... 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)
In 2014 and if the French space agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) is right:
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12.07.08
Wetware beats Software
Adena Schutzberg from AllPointsBlog has a funny story from The Scotsman about a 989-mile race in
the UK. Three teams should find their way along several waypoints. A team was relying on road signs and locals' advice, another was using road maps, the third was guided by satnav.
Guess who won?
The satnav-guided car finished one-and-a-half hours behind the map car – driven by women – which itself came in half an hour behind the winning signs-and-directions-led vehicle – driven by men.
(...) The satnav team were hampered by the gadget alerting them to non-existent roundabouts and exits and directing them into "no entry" streets and along slow country lane "short cuts" rather than motorways.
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