So, I guess the future of Google Maps is where your GPS actually shows your car driving in real time down the highway. I love living in a video game.
No, it's the future of maps, not Google Maps.
Planes Landing in Beijing: Video from Space
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#52Wonder if this can be used over Ukraine/Crimea?
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Bandwidth issues are alleviated by directional antennae, right?
Not necessarily, you still need to collect the transmission. You can still saturate a frequency no matter how focused if enough transmitters are hitting the same receiver.
Exactly. So just deploy enough receivers and focus the transmissions enough so that the frequencies don't get saturated.
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Everyone I know who's worked on microsatellite imaging has talked about the financial district. The thinking goes: watch the Panama or Suez Canal and you're the first one to know when an oil tanker gets delayed, etc..
You can do that right now on a Bloomberg terminal -- definitely don't need satellite imagery. Ships have transponders that tell you where they are. There are definite financial sector use cases, though.
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#56I am more amazed at the lack of smog blocking visibility. Disclaimer: I'm Chinese and I love Beijing as a city, on a good day it's about as clean as LA and on a bad day its...well you can barely see airport terminal when you land.
It could be using a wavelengths that go through smog.
That'd be interesting, given this article I saw a while back:
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1347835/security-fear...
Professor Yang Aiping, an expert in digital imaging with the School of Electronic Information Engineering of Tianjin University and leader of the civilian team, said she was facing tremendous pressure because of the enormous technological challenges.
"Most studies in other countries are to do with fog. In China, most people think that fog and smog can be dealt by the same method. Our preliminary research shows that the smog particles are quite different from the small water droplets of fog in terms of optical properties," she said.
"We need to heavily revise, if not completely rewrite, algorithms in some mathematical models. We also need to do lots of computer simulation and extensive field tests."
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I am pretty certain that's exactly what CIA is doing right now, but using their own spy satellite constellation.
We're still flying U-2s, which, along with certain drones, are far better observation platforms for real-time needs.
It's a mixed bag of emotions, funny, sad, amazed, that the USA is still flying the U2. Which is from the 60's, while the SR-71, the plane meant to replace it has already been decommissioned for over a decade now.
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It seems like the part of the image showing the video is surrounded by pictures (not video). It seems everything is video because he is moving the image around just at the right time. A cool technology enanced with a cool trick.
it's not a trick, it's obviously overlaying video against a google earth background - that's not trickery or cheating, the satellite has a limited FOV and limited bandwidth to tx the data.
"Here you can see Mapbox Streets paired with this video from SkySat-1."
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#59UrtheCast are working on something similar. Their camera recently made it to the ISS and the next step is a spacewalk to install it. http://www.urthecast.com
Both cameras were installed a couple weeks ago and are functioning:
http://blog.urthecast.com/updates/urthecast-cameras-successf...
(Yes, you'd think they'd update their website.)
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#60would LOVE to have a developer API to skybox. The things one could do!
Urthecast says they'll be offering one, although I don't know what they'll end up allowing:
http://www.urthecast.com/developer
What sort of things would you want an API for?