[sdiy] OT-Sattelite images WAS: Building a Synth-DIY Map

[Tim Parkhurst]

It is widely known that license plate numbers can be read from the highest
resolution satellite images (assuming your license plate points UP). I would
think that would require at least 1 or 2 inch per pixel resolution.

Again, if you live in the US, go to www.terraserver.microsoft.com , punch on
your address, select "Urban Areas" (higher resolution pics than the "Aerial
Photo" link) and then zoom in all the way to see 0.25 meter resolution
images. THEN you'll see your Synares (if you had them out on the lawn on the
day the satellite went over).


Tim (I'm not employed by the Skunk Works, I just smell like it) Servo

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glen [mailto:mclilith at charter.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:17 PM
> To: Tim Parkhurst; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Building a Synth-DIY Map
> 
> 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
> 
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