Commercial Digital Imaging of the Earth

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."