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SEATTLE - Satellite photos are a staple of TV weathercasts. But most of the time, what you're seeing is not simply a photograph from space. Otherwise, you'd only be able to see the clouds during the daylight hours.
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The partners behind TerraServer say they came under no government pressure to block out the images, which come from a USGS aerial survey as well as Russian satellite photos. The software is set up to block access from nations such as Iraq, Cuba or North Korea, but Pike said "I don't know that it's going to do any good. You're going to block out the North Korea domain, but there's no way you're going to block out North Koreans living in Japan," Pike said.
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Criticism of Clinton administration policy toward Pyongyang, particularly from members of Congress, grew dramatically last summer after satellite photos showed a huge underground construction site in North Korea that many analysts concluded was being used to hide nuclear weapons. After months of negotiations, North Korea agreed to allow U.S. officials to inspect the site. That was done last week by a team of 14 specialists, but their findings have not been made publ
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Free high resolution Before and after Satellite and Aerial photos of New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi, Biloxi and other regions devastated by Hurricane Katrina. These photos can help you assess the damage to your property. Photos are as recent as August and September 2005.
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Satellite photos with resolutions below a meter allow people to see cars or recognize individual homes. Military planners can use coordinates from such maps to calibrate satellite-guided weapons to destroy individual buildings.
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Model Railroader had the web sites for satellite photos. The main Microsoft site is: http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/ Click on the map and follow the usual process *************** If you want to see a quick result cut and paste the following URL into your web browser. It results in the Brisbane suburbs with the Tennyson / Moolabin freight yards and Brisbane fruit markets in top left area, Clapham standard gauge yards [or where they were!] east of that and follow the rails south east under the Ipswich Rd and Beaudesert Rd overpasses to locate the site of the Comeng works at Rocklea. English Electric was nearby. Salisbury Station is just south of there. The loop road in the bush area on eastern side of photo is Griffith University.
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