Deadly hi-def aerial photo of Ireland.

dlofnep

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Ireland.A2003004.jpg

Ideal for desktop backgrounds and what not. Tis kinda cool. I thought you'd be at least able to see dublin from it, but you can't.

Ishmael

Pretty cool alright, i can just make out the river that passes by my house

good find!!

MooShop

yeah cool pic

Chalk

i couldve sworn there were cities and roads in ireland.......

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even if this was taken a few thousand yyears ago there were definitely rivers in ireland back then.

Mossy Monk

i cant see any built up areas like Cork which has no clouds over it

monkeyfudge

dlofnep wrote:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Ireland.A2003004.jpg

Ideal for desktop backgrounds and what not. Tis kinda cool. I thought you'd be at least able to see dublin from it, but you can't.

You can just about make out Dublin. There is a sort of greyish area that is the about the right size and shape.

dlofnep

Monitor here at work is very dark so it's hard to make out, I'll check it when I go home.

rabbitinlights

It looks very dodgy to me, Its actualy the clouds, they just seem to be a wierd looking and too similar.

and the obvious missing road systems and cities.

S.

dlofnep

What, you think someone drew that? Remember, that's an area the size of Ireland. Clouds look broke up like that for a reason :P

Kermitt

Thats a genuine image, Called a False Colour Composite.. it was most likely taken from a geostationary sattelite like IKONOS or similar( used for weather patterns.). there are no urban areas as the resolution of the image is nowhere near high enough for that.
It looks nice though!
(p.s I work in a company specialsing in digital satellite imagery and mapping)

Chalk

Kermitt wrote:

Thats a genuine image, Called a False Colour Composite.. it was most likely taken from a geostationary sattelite like IKONOS or similar( used for weather patterns.). there are no urban areas as the resolution of the image is nowhere near high enough for that.
It looks nice though!
(p.s I work in a company specialsing in digital satellite imagery and mapping)

so you can see the ridges on the side of a mountain, but not the shannon?
how come theres no perspective on it either,

are you completely sure its not made with 3dsmax or something?

dlofnep

That's cool Kermitt. I rememebr I got a cd years ago in the mirror that had real high-def aerial images of the UK. I could zoom all the way into car registration plates. I know there is another one online with an image that you can zoom into from a city aerial photograph, it's pretty cool.

seamus

That's been my desktop in work for like a year now

monkeyfudge

I can see the shannon quite clearly. It's a big river of course it's about the only one that will show up. You can actually make out the Liffey to a small degree as it divides up the grey splodge that makes up Dublin.

danniemcq

yeah it does look a bit dodgy, after all where are the rain clouds??? nah but seriously it just looks way to perfect to be real.

Kermitt

Chalk wrote:

so you can see the ridges on the side of a mountain, but not the shannon?
how come theres no perspective on it either,

are you completely sure its not made with 3dsmax or something?

i could go into it.. but it took a year and a half for my degree to understand it fully... its al down to the type of sensors on board. in this case they are designed to measure topographic variations and atmospheric moisture.. for cities and the like they would need to be calibrated for small surface variations and thermal siignatures.. Hope that explains!!

Chalk

sort of get you.
but then its not a photo is it, photo being light and all that...
but it is an actual image of irelnad from space,

/off topic
so whats with all these lads that can see dublin on it,
does that bit work like a magic eye?

astec123

It is real zoom into cork and notice that the colour is a green gray around the area compared to the underlying bright green, its hard to tell but there is a difference. Also you cant see rivers well because at the harbour area in cork the Lee is a mere 30m at most from bank to bank and this image is a pesky 2400x3200pixels so the roads, railways and the rest wouldnt show up. As kermit said its all down to photo trickery but you can still about make out the major landmarks.

cashback

Yeah I can see the cities. Belfast, Dublin and Cork and if you scroll over to Scotland you can see Glasgow and Edinburgh easily enough.

