Satellite Picture at 11:41 am on Thursday

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From Jeff:

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Hi Everyone,

I have arranged with GeoEye for a satellite image acquisition on Sept
2 at *precisely* 11:41 am. That is NOT!!! playa time ... as in, not at
12:00, not 12:15, not "oh shit where is my watch"... at *precisely* at
11:41am. So if you want to send out a notice to any artists who want
to do a project that is captured from *space* (as in not from the
airplanes) they need to do it at *precisely* that time. I will get the
imagery roughly 24 hours later and it will be posted soon thereafter.

I will notify the artists who have already asked.

Jeff

[gonzoearth]

Do we know if it is going to be a similar spatial resolution as the
GeoEye image from 9/1/09 that they shared last year?

[Jeffrey Johnson]

This capture is from Ikonos, 1m panchromatic. Not sure what we got last year.

Im *supposed* to also get 50cm imagery from the newer satellites, but
they were not sure of the schedule yet, so will get back to me.

Jeff

[gonzoearth]

last year:
http://bme.s3.amazonaws.com/burningman_09_01_09.jpg

[Jeffrey Johnson]

Yup I have the whole image. It's probably 1m ikonos too.

[Andrew Johnstone]

So at 1M how big do people need to work to have a realistic chance of getting their  "thing" to be legible?

I think that anything needs to be at least 30M on each side and in high contrast (black or dark blue )to make a recognizable image, but if they hope to move an audience to tears... bigger. Much bigger.

How big for a plain ol' "HI MOM"?

If we give artists reasonable boundaries and expectations, they can't bitch about the results afterwards.

Andrew.
BME