Posted by
Far_view on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 5:15:48 PM
I've been down in Tampa, FL for the annual ASPRS (American Society of
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) meeting. For several years I have
been co-instructor of a one day workshop on hyperspectral remote
sensing and GIS feature extraction. I was around for the first part of
the formal conference today and one of the keynote speakers was from
Microsoft's "
Virtual Earth"
project. It is a pretty ambitious project. They are collecting 15 cm
/ pixel multispectral (I presume just three or four band) data over
major cities and doing photogrammetry to get topography and also doing
"drive-by" imaging for ground scale views. The goal is to have kind of
a mix between Google's
Google Earth and
mapquest where you can zoom into a city and get a 3-D model of the city... pretty amazing stuff.