We're getting an inkling of what Google plans to do with its $500 million purchase of Skybox Imaging: By 2016, Google expects to take high-resolution images of the entire globe two times a day using six satellites at a level of detail that was illegal to sell commercially until last week, according to the Wall Street Journal. Two years after that, its full fleet of 24 satellites will hit the skies, capturing images of the Earth three times a day at a resolution that will enable real-time video…
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