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From: mkw-detective@t-online.de (MK-Wirtschaftsdienst GmbH) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:38:53 -0800 |
found these in a surveillance newsgroup: ******************************************************** Subject: A spy satellite of one's own Soon you'll be able to buy images from space that show the car in your driveway. Spying on the earth from space was a monopoly of governments for its first two decades. In 1986 the French company SPOT IMAGE [19] began selling images from its SPOT satellite to all comers. At 10 meters minimum resolution, the images were sufficient to resolve objects the size of houses.Now a US company -- EarthWatch, of Longmont, Colo- rado -- has launched EarlyBird [20] atop a Russian booster [21]. For a few hundred dollars charged to your credit card you'll be able to order a 3-meter resolution photo of any place on earth. Visit this simulation to appreciate the difference between 3-meter and 10-meter resolution [22]. In 1999 EarthWatch plans to launch the first of two next-generation QuickBird satellites with a minimum resolution below 1 meter. That's just about sharp enough to resolve people from space [23]. Here are specs for the EarlyBird and QuickBird satellites [24]. Eyes in the sky with such acuity must begin to raise privacy concerns. Visit the Freedom Forum [25], [26] for some cautionary thoughts from technology director Adam Clayton Powell Jr. [19] http://www.spot.com/ [20] http://www.digitalglobe.com/news/pr_eb1launch.html [21] http://www.sjmercury.com/breaking/headline2/080192.htm [22] http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/remosen/eng/3mimage.htm [23] http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/remosen/eng/1mimage.htm [24] http://www.digitalglobe.com/company/ewconstell.html [25] http://www.freedomforum.org/technology/1997/12/31satell.asp [26] http://www.freedomforum.org/technology/1997/12/05sputnik.asp ********************************************************************** Subject: Re: GPS relates to scanning? Actually any radio enthusiast should look at GPS. Since you posted I have researched the subject some and there is much to learn about. The hardware is fantastic and cheap. I downloaded a demonstration program from England that interfaces with a GPS unit and ran it in demo mode on my PC. VERY INTERESTING! http://www.gpss.co.uk/ This is the stuff that Hertz must be using in their rentals. I found other software that works with the Compaq C-140 HPC. It displays a map on the HPC as you drive around taking the data from the GPS satellites overhead. http://www.teletype.com/gps/ Finally I found a site that gives you your GPS coordinates from your input of an address. http://www.geocode.com/cgi-win/ef.exe TIGER Mapping Service The "Coast to Coast" Digital Map Database ->http://tiger.census.gov/ Another a map http://www.mapquest.com/ Actually I found one that gives you coordinates for a group of similar items in a state or the whole USA. The first site also gives you the FIPS number you need at that location which for the new WX alert radios and federal information broadcasts. USA GPS Waypoint Server ->http://calcite.rocky.edu/gps/ A neat GPS tutorial is also found at http://www.trimble.com/gps/fsections/aa_f1.htm +--------------------------------------------------------------- | UFOMIND MAILING LIST - Supporting the Ufomind/PsiSpy Website | http://www.ufomind.com/misc/ - Glenn Campbell, Moderator | Submissions to: ufomind@lists.best.com | "unsubscribe" (in body) to: ufomind-request@lists.best.com | | RELEVANCE OF THIS MESSAGE: Area 51 satellite imagery | | Index: Satellite Imagery Resources +---------------------------------------------------------------
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Created: Jan 17, 1998