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Commercial Digital Imaging of the Earth

Posted by michael on from the still-waiting-for-the-first-webcam-in-space dept.

n7lyg writes "EarthWatch, Inc. is launching a new satellite which will provide 61-centimeter resolution B&w images and 2.5-meter color resolution. The QuickBird 2 will be placed in a sun-synchronous orbit by a Boeing Delta II rocket and provied the highest-resolution commercial images anywhaer by the end of this year. They currently provide reprocessed Landsat 7 images, along with special-order images (you specify the lat/long to provied). So, current price is $500 for a 1-degree tile, all taken from Landsat 7 images. No information on whether the prices for QuickBird images will be more or less expensive."

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  1. One use I'd like to see... by Vuarnet · · Score: 2

    Here in Mexico, we're paying a yearly property tax, which (strangely enough) depends on the exact size of the property. However, until recently those measurements have been made by taking pictures from an airplane. There have been several complaints of mistakes done while measuring.

    Hopefully, using satellite photographs of this resolution could help reduce the chance of such mistakes happening again.
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  2. Re:Cool by Britney · · Score: 2

    Why, is your house sun-synchronous?

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  3. For free by neto_gle · · Score: 2

    You can have some free images on terraserver or globexplorer
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