![]() And now we are on the front end of the spear that is commercializing this technology."Ĭonsidered the world's most-accurate commercial imaging satellite, the GeoEye-1 had been undergoing calibration and inspection since it was launched on Sept. "Just like the internet, just like GPS, just like telecom - all invented by the government. "We're commercializing a technology that was once only in the hands of the governments," Brender said. However, Google's partnership with GeoEye is exclusive, meaning the search-engine giant will be the only online mapping site using the satellite's photos. There's one catch for Google: While the GeoEye-1 will provide imagery to the NGA at the maximum resolution of 43 cm, Google will only receive images at a 50-cm resolution because of a government restriction, Brender explained. But by March 2006, a third of the world population could get a bird's-eye view of their own homes in high resolution. For example, when Google Earth launched in 2004, its imagery was low-res and spotty. But only in recent years the technology became available to the public and businesses while concurrently making dramatic strides in coverage and resolution. Since around the late 70s, the military has used high-resolution spy satellites capable of reading newspaper headlines in Red Square.
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