50cm because of the terms of GeoEye’s license with the U.S. government. Each day, the satellite will be able to gather a high-resolution “pan-sharpened “The GeoEye-1 satellite has the highest ground resolution color imagery available in the commercial marketplace and will produce high-quality imagery with a very accurate geolocation,” said Google spokeswoman Kate Hurowitz, adding that most commercial satellite imagery has a resolution of 60cm. “It is our goal to display high-resolution imagery for as much of the world as possible, and GeoEye-1 will help further that goal.” Have Your Say: Google Satellite Now Watching You From 423 Miles Up Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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