Soon enough available for commercial use as well
Modern military intelligence satellites have a resolution of 5-10cm per pixel (2-4 inches), so most things are big enough that you can see them from space. "Wow, that's a big tomato" "Yep, it's so big that you can see it from space"
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It's so big the military is watching it from space and can't unsee it
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i'm gonna expose myself on my rooftop, hopefully some officer will appreciate it
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Are there any declassified full resolution/quality examples of what that imagery looks like? Must be wild. I've only seen the very downscaled KH-11 ones
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Yes, there is, courtesy of the former president. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/05/758038714/can-president-trump-really-tweet-a-highly-classified-satellite-photo-yep-he-can … Looks similar to what you'd normally get from a surveillance aircraft
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iep, for our old Sat4Lives project
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Probably a huge difference in postprocess algorithms and software alone. Image processing has progressed so much.
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what's the field of view with such resolution? Gigapixel cameras (hundreds of sensors grouped together as one giant camera) is the only solution I know of to avoid sacrificing the field of view for high-res.
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Also, I wonder as to the lens diameter for these satellites. With large distances, large lens diameter is the only way to escape loss of resolution to diffraction of light.
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