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15488 Re: Satellite imagery...
   Due - several years ago i put together a database of all the ortho-rec...
monkeytrots   CONSTITUTION   03 Oct 2011
10:07 AM
15487 Re: Satellite imagery...
   Thank you, Due - valuable info on the GeoEye. That is INCREDIBLE re...
monkeytrots   CONSTITUTION   03 Oct 2011
9:36 AM

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Re: Satellite imagery...

By: DueDillinger in CONSTITUTION
Mon, 03 Oct 11 6:38 AM
Msg. 15483 of 21975
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You're right about much of Google's imagery being aerial. I know for a fact that the NJ imagery is the latest USGS orthophotography.

The highest resolution commercially available satellite imagery is from GeoEye (GEOY). The GeoEye-1 satellite was launched three years ago with .41m/pixel panchromatic and 1.65m/pixel spectral sensors. They combine these to produce .5m resolution color imagery. Earlier standard was the Ikonos satellite with 1m resolution. Check it out.

http://www.geoeye.com

This is a .5m image of Vatican City from GeoEye-1:

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