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Highest publicly-avaliable Earth Satellite Images
tuvas
post Apr 10 2007, 03:14 PM
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What is the highest resolution publicly-available pictures of the Earth? Just trying to find out, thanks!
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post Apr 10 2007, 03:22 PM
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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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- tuvas   Highest publicly-avaliable Earth Satellite Images   Apr 10 2007, 03:14 PM
- - dvandorn   I imagine there are electron microscope images of ...   Apr 10 2007, 03:17 PM
- - djellison   Well - a lot of google earth stuff is aerial photo...   Apr 10 2007, 03:22 PM
- - babakm   DigitalGlobe (linked by Doug above) claims the hig...   Apr 10 2007, 03:35 PM
- - dvandorn   Interestingly, The Weather Channel's website h...   Apr 10 2007, 03:48 PM
- - babakm   Hmm. The Weather Channel (actually Microsoft Virt...   Apr 10 2007, 05:32 PM
|- - Adzel   I realize this post is old, but here are some Worl...   Feb 6 2008, 06:54 PM
- - Juramike   There is also Wikimapia : http://www.wikimapia.or...   Apr 10 2007, 05:45 PM
- - PhilCo126   There’s the French SPOT ( Satellite Pour Observati...   Feb 7 2008, 01:03 PM

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