[talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 05:04:20 BST 2009


2009/9/14  <b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au>:
> There's always this idea too:
>
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/13/1712216/Students-Take-Pictures-From-Space-On-150-Budget?art_pos=7
>
> A balloon based imagery project would be seriously cool. It would certainly
> be useful for getting imagery of small towns, university campuses etc.

Remote control blimp would be more useful since you'd be able to
control it, and keep it below clouds, if you go at or above the cloud
level you need to do multiple passes to get round clouds obscuring the
view.

The other option would be some kind of tethered balloon.

In any case none of these options would be very viable to mass capture
suitable imagery we could trace from.

I wonder if there is any UAV blimps with solar panels?




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