... it will be possible by 2014 to photograph all of the continents in colour at a resolution of 1 metre, every week. How? With a constellation of 13 Earth-orbiting microsatellites at 600 km, imaging everything in their path and downlinking compressed data to processing centres around the world.The technology behind this e-CORCE, a network of 13 microsatellites and 50 ground stations, with a whoppy price tag of EUR 400 mln. (Via Geomatiknyheter.se)
28.10.08
1 earth, 1 pixel, 1 meter (2014)
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