I See You with my Geo Eye

Filed under: 3D Satellite Imagery

Have you seen the giant satellite image of the Obama Inauguration?  Here it is for those of you who haven’t seen it.  Click here.

How was this image possible?  A satellite sensor called GeoEye-1.  It was developed by a company called GeoEye and was initially launched on September 6th.  This sensor has the ability to acquire color image data at 1.65 meter resolution.  It can also find objects from space within 3 meters of its location, and can collect more than 350,000 square kilometers of satellite imagery a day.  This would greatly improve Google Earth and Google Maps, making the imagery much more current, and much better resolution than it’s been to this point.

It’s a very exciting time for satellite technology.  Want to see the GeoEye-1 specs?  Here they are.

What will this satellite sensor be used for?  The possibilities are really endless.  They have a contact us page where you can inquire or make requests.  But my guess is this will be a scientific information gathering satellite for the most part.  Filling in the gaps of Google Earth, global surveillance, documenting historical events, those are the main uses that I envision.

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