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Google buys satellite imaging company Skybox for $500 million

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Coastal change and flood risk assessment (Score: 1)

by rocks@pipedot.org on 2014-06-11 22:22 (#222)

Strike me as potentially good applications for this imagery.
Imagine being able to collect high resolution time slices for before and after big storms and all.

Re: Coastal change and flood risk assessment (Score: 2, Interesting)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-06-12 02:22 (#226)

I was half-expecting that they would use their fleet of street view cards to start launching quadrocopters with aerial cameras. With satelites, even the expensive ones can only go down to a foot or so of resoultion while a fleet of quadrocopters with megapixel cameras could map every last inch of everyone's backyard.

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2014-06-12 10:01 Interesting +1 rocks@pipedot.org

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