Just noticed this on the front page of Wikipedia: "Did you know...
...that in 2009 two MIT students made a vehicle to take pictures of the Earth from 93,000 feet (28,000 m) for US$148?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Icarus PaulY On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Joe Richards <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Where did this idea go in the end? It seems the talk about it petered-out, or > was some action agreed (along with who was going to undertake it)? > > > > Given the US have forgotten to keep the GPS system up to date, maybe > we need a few satelites of our own to replace it... Or maybe we can > use Galileo once its up instead..... > > This was more about high-resolution aerial photography suitable for deriving > traces. > > As for geopositioning satellites, I doubt the US military-industrial complex > (or its adherents in places like Europe) will allow such a key technology to > fall into real disrepair. Plus with future civilian receivers combining > signals from Galileo and GPS, alongside radio signals, the future is actually > looking brighter than ever... > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Tel: +44(0) 7814 517 807 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
