Showing posts with label Google Earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Earth. Show all posts

Convergence2

Monday, September 01, 2008 | , , ,















The concept of convergence of the real world with the net world possibly was understood by us as virtual world, that is take the form of 3d animation from the real world. This concept could be experienced by us in secondlife.com or in lively.com.

But had you thought about being the reverse? Yes, how about if this convergence took the form of the real world that being digitalize? My point is, with online camera you could click real places in real terms time? (this Concept we called "convergence2" to distinguish with general convergence was understood by us)

This kind of technology could have been met by you, although still in simple concept which is in Google Earth. Why simple ? Simply our intention was still was not yet real time. But if capital of the market has sufficed, we were sure a new player just came with “the next logical step” that is real time engine. Had tried that was more real like everyscape.com?

You may visit Beverly Hills in a panoramix manner here. Or the Laguna Beach coast? Isn't this interesting ? You could see around Beverly hills, in fact you in the front of your computer ...

Now, think about future posibility of this concept. Some people mentioned about shopping in your neighbourhood convenience store, visit them online and real time with Google Street View Apps, click at your favourite snack and meal, sit back, and it will delivered to your room just like you ordered a pizza...

If you think this is impossible, so what do you think ?

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New Google Earth Satelitte Launch This Week

Saturday, August 30, 2008 | , , , ,

In Five days (Sept. 4 2008), if nothing wrong happens, New Google Earth Satelitte will launch this week. This satellite named GeoEye-1.

Google's current imagery in Google Earth spans a range of resolution, the coarsest being 15 square meters per pixel, which is only good enough to see larger geographic features. With this new satellite Google Earth capable up to 1,65 meter resolution. However 3 meters resolution will mostly more suitable in cost of bandwidth arround the world.

Google Earth will start collecting new image with bigger resolution from new satelitte after few month from launch date due technical and legal matters.

After a lengthy U.S. Government interagency review, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) notified commercial imagery providers that the 24-hour hold rule that was required for imagery at a resolution better than .82-meter is no longer in place. On June 29, 2007, GeoEye’s commercial remote sensing license was modified to reflect this change. This means that when GeoEye-1 launches in September 2008, GeoEye will be able to sell imagery as soon as possible after it has been captured.

Besides the unrivaled spatial resolution of 0.41-meters or about 16 inches, GeoEye-1 is designed to have three-meter accuracy, which means that customers can map natural and man-made features to within three meters of their actual locations on the surface of the Earth without ground control points. This level of accuracy is unsurpassed. At 0.41-meter resolution, GeoEye-1 would be able to 'see' home plate on a baseball diamond and be able to precisely locate it within three meters of its true location on the surface of the globe. As far as imagery collection, in the panchromatic mode (black and white mode) the satellite will be capable of collecting up to 700,000 square kilometers in a single day and in the multispectral mode (colour mode) 350,000 square kilometers per day. Spatial resolution, geolocation accuracy and large-area coverage are the three specifications that commercial and government customers desire most.

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