OhGizmo! » Geoeye-1 http://www.ohgizmo.com Deliciously Geeky... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:08:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Google’s New Satellite Takes Its First Picture http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/10/13/googles-new-satellite-takes-its-first-picture/ http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/10/13/googles-new-satellite-takes-its-first-picture/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:47:23 +0000 Jonathan Kimak http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=14718

By Jonathan Kimak

Last week the GeoEye-1 satellite, which is co-owned/sponsored by Google, took a photo(above) of the Kutztown University campus in Pennsylvania. The satellite is primarily funded by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency(NGA) with Google being the second largest funder.

The satellite is able to take pictures at a resolution of 41cm which is close enough to zoom in on the home plate of a baseball diamond. Google is only allowed to receive photos that are a maximum of 50cm resolution due to government restrictions. The NGA will receive their photos at a 43cm resolution.

Even with restrictions the satellite will provide Google Earth and Google Maps with the best pictures yet.

Right now the GeoEye-1 is undergoing calibration to ensure it achieves maximum resolution.

VIA [ Wired Blog ]

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