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- From: willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore)
- Subject: Re: KH-11 pictures -
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:28:53 GMT
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- lrk@k5qwb.lonestar.org (Mr. Lyn R. Kennedy) writes:
-
- >It seems it would be more feasable to take several pictures by the same
- >satellite at slightly different locations and combine them
- >electronically. I'm not sure I understand the limits of this but I've
- >been led to beleive that it works. A similar method is being used with
- >radio-telescopes, recording the information simultaneously at several
- >sites and then combining the data to get better resolution.
-
- There are a few differences. The wavelength of the radio waves in
- question are much longer than the light waves. Therefore, the precision
- with which the image receivers must be places is more stringent for the
- optical methods. It's just not too easy. I'm not saying that it
- can't or isn't being done. It's just difficult to accomplish.
-
- --David Willmore
- willmore@iastate.edu
-