From Forbidden Kingdom to the Whitehouse, this is a cool panorama toy Mr. George Eastman never dreamed of when he started Kodak (though his company made this satallite mounted digital camera).
Geek-out specs numbers: taking 16inch mono-chromic images & 1.65-meter color images at 423 miles (681 kilometers) up and moving at a speed of about four-and-a-half miles (seven kilometers) per second, the satellite camera can distinguish objects on the Earth's surface as small as 16 inches in size according to the press release. That's just fricken sweet! GeoEye1 = Ultimate Creeper Tool for some people I know.
If you're wondering what else it can do other than creep Wreck Beach in BC, check out the case studies in the media room. Due to US (paranoid) regulations, you can only get a 0.5m image printed, apparently they are helping Google Earth do their updates.
Commercially, the camera has been used it for crazy stuff from tracking open water channels in Antarctica and searching for Ghengis Khan's tomb to assessing floods & tornadoes wreckage and finding the Arab freighter booty by Somalian pirates.
If nothing else, there's some amazing galleries of natural beauty, structures like airports & sports arenas, and modern/ancient cities from around the world. Worth a gander but be warned, other than previews in the flash slideshow (with a dozen or four dozen images each) the full high rez images are 1-2 megs each and totally awesome.
From Area 51 to the Thames to Golden Gate Bridge to Casablanca to Venice, it's quite the road trip. Everywhere from Midway Island to a wind-farm in Palm Springs to Machu Piccu above the clouds to the Pyramids, it's gorgeous stuff.
I mean this is way cooler than Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too for the ants. The earth is like three times bigger at least! Just couldn't resist putting in that quote cuz I feel small looking at those photos.
so ENJOY Planet Earth ^_^ yes it's Earth Day on April 22 so think of stuff you can do to celebrate/clean up.
http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/
Geek-out specs numbers: taking 16inch mono-chromic images & 1.65-meter color images at 423 miles (681 kilometers) up and moving at a speed of about four-and-a-half miles (seven kilometers) per second, the satellite camera can distinguish objects on the Earth's surface as small as 16 inches in size according to the press release. That's just fricken sweet! GeoEye1 = Ultimate Creeper Tool for some people I know.
If you're wondering what else it can do other than creep Wreck Beach in BC, check out the case studies in the media room. Due to US (paranoid) regulations, you can only get a 0.5m image printed, apparently they are helping Google Earth do their updates.
Commercially, the camera has been used it for crazy stuff from tracking open water channels in Antarctica and searching for Ghengis Khan's tomb to assessing floods & tornadoes wreckage and finding the Arab freighter booty by Somalian pirates.
If nothing else, there's some amazing galleries of natural beauty, structures like airports & sports arenas, and modern/ancient cities from around the world. Worth a gander but be warned, other than previews in the flash slideshow (with a dozen or four dozen images each) the full high rez images are 1-2 megs each and totally awesome.
From Area 51 to the Thames to Golden Gate Bridge to Casablanca to Venice, it's quite the road trip. Everywhere from Midway Island to a wind-farm in Palm Springs to Machu Piccu above the clouds to the Pyramids, it's gorgeous stuff.
I mean this is way cooler than Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too for the ants. The earth is like three times bigger at least! Just couldn't resist putting in that quote cuz I feel small looking at those photos.
so ENJOY Planet Earth ^_^ yes it's Earth Day on April 22 so think of stuff you can do to celebrate/clean up.
http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/
