{"id":12149,"date":"2014-01-09T23:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T05:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12149"},"modified":"2014-01-09T23:02:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T05:02:32","slug":"many-eyes-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12149","title":{"rendered":"Many eyes on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By contrast, the swarm satellites\u2019 cameras will always be on, photographing everything in their path and, owing to their numbers, will pass over the same points on Earth with a frequency of hours to a few days, depending on latitude.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest customers of conventional commercial imaging satellites are governments, in particular intelligence agencies and the military. Prices can be prohibitive for many other potential users, including researchers,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/many-eyes-on-earth-1.14475\">Many eyes on Earth : Nature News &amp; Comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because the swarms are still to be launched, scientists have yet to fully assess the quality of the imagery. But the satellites\u2019 spatial resolutions of 1\u20135\u00a0metres are much higher than those of most scientific satellites. Landsat, NASA\u2019s Earth-observation workhorse, for example, has a resolution of 15\u2013100\u00a0metres depending on the spectral frequency, with 30\u00a0metres in the visible-light range.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By contrast, the swarm satellites\u2019 cameras will always be on, photographing everything in their path and, owing to their numbers, will pass over the same points on Earth with a frequency of hours to a few days, depending on latitude. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[442,1029,772,308],"class_list":["post-12149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-model","tag-google-earth","tag-satellite","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12150,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions\/12150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}