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EO Satellite OrbView-3 Successfully Launched

Posted by michael on from the i-spy dept.

Lord Satri writes "Orbview-3 today has joined the flock of Earth Observation satellites. OrbView-3 will deliver 1 m (panchromatic) and 4 m spatial resolution (4 multispectral bands). Amongts other EO high-resolution satellites of importance are QuickBird, Ikonos and Eros-1A."

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  1. These Satellites can be turned around.... by Monster+Zero · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know at least the Quickbird satellite can be turned around to snap pictures of celestial objects. I think there is a picture of the moon taken with Quickbird on the www.digitalglobe.com website. What I really want is a high-res picture of another satellite - like maybe hubble?

  2. High resolution is cool... by d-Orb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ..but coverage is also important. While the commercial EO satellite market seems to cater for very commercial applications (surveying and other civil engineering efforts, for example), in other applications (in fact, some of the most interesting ones), global coverage at any available resolution is far more important.

    For example, while estimating the biomass of the whole northern hemisphere with sub-millimetre accuracy would be cool, knowing it with a ~10 km accuracy is more than acceptable.

    Oh, well, yes, and I do work with microwave radar, and I obviously loathe the high resolution optical (bleurgh!!!) lot :-)))))