Re: Live commercial satellite video imageary?

From: Old Physics (skearney7_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: 1 Aug 2004 12:59:09 -0700

digicross@hotmail.com (EAC) wrote in message news:<6482ad0.0407312258.1b8be694@posting.google.com>...
> Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<410969b0$0$96019$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>...
> > > Is there such a thing?
> > > Idly wondering.
>
> skearney7@earthlink.net (Old Physics) wrote in message news:<13fd3446.0407292059.5f3e0772@posting.google.com>...
> > There are sites that have pictures taken from geosychronys orbit,
> > updated every twenty minutes.
>
> As I recall, the images are usually an hour old, it's live as in
> 'live' in 'real-time', but don't expect what you see is what currently
> happening. Though an update for each around half an hour is not what
> some would call as 'video', a webcam style viewing maybe, but
> definetly not a 'video'.
>
> I don't know on why the images are usually an hour old, either that it
> took around one hour for the satellite to gather all of those images,
> or they need to 'refine' the images so that it will be fit for public
> viewing.
>
> > Unless your interested in cloud cover
> > they're pretty bland.
>
> Nah... Some of these images are quite interesting.
>
> If you look at the visual spectrum images, you will see on how the
> sunlight moves, and how night turned into day and then into night
> again.
>
> You will also able to see on how the sun's reflection move across the
> glove
>
> The cloud images gets interesting when there's a storm or hurricane
> that is currently happening.
>
> While it's kinda confusing to get excited over events that probably
> will make people miserable, but this is the kind of things that made
> people watched stuff like "The Day After Tomorrow".
>
> > If there was such a thing that offered a closer
> > view, I suspect it would be promoted.
>
> Nah... G.S.O. view is quite interesting. Besides, with all of those
> cloud covers around Earth, it will be quite hard to get a good a look
> at one particular place. Satellite photography for example can took
> weeks to image a certain a place.
>
> > Ought to try to get NASA interested....good publicity= increased
> > funding.
>
> Well.. Good publicity has nothing to do with funding. How amount much
> fund that N.A.S.A. gets depends on how much the funder is willing to
> give, even if N.A.S.A. screws up real good and gets bad publicity, if
> the one who funds N.A.S.A. still want to fund N.A.S.A. and even raised
> the funding, there's nothing more to say.
>
> The opposite can also be true, even if N.A.S.A. done real good and
> gets good publicity, if the funder wanted to decrease the funding and
> even stop it altogether, there's nothing more to say.

    I read that the mars rover site recieved eight billion hits. If
the public is interested and supportive, that usually works its way
back to congress. It would be good publicity for nasa and an
educational resource.
>
> > So long as this market is open, I agree with you that it
> > might make a profit ($30M/year).
>
> I don't know about making a profit, considering the cost to maintain a
> satellite is quite high, not to mention designing, making, and
> launching it.
>
> High revenue probably will come, but profit?

    It would be interesting to find out how ikonos and quickbird are
doing. A free service with advertising might be too speculative.
Being able to see a cloud from below, maybe taking a picture, then
seeing it from above as part of a larger weather system, would be a
trip.

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