Kermitt

exactly chalk... should have said that from start.. Digital image is made up from collecting reflected wavebands of light from the surface. The difference between this and a photo is that the satellite can use non visible wavelengths to create an image and enhance in.. Hence the sharpness of the image.... very lengthy process but results can be amazing.. If you like i could post some others up tonight and you'll see what i mean

full forward

Is that snow on the wicklow mountains? And look at the that gunk flowing out of the shannon! Gross.

ross_castle

http://www.comreg.ie/siteviewer/site_search.aspYou can actually read licence plates in dublin

Chalk

Kermitt wrote:

exactly chalk... should have said that from start.. Digital image is made up from collecting reflected wavebands of light from the surface. The difference between this and a photo is that the satellite can use non visible wavelengths to create an image and enhance in.. Hence the sharpness of the image.... very lengthy process but results can be amazing.. If you like i could post some others up tonight and you'll see what i mean

yeah,
id love to see some more of them, thanks

Kermitt

ok tune in later!! i'll pull some off the computer at home and put em up on this thread

rymus

if they beat what ive seen in keyhole I'll be surprised

Kermitt

HeHe slightly different industry methinks!! No organs in my line of work.. one or two d!cks but no organs!! Much respect to the medical profession

Femelade

ross_castle wrote:

http://www.comreg.ie/siteviewer/site_search.aspYou can actually read licence plates in dublin

wouldnt open for me...but i really wanna see it!!

dlofnep

http://www.comreg.ie/siteviewer/site_search.asp

Try that instead femmy.

_blank_

How does that work, all I get is a map with loads of red squares?

Femelade

dlofnep wrote:

http://www.comreg.ie/siteviewer/site_search.asp

Try that instead femmy.

nice one, thanks

dlofnep

seansouth wrote:

How does that work, all I get is a map with loads of red squares?

I guess you have to keep click the plus sign to zoom in. I dunno though, didn't check it myself. Too busy in work..

The tax man

seansouth wrote:

How does that work, all I get is a map with loads of red squares?

Yeah I zoomed in on that map and got no futher then a drawn map.
Just enter your street name on the leftside of the map then zoom in on that and you'll get a "real" image.

The tax man

ross_castle wrote:

http://www.comreg.ie/siteviewer/site_search.aspYou can actually read licence plates in dublin

Do you have bionic eyes??

You'd be doing well to see reg plates on this picture


I remember somewhere on iol.ie you could zoom in alot closer.

Guy:Incognito

Chalk wrote:

i couldve sworn there were cities and roads in ireland.......

edit/
even if this was taken a few thousand yyears ago there were definitely rivers in ireland back then.

Nah they only dug them a few years back, anyway, the cameras on satellites werent as good back then.

netwhizkid

With Google you can zoom into roof-top level but only for the USA Conurbanations :- New York, LA etc. Is their any site offering this facility for Ireland ? It would be cool to see what my neigbourhood looks like from the air.

Regards netwhizkid

danniemcq

hang on can someone please put up a pic that you can actualy see the reg plates cause i can't find any.

oh yeah i forgot to say that the google images are a year or so old so they aren't the most accurate ever

Kermitt

Here we go, as promised..
Image 1 is the Slieve Bloom mountains.. enhanced to show vegetation loss (blue)
Image 2 is an image of the Burren showing Limestone as Pink

Image 'visible range' is a true colour image of the Blessington Lakes.. you can also see Naas in the top left of the pic.

I don't have the Ones I was goin to put up of San Francisco.. but hope you like these Chalk.

WellyJ

The picture that started this thread is available from NASA's official site, probably originated there actually. So to those that doubt its authenticity im sure NASA wouldnt have it in their satellite imagery if it were fake, although with all the moon landing conspiracies you never know

rugbug86

i remember the IOL one, that was cool

rugbug86

and how do you get a picture instead of a map?

The tax man

rugbug86 wrote:

and how do you get a picture instead of a map?

Type in an address on the righthand side of the map.

Rew

Keep zooming in

rugbug86

thanks

saw my house and my place of work. pics were taken AGES ago, i work in the type of place that you'll notice from above and everything is different,and it changed about 5 or 6 years ago, maybe more!

rymus

what would you expect from ComReg? They're so behind the times they make the discovery of fire look like a mod con.

When looking at the keyhole software I found they were more up to date. My house is reletively new and it actually appeared on their pictures (albeit in the progress of being built)

Guy:Incognito

Keyhole?

Rew

rymus wrote:

what would you expect from ComReg? They're so behind the times they make the discovery of fire look like a mod con.

Thats noting to do with comred the photos are all provided by MapFlow. Same service that myhome.ie use.

rymus

my mistake.. I just like to belittle ComReg at any half decent opportunity

The tax man

Stekelly wrote:

Keyhole?

Keyhole 7 day free trail

Not bad but only covers cities and built up areas.
If you life in the country you'll just see a blur.

rymus

sorry ste, didn't spot that comment of yours there.