[sdiy] Building a Synth-DIY Map

[Glen]

At 06:09 PM 4/6/2005 , Tim Parkhurst wrote:

>P.S. Coordinates courtesy of http://terraserver.microsoft.com/default.aspx 
>If you live in the USA, go there, punch in your address, and you can see a
>satellite image of your house with 0.25 meter/pixel resolution. You know the
>old joke "I can see my house from here" ? Well, in the highest resolution
>photo I can see my freaking mailbox from space!

That's nothing. In the supposedly 1-meter resolution photo of my house, I
could barely make out the slender thread of an overhead utility line
passing across the lawn. Now, that's spooky. 

I can only imagine what I would see, if I had a 0.25 meter resolution
image. Maybe I could see my Synare drums from space?

Hmmm... "Synare Drums From Space"
<writes down title...>


Out of curiosity, what is the highest *publicized* resolution that these
satellites operate at? I mean, I hear all sorts of outrageous claims from
conspiracy buffs, but what's a resolution that we can be pretty sure really
exists for a military satellite?


take care,
Glen