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In case watching the earth on your computer isn’t enough for you, as of yesterday the Dish Network is offering 24 hour live viewing of satellite imagery of the earth on their new channel called “Dish Earth“.
Dish Earth’s satellite images come from a camera on the Echostar 11 satellite, which was launched last year by DISH Network in an attempt to surpass Direct TV’s business and stay on top of the HD scene. So now DISH network has over 100 HD channels, one of which is the new Dish Earth.
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The technological advances in finding out if your significant other is being faithful have changed and evolved a lot over the years. Used to be people would hire a private investigator to watch someone. I imagine that’s still done, but then came home surveillance video cameras fashioned out of ballpoint pens, cameras hidden inside picture frames and all connected to very expensive viewing equipment. So that made things easier.
Apparently the newest, high tech way people have been finding out about unfaithful spouses is from Google’s street view. It’s kind of luck of the draw, because it really depends when the satellite images were shot whether or not you get some scandalous goodies, but some have definitely shown up since the launch of Google Street View.
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If you have a penchant for cartography, you’ll love Google Earth’s historical imagery capabilities. You can see how places on the earth looked prior to now. Some places you can see from the 50s and even earlier. It’s interesting to see the changes in areas over time. I’m sure you’ve seen this even in your own neighborhood.
If you’d like to check out historical maps, just do this:
Click View > Historical Imagery
or
Click the Clock icon in the toolbar above the 3D viewer.
The small vertical lines on the timeline indicate the dates of different imagery available for your location.
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Yesterday Google announced that it’s launching street view for 25 cities across the UK. I think here in the US we take street view in Google for granted, since we’ve had it for a while now. But a lot of places in the world have not had this capability so it’s very exciting.
The newest street view cities are London, Edinburgh and Oxford.
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More on the Google map blurring of selective places:
Did you know that Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney’s home was blurred out while he was in office. And now, mysteriously, the blur has disappeared? Yeah, I just read about that yesterday. Why this is isn’t confirmed, but there are theories.
And here’s one of them by Stuff.co.nz. I must say I tend to agree with it. Thought you might like to read about it. Thanks to Stuff.co.nz for the original post.
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Most of us know how valuable GPS technology is to us on a personal level. We use navigation systems in our cars, we have iPhones with Map applications to help us find anything anytime, keep us from getting lost, etc.
This technology continues to be utilized for larger purposes that we never even think about. Here’s one example I discovered today. A company called Network Fleet, whose mission and purpose is wireless vehicle management, has just today launched their new satellite maps. For fleets. They have implemented 3D satellite mapping systems to be used with entire fleets of vehicles. Here’s the press release.
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We all love Google Earth. Personally I’ve played with it for countless hours, checking out the different layers, taking myself on tours, looking for and at strange unexplainable images that appear occasionally whenever I find out about them on the internet.
Then Google Sky came out, and that was fun for a while as well. And it gets better with each new version of Google Earth. This newest version, 5.0, is the best yet for many reasons and here’s just one:
MARS!
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If you create applications for iPhone, want to create apps for iPhone or just think the subject is interesting, then it might interest you to know that Useful Networks has released MapNinja.
MapNinja is a touch-enable map viewer for iPhone and iTouch that you can connect to your own iPhone/iTouch application by adding only three lines of code. Developers can get it for free with ads or they also have an ad-free version you can purchase a license for through them.
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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.
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If you’re anywhere near Concord, New Hampshire, you’re in luck. There have been some major upgrades and improvements to what was already “the most technologically advanced planetarium within a 900-mile radius…” The Discovery Center has some amazing features that you should know about, as fans of satellite images.
And it has gotten bigger. The 45,000-square-foot McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, which essentially quadrupled the Planetarium’s size, had its unveiling Friday, March 6, at 4 p.m. with rave reviews.
Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by EarthGirl
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