Steve Fossett

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
m...
Now you are talking about something I know something about. I have
written the image search software that pretty much has 90% of the
US intelligence market. There are two things you need:

1. Satellite tasking over the area.
2. Enough dedicated eyeballs watching the monitors who know
what to look for.

Believe me, even the commercial satellites such as Digital Globe
have enough information (time / location) and if DG wanted to
collect imagery, they probably could over a weeks time do it.
However, whose going to pay them? Satellite time costs money.
It's not just a bunch of data sitting in a google earth like
database of the entire world. Things are collected as there
is a demand.

GeoEye has already collected the images.

http://www.avweb.com/alm?amazon_stevefossett&kw=Flash

Should yield the dedicated eyeballs.

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Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
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When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate.

is there a way to know just how far the new images extend ?
it seems they don't cover the area I want to look at.


"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk at wow way d0t com wrote in message
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"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
m...
Now you are talking about something I know something about. I have
written the image search software that pretty much has 90% of the
US intelligence market. There are two things you need:

1. Satellite tasking over the area.
2. Enough dedicated eyeballs watching the monitors who know
what to look for.

Believe me, even the commercial satellites such as Digital Globe
have enough information (time / location) and if DG wanted to
collect imagery, they probably could over a weeks time do it.
However, whose going to pay them? Satellite time costs money.
It's not just a bunch of data sitting in a google earth like
database of the entire world. Things are collected as there
is a demand.

GeoEye has already collected the images.

http://www.avweb.com/alm?amazon_stevefossett&kw=Flash

Should yield the dedicated eyeballs.

--
Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail
When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate.