TORONTO If youre planning on getting married outdoors, you will soon be able to have it pictured from space. <\/p>\n
This could happen thanks to the Vancouver-based company Urthecast (pronounced Earth-cast) that had two of its cameras installed on the International Space Station (ISS) by two Russian cosmonauts Monday morning. <\/p>\n
The companys cameras a still camera and a high-resolution video camera are set to make the unique view of Earth accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. <\/p>\n
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The camera that was made by Vancouver-based UrtheCast, was mounted on the space station on Jan. 27, by two Russian cosmonauts. It will begin to transmit images of Earth in near real-time. <\/p>\n
The video camera has a one-metre resolution that can be swivelled around and pointed at particular locations. <\/p>\n
Scott Larson, CEO of UrtheCast said that the still camera can be used for wide-area coverage. Organizations can use it for a variety of tools, including agricultural monitoring, urban planning or mapping. <\/p>\n
People take pictures of the coffee farms in South America to determine if itll be a good year for coffee or bad; is the price of coffee going to go up or down? Theyll take pictures of Walmarts parking lot to count cars in the parking lot to be able to determine same-store sales, based on how many cars are in each parking lot. So theres lots of business intelligence, lots of government-agency stuff, ministry of forestry, farming, agriculture, resource-management mapping and so forth. <\/p>\n
But the video camera can be moved around and pointed at something else with an incredible resolution of just one metre. <\/p>\n
If you imagine the space stations going over Hamilton, and one camera is pointed directly down, taking a picture of the suburbsthe other camera, we decide we want to point over downtown Toronto, Larson told Global News. Well take a 90-second video at what we call a 1-metre resolution So, cars, buses, boats, planes, groups of people youll never see the guy mowing the lawn in the backyard, but you can see a golf cart. And well take 150 of those videos, full colour, every day. <\/p>\n
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