Geo Eye signs satellite deal with Google
The new eye in the sky
COMMERCIAL SATELLITE imaging company Geo Eye has signed an exclusive deal with Google. The company will provide the search engine giant with high-resolution imagery from its new Geo Eye-1 satellite.
The Geo Eye-1 will be carried into orbit by a Delta II rocket emblazoned with the seemingly ubiquitous Google logo on September 4th.
The new satellite is reportedly capable of relaying black and white images at .41 meters and color images at 1.65 meters. Geo Eye-1 will also allow Google to map natural and man-made features within three meters of their actual location without ground control points.
The satellite is expected to cover 700,000 square kilometers in a single day and 350,000 square kilometers while in multispectral mode.
According to Google spokeswoman Kate Hurowitz, Geo Eye's high-resolution imagery will, "provide users with access to rich, interactive visual image maps of the Earth". µ
L'Inq
Reuters
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How long before "real time" imagery?
Or will the military secret people put a stop to that one? Imagine news broadcasts where you could go online and see the journo, the army and the "insurgents/locals getting rid of thieving army of invaders stealing their country's wealth" having a pitch battle, live!Or football, motor racing, etc, but u can control the image you see.
Or your boss checking that the traffic really is as bad as you say it is, using the sat-nav locator in your company car to check where you really are.
Or parents/police checking on kids to see they are safe/commiting crime.
Combine this with CCTV, tagging of the public using their mobiles/cars and we are in for an interesting future.
Adverts changing on billboars depending on who is driving towards them, time of day/customer foot fall.
I've just had a great idea, seriously.
How long?
oh.....about the time you're willing to put up the $500M to put one in orbit......