garrettmaster1 Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 Ok, I know that most of the pictures of land are from planes about 20,000 feet above the surface, but isnt there some form of satelite pictures available? or is that just for the government. -I ask this question out of the stupidity of myself. Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 If you do a web search you will find some, but I don't think you will find images for any site you want unless you are willing to pay for them. I could be wrong, but this has been what I found so far. Quote Link to comment
dsandbro Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 Search for Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles or Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQ). Try the geography department of your local university. Look for GIS or Geographic Information Systems data. Microsoft use to have a set of images on their corporate website. Don't know if they still do. These are aerial photos optically corrected to remove distortion. Quote Link to comment
+Jennifer&Dean Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 Some fairly nice images, B&W, at http://geoengine.nima.mil/ just zoom into the USA (or other country, it might work), click on the Nima coverages tab, turn on the DOI 10m, update the map, and hopefully your area will be marked as covered. If they are, zoom in until you are where you wish to see. You can also enter some coordinates. When you are ready, click the view tab, set the size you want, and take a look. the picture has coordinates all the way around it. I save the views, print them, and take them with me into the Bitterroots when exploring. Note: the pics are older, but still useful. Quote Link to comment
+GoldKey Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 Try www.lostoutdoors.com "We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. We are the Borg." Quote Link to comment
+Ttepee Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 Give this a try http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ Quote Link to comment
+GeoCraig Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Try USAPhotoMaps at http://www.jdmcox.com/ It is a great program. Quote Link to comment
+parkrrrr Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 The "other" Terraserver at http://www.terraserver.com has SPIN-2 satellite imagery for some areas, but it's rather old. The images for my area - which is on the edge of a pass, so I'm lucky there are any images at all - are so old that the neighborhood I live in is not on them at all. That means they're at least ten years old (they don't supply an actual date, or indeed any useful metadata.) Also, they seem to be unavailable below an 8m/pixel resolution (they claim a 2m/pixel resolution, but apparently you have to pay for that privilege) whereas the NAPP/DOQQ aerial photos from MSN Terraserver are good to 1m/pixel and my area was last photographed in 1998. Quote Link to comment
dogsoldier Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/default.htm Quote Link to comment
Is and Val Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Look no further: http://www.earthviewer.com/ The best $80 I have ever spent on software. It's amazing and the photos I get from it are unreal. - Is and Val Our Geocache Discoveries Quote Link to comment
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