Space Imaging
October 24th, 2008 | by admin |When you look up, smile. This year, a company called Space Imaging plans to orbit a satellite 400 miles in space capable of focusing on one square yard of the planet’s surface.
Bridging the gap between photography and aerial mapping has been the Holy Grail for cartographers ever since a camera was first lofted in a hot-air balloon in the mid-19th century. And mapping the earth’s surface with affordable, satellite maps high resolution photo-imagery is the thoroughly up-to-date quest of Space Imaging, a Thornton, Colorado-based company. In late 2006, the company plans to make the wildest dreams of cartographers come true with the launch of its own commercial spy satellite from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.
