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  1. The commercial outfits are now that good by Animats · · Score: 2 · on NRO To Declassify Cold-War Spy-Sat Tech

    Digital Globe and GeoEye now operate commercial imagery satellites. That's where Microsoft and Google get their imagery for areas where they don't have close aerial coverage. DoD buys a lot of their info. Best commercial resolution is 45cm. Which, realistically, is enough to find most threats that can be seen from above.

    Digital Globe has an analysis of Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan..

  2. Re:WTF Over!!!! by FlyingGuy · · Score: 1 · on NASA Reveals New Images of Apollo Landing Sites

    You are probably right, but have a look at these these from 600+ fucking kilometers!

    Those are from a commercial satellite and fucking NASA can't do better when they are only 25 kilometers above the surface of the moon with NO ATMOSPHERE to get in the way?!

  3. Not particularly high resolution by barath_s · · Score: 1 · on German Radar Satellite Lifts Off Tonight

    I guess the fact that one satellite system will cover the entire earth is notable. Though I assume you could get a patchwork to cover the earth at finer resolution from elsewhere. However, 12 m is still rather coarse, even for commercial imagery. http://www.antrix.gov.in/earth_observation.html "... it offers these data in a multi resolution package of 1m, 2.5m, 5m, 23m, 56m and 180m with suitable spectral resolutions ..." http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/products/imagery-sources/Comparison.aspx 0.41, 0.5 and 1 m resolution commercial packages. Barath

  4. Privatised spying.. by wiredog · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Iridium Pushes Ahead Satellite Project

    Ever heard of GeoEye?

  5. Re:My car is too... by rm999 · · Score: 1 · on Beaver Dam Visible From Space

    I believe this is the satellite Google maps used in my area:
    http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/products/imagery-sources/Default.aspx#geoeye1

    It has a resolution of 1-1.5 feet (the color is separately collected from a 4-5 foot resolution sensor).

  6. Re:weird, huh? by couchslug · · Score: 1 · on Satellite IDs Ships That Cut Cables

    http://www.geoeye.com/products/imagery/geoeye1/default.htm is an example of commercial imagery. Pretty good, and good enough combined with a records check to identify ships.

    "At least now we know all we have to do is drag and anchor to disrupt the communications infrastructure of entire countries."

    Radios and landlines and satellites don't count?

  7. Re:no wonder by Spritzer · · Score: 1 · on NASA Slashing Observations of Earth

    Not to mention ,a href="http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/">Space Imaging and Orbimage who merged last year to form GeoEye. Remote sensing is well on its way to being a primarily commercial capability.