Google Earth's new satellite sends its first image


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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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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

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.

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

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

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!!

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!

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. ;)

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 :(

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