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- From: wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Wright)
- Subject: Re: KH-11 pictures -
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:49:53 GMT
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- In article <willmore.726856133@kiev.gis.iastate.edu> willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) writes:
- >From: willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore)
- >Subject: Re: KH-11 pictures -
- >Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:28:53 GMT
- >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
-
- A few years ago on a television program (NOVA, I think) I saw something
- like this. Some people at the Jet Propulion Lab took a couple of digitized
- satellite pictures, crunched them in a computer for a while, and ended up
- with a 3D model of the subject area (San Francisco, I think) in their
- computer.
-
- They could "fly" around the city (between building, etc) and view
- objects from different perspectives. I don't think the were increasing
- the resolution, but they were extracting the 3rd dimension information
- from 2D images.
-
- Ted Wright (wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov)
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