{"id":4574,"date":"2008-09-09T04:20:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T03:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4574"},"modified":"2008-09-09T04:20:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T03:20:12","slug":"google-satellite-now-watching-you-from-423-miles-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/google-satellite-now-watching-you-from-423-miles-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Satellite Now Watching You From 423 Miles Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/henry_blodget\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; color: #082d38;\">Henry Blodget<\/span><\/a><\/span> | The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/geoeye-1-satellite-launches-space-vandenberg\/story.aspx?guid={8AEEE2E1-F8A7-4D94-8E65-C5E51AA8FF66}&amp;dist=hppr\"><span style=\"color: #157491;\">GeoEye satellite<\/span><\/a> that Google will use to provide mapping imagery at 50-centimeter resolution successfully blasted into space today. So don&#8217;t leave your underwear lying all over your lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Plesser of Beet.TV put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beet.tv\/2008\/09\/breaking-satell.html\"><span style=\"color: #157491;\">a cool video animation<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"snap_com_shot_link_icon\" class=\"snap_preview_icon\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; background-position: -1128px 0px; min-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; min-height: 0px; left: auto; float: none; background-image: url(http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.46\/theme\/silver\/palette.gif); visibility: visible; max-width: 2000px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 14px; max-height: 2000px; line-height: normal; padding-top: 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-style: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; top: auto; height: 12px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; cssfloat: none; border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.46\/t.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a> (below). Stephen Shankland of CNET <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-10028842-93.html?tag=mncol;title\"><span style=\"color: #157491;\">has the story<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"snap_com_shot_link_icon\" class=\"snap_preview_icon\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; background-position: -1128px 0px; min-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; min-height: 0px; left: auto; float: none; background-image: url(http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.46\/theme\/silver\/palette.gif); visibility: visible; max-width: 2000px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 14px; max-height: 2000px; line-height: normal; padding-top: 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-style: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; top: auto; height: 12px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; cssfloat: none; border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.46\/t.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">GeoEye-1 will orbit 423 miles above Earth, but it will be able to gather imagery with details the size of 41 centimeters&#8230; Google, though, is permitted to use data only with a resolution of 50cm because of the terms of GeoEye&#8217;s license with the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Each day, the satellite will be able to gather a high-resolution &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pansharpened_image\"><span style=\"color: #157491;\">pan-sharpened<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"snap_com_shot_link_icon\" class=\"snap_preview_icon\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; background-position: -1128px 0px; min-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; min-height: 0px; left: auto; float: none; background-image: url(http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.46\/theme\/silver\/palette.gif); visibility: visible; max-width: 2000px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 14px; max-height: 2000px; line-height: normal; padding-top: 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-style: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; top: auto; height: 12px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; cssfloat: none; border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.46\/t.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a>&#8221; format surface area equal to that of about New Mexico, the company said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;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,&#8221; said Google spokeswoman Kate Hurowitz, adding that most commercial satellite imagery has a resolution of 60cm. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Blodget | The GeoEye satellite that Google will use to provide mapping imagery at 50-centimeter resolution successfully blasted into space today. So don&#8217;t leave your underwear lying all over your lawn. Andy Plesser of Beet.TV put together a cool video animation (below). Stephen Shankland of CNET has the story: GeoEye-1 will orbit 423 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[72],"class_list":{"0":"post-4574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sicence-technology","7":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}