Highest publicly-avaliable Earth Satellite Images |
Highest publicly-avaliable Earth Satellite Images |
Apr 10 2007, 03:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 428 Joined: 21-August 06 From: Northern Virginia Member No.: 1062 |
What is the highest resolution publicly-available pictures of the Earth? Just trying to find out, thanks!
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Apr 10 2007, 03:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
I imagine there are electron microscope images of dirt out there somewhere... oh, you meant from orbit?
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Apr 10 2007, 03:22 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Well - a lot of google earth stuff is aerial photography, some of it is satellite (most of the UK is aerial) , Quickbird is 60cm/pixel orbital.
http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/qb/corn...9_2006_dgwm.jpg http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/qb/new_...8_2006_dgwm.jpg http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/qb/las_...4_2005_dgwm.jpg As with that period between MOLA and the second SRTM mission - Publicly available data for Mars is better than that for Earth. Doug |
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Apr 10 2007, 03:35 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 91 Joined: 27-January 05 From: Arlington, Virginia Member No.: 159 |
DigitalGlobe (linked by Doug above) claims the highest resolution publicly available pix (and charges for access), but I found that Google Earth had the exact same image on it's site... for my neighborhood around Washington, DC at least.
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Apr 10 2007, 03:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Interestingly, The Weather Channel's website has recently rolled out a new visualization for their radar/satellite map display. It resembles Google Earth, in that you can zoom in to very-high-resolution aerial photography (where available). Until you get to the highest resolution views, you can even overlay real-time satellite and radar imagery (with your choice of transparency) over the aerial photography.
I don't recall offhand who provides the actual photography used on this site, but I can tell you that, at least for the area right around my own house, it is of higher resolution than that offered by Google Earth (and the Google Earth view is comparable to the best resolution available anywhere in Google Earth). I have no idea what the actual resolutions are, but if the Google Earth site is giving 50cm resolution, I'd have to say that the Weather Channel site is giving at least 30cm resolution. At least in my neighborhood. The Weather Channel site is also more up-to-date -- the Google Earth images of my neighborhood show a local light rail system still under construction, when it has actually been finished (and is shown as finished on the Weather Channel site) for a good two years, now. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Apr 10 2007, 05:32 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 91 Joined: 27-January 05 From: Arlington, Virginia Member No.: 159 |
Hmm. The Weather Channel (actually Microsoft Virtual Earth) image for my neighborhood is again the exact same image as Google and DigitalGlobe.
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Apr 10 2007, 05:45 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
There is also Wikimapia : http://www.wikimapia.org
For the area near my house Wikimapia and Google Earth images are the same. The Weather Channel satellite zoom is a few years out of date. (About 3 by my estimate). -Mike -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Feb 6 2008, 06:54 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 30-November 07 Member No.: 3972 |
I realize this post is old, but here are some WorldView-1 images taken during the satellite's check-out last October (2007).
http://news.satimagingcorp.com/2007/10/new...orldview-1.html Maybe they have more elsewhere. Likely at the Digital Globe site listed in one of the prior posts. Adzel |
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Feb 7 2008, 01:03 PM
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There’s the French SPOT ( Satellite Pour Observation de la Terre ) website but You have to pay for high res images:
http://www.spotimage.fr/web/en/171-products-and-services.php and http://sirius.spotimage.fr/PageSearch.aspx...CookieSupport=1 |
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