Google Earth's new satellite sends its first image

[Nipun Mohta]

LONDON: Google Earth's new satellite, GeoEye-1, has provided a high resolution picture of Pennsylvania-based Kutztown University campus, which also happens to be its first picture.

The satellite took the picture on Tuesday when it was in a 423-mile-high orbit over the East Coast of the U.S.

"We expect the quality of the imagery to be even better as we continue the calibration activity," the Telegraph quoted Brad Peterson, GeoEye's vice president of operations, as saying.

The 500million-dollar satellite's main client is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, but Google is its major sponsor and has exclusive commercial rights to its images.

GeoEye-1 can address national security concerns by providing its governmental clients with higher resolution photos than commercial partners like Google, which plans to use the images on Google Maps and Google Earth.

The satellite imagery from GeoEye-1 will be of a higher resolution and better quality than what is currently available on Google Maps and Google Earth.

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[darkmanx21]

That's great, but...where is the picture?

[episode]

That's great, but...where is the picture?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...&iwloc=addr

[PNWDweller]

I would suspect here for the most current, although none just yet.

http://launch.geoeye.com/LaunchSite/

Found it:

http://www.satimagingcorp.com/gallery/geoeye-1-kutztown.html

[qdave]

now if entire earth would be photographed in such detail!

[Rappy Veteran]

Thats pretty sweet quality, can't wait to see the rest!

[.KICK]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...&iwloc=addr

Might be me but when zoomed in really close, it has problems everywhere :s Seems to be lines and green specks all over.

[neufuse Veteran]

Oh sure do Kutztown, but not IUP...

[Dane]

Not too bad at all!

Pretty odd that that uni is only 45-50mins away from me lol.

They need to give dates when they are gonna take pictures, we can make huge signs haha.

[AudioDope]

Now if i can just control it using my arrow keys and get a live video stream...

[gregb0b]

Nice, Maybe google maps will update. They have had the same image of my street for 3 years..... half of the buildings are no longer there but show up on the map.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Now if i can just control it using my arrow keys and get a live video stream...

stalkervision?

That's a really cool picture, hopefully the will update the entire globe, or launch more satelites

[Sethos]

I've seen more details on a Live Earth photo of my hometown :s

Am I missing something here?

[capr]

so sweet.... i personally see this as the future of our cars... if the car could talk to a live satellite link the satellite could tell it exactly what's going on around the car could easily navigate itself....

[andrew_f]

It's good quality. But I find looking at things in Live Search Maps' birds eye mode to be much more enjoyable, for example in the same area as this google picture was taken you can have this...

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...n&encType=1

Really liking the quality of this new Google satallite though.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

It's good quality. But I find looking at things in Live Search Maps' birds eye mode to be much more enjoyable, for example in the same area as this google picture was taken you can have this...

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...n&encType=1

Really liking the quality of this new Google satallite though.

Oh wow... my street looks SO much better in Live Search maps. I thought they both used the same images, but this is so much better then Google Maps

[The Teej]

LONDON: Google Earth's new satellite, GeoEye-1...

Anyone else thought this said Goldeneye at first glance? I actually thought Google made their own Goldeneye for a second :laugh:

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Anyone else thought this said Goldeneye at first glance? I actually thought Google made their own Goldeneye for a second :laugh:

LOL, yes. One of the best movies ever. I thought they had finally launched the Goldeneye satellite

[SMELTN]

Might be me but when zoomed in really close, it has problems everywhere :s Seems to be lines and green specks all over.

That's not the correct link.. Its actually http://media.satimagingcorp.com/geoeye-1-kutztown.jpg

Which WOW the picture quality is amazing.. I mean it looks like it was taken from a helicopter not from space!!

[basix]

That's not the correct link.. Its actually http://media.satimagingcorp.com/geoeye-1-kutztown.jpg

Which WOW the picture quality is amazing.. I mean it looks like it was taken from a helicopter not from space!!

That's more like it, that link uptop looked shabby! And yes it looks like it was surveyed form a helicopter rather than space!

[PNWDweller]

That's not the correct link.. Its actually http://media.satimagingcorp.com/geoeye-1-kutztown.jpg

Which WOW the picture quality is amazing.. I mean it looks like it was taken from a helicopter not from space!!

As posted in #4 in this thread. ;)

[Huleboeren]

I've seen more details on a Live Earth photo of my hometown :s

Am I missing something here?

Satellite image vs photo taken from an airplane!

[Sethos]

Satellite image vs photo taken from an airplane!

I'm talking regular satellite photos, not the airplane shots.

[Crazysah]

Wow. Only if the rest of the world would have such quality!

[Rappy Veteran]

I've seen more details on a Live Earth photo of my hometown :s

Am I missing something here?

I wish our town had good quality...from Live Earth you can see my town from Google Earth you can't see anything it was cloudy :(