The National Post reports in its Friday edition UrtheCast is promising a unique summer photo-op -- a view from space of your backyard party or golf tournament. The Post's Adrian Humphreys writes that for the past four years, UrtheCast has been developing what it calls the world's first ultra-HD video feed of Earth, streamed from space in full colour.
The existing and planned camera arrays on board the Internatinal Space Station will stream images that can be used to monitor the environment, geological changes, disasters and humanitarian relief, agricultural, and reforestation progress.
Two of its cameras are already installed on the Russian module of the ISS in a deal with the Russian space agency, one shooting video, the other still photos. Another two are planned for the U.S. module in 2017, including a radar sensor that can peer through clouds.
On Thursday, UrtheCast announced a deal with the National Aeronautics & Space Administration to allow the company also to use the full data from the agency's four cameras on the ISS's European module, installed and streaming on a NASA website for the last year.
The resolution of his video cameras allows them to pick out objects as small as one metre in size.
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