Satellite Maps.com
October 25th, 2008 | by admin |satellite maps.com recently declared that the space imaging satellite will complete a polar orbit every 98 minutes, and will remain in the same relative axis while the earth rotates underneath. With the satellite passing over the same position every two or three days, it will be able to map vast swaths of the earth’s surface with unprecedented speed and resolution. This requires a huge data processing capability. With a throughput of 320 megabits of compressed image data per second, the satellite will have the capacity to download roughly 250,000 square kilometers a day.
Space Imaging’s technology also incorporates a unique color-enhancing algorithm that combines spectral (color) information with panchromatic (black-and-white) sharpness for the first time commercially. This will mean enhanced color and near-infrared earth-imaging information for a wide assortment of mapping uses, ranging from agricultural and mining applications to consumer uses such as vacation and real estate planning.
