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Old 08-22-2012, 11:03 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by panjumbie View Post
It is my understanding that a lot of the Google photography, particularly the higher resolution stuff, is actually aerial photography, shot from aircraft, and not satellite imagery.
Not Area 51, they would have been shot down

While some may be shot from aircraft, don't really know, aerial photography of large areas can be very expensive to fly and expensive to correct the scale and registration to an accurate ground grid.

Last edited by Slickcraft; 08-22-2012 at 12:17 PM. Reason: typo
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