{"id":4345,"date":"2008-10-09T17:48:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T12:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2020-05-24T10:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:35:41","slug":"google-geoeye-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/10\/google-geoeye-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Google GeoEye-1 Highest-Resolution Satellite Starts Clicking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GeoEye-1<\/strong> is the world&#8217;s highest-resolution commercial satellite, which is sponsored by Google, and has started sending satellite images, the first of which is that of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4346\" title=\"Geoeye satellite\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/geoeye.jpg\" alt=\"Geoeye satellite\" width=\"154\" height=\"152\" align=\"right\" \/>Wired reports that the GeoEye-1 spacecraft can take photos at a <strong>resolution of up to 41 centimeters<\/strong> close enough to zoom in on the home plate of a baseball diamond. They report that its key customer is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.mil\" rel=\"noopener\">National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency<\/a>, a U.S. government agency that analyzes imagery in support of national security and Google is GeoEye&#8217;s second major partner.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the GeoEye-1 will provide imagery to the NGA at the maximum resolution of 43 centimeters, Google will only receive images at a 50-centimeter resolution because of a government restriction, Brender explained. However, Google&#8217;s partnership with GeoEye is <em>exclusive<\/em>, meaning the search-engine giant will be the only online mapping site using the satellite&#8217;s photos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its amazing how high resolution<strong> Satellite imaging<\/strong> is changing the way we view the world sitting in front of our computers. Try finding your house on <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Maps<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/download-google-earth-43-with-street-views-and-sunsets\/\">Google Earth<\/a>, Live Search maps, or <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.yahoo.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo! maps<\/a>. Look into the skies with Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/05\/microsoft-worldwide-telescope-explores-the-universe\/\">WorldWide Telescope<\/a>, or track the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GeoEye-1 is the world&#8217;s highest-resolution commercial satellite, which is sponsored by Google, and has started sending satellite images, the first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}