http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old/taxonomy/term/487/0 en http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old/content/remote-sensing-and-obama-inauguration <p>Much was made of the crowds that attended President Obama's inauguration in Washington, DC last week. </p> <p>As evidence of remote sensing's (that is, satellite image's) greater role in public consciousness, check out this image of the crowds gathered for the historic moment, shot at one-half meter resolution. (One-half, or.5, meter resolution means, more or less, that the smallest units discernible in the image are .5 x .5 meters, about the size of a person from above. The resolution is roughly equivalent on the <a href="http://fas.org/irp/imint/niirs.htm">NIIRS</a> scale, which is the military/intelligence community's rating scale for remotely sensed image interpretability.) </p> <p>Increasingly news organizations are citing remotely sensed images in their reporting. Whether this is a techno-fad or provides a legitimately new and informative perspective on events, I'd be curious to hear readers' opinions on. </p> <p><img src="http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/files/inauguration.jpg" class="center" width="400" alt="inauguration photo" /></p> <p>Image courtesy of <a href="http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/detail.aspx?iid=218&amp;gid=1">GeoEye</a> (click link for a larger resolution photo, as well as additional remotely sensed images)</p> <!--break--><!--break--> http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old/content/remote-sensing-and-obama-inauguration#comments Barack Obama Crowds Estimating history Inauguration Obama Remote Sensing Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:35:03 +0000 Nate Kreuter 347 at http://viz.dwrl.utexas.edu/old