MetaFilter posts tagged with satelliteimagery and satellite

The odd, the unusual, the unbelievable

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:08:34 -0800

Fighter jets, overturned tractor trailers, WW II bombers, cars parked on walls, and more of The Strangest Sights in Google Earth

Sea bottom, sea bottom, talk about mudtrails, China's got 'em.

homunculus — Sat, 12 May 2007 09:17:04 -0800

Satellite images reveal shrimp trawlers' turbulent trails. Vessels turn firm sea bottoms into ooze, destroying habitats. [Via Gristmill.]

Keeping the doctor away, Redmond style

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:13:49 -0800

Microsoft wipes Apple from the face of the Earth. Virtual Earth, that is. A search for "1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA" renders only an empty field and some sort of barn. This is what it really looks like. Finding that other microcomputer company is obviously not a problem. Microsoft blames old photographs (from 1991) for the omission, but copyright notices on the images go only as far back as last year.

The eye in the sky

OpinioNate — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:13:54 -0800

Before, during and after. DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite imaged the coast of Sri Lanka at precisely the time the tidal wave hit the beaches. It was pure coincidence.