Google's skybox
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Skybox Imaging was founded in 2009 and was acquired by Google for $500 million in 2014. Skybox launched the world's smallest high resolution imaging satellite, which collects daily images and video. Some advantages of Skybox's satellites include providing up to 90 seconds of HD video at 30 frames per second for counting ships and vehicles, aiding disaster relief, and helping Google Maps stay accurate with updated imagery. However, the satellites cannot capture details as small as license plates or faces.
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Google's skybox
- 2. Introduction • Founded on 2009 by Julian Mann, Dan Berkenstock, Ching-Yu Hu, and John Fenwick. • Google bought this satellite Skybox Imaging for $500 million in cash. • Skybox launched the world’s smallest high resolution imaging satellite, which collects images and video every day.
- 3. Advantages • Skybox’s biggest USPs has been offering up to 90 seconds of HD satellite imaging video at 30 fps. • Able to count the ships, cars, shipping containers and trucks that move around on a daily basis. • Helpful in regards to natural disaster relief. • It could provide internet access to places where it was previously unavailable. • Skybox’s satellites will help to keep Google Maps accurate with up-to-date imagery. • To revolutionise access to information about the changes happening across the surface of the Earth. • Measures the fullness of oil containers.
- 4. Disadvantages • Skybox’s satellites cannot capture details as small as license plate numbers or someone’s face. • Skybox not to spy on your mailbox number.
- 5. Google’s projects • Project Loon • Driverless car • Google’s watch • Malaria Detection • Google Glass
- 6. Thank you
Editor's Notes
- #2: The deal is expected to make the search engine giant to serve as a launching pad to send its own satellite to take aerial pictures and provide online access to remote areas of the world. Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people connect with information. Google’s innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top internet property and its brand one of the most recognized in the world. Skybox Imaging is a private company providing commercial high-resolution satellite imagery, high-definition video and analytics services. The Mountain View, California-based company was founded in 2009 by Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwick, and Ching-Yu Hu.[1] Skybox was named no. 1 on Inc. magazine's 25 Most Audacious Companies in 2014.[2] The resolution of the company’s images and videos is high enough to observe objects that impact the global economy like terrain, cars and shipping containers. Skybox says its satellites can capture video clips lasting up to 90 seconds at 30 frames per second.[3] The high-definition satellite video from Skybox satellites “could help us understand our world better by analyzing movement of goods and people, providing visual data about supply chains, shipping, industrial plant activity, and even humanitarian relief efforts.”[3] The company’s goal is to be able to provide high-resolution satellite imagery of any place on Earth multiple times a day.[4] Skybox has plans to “change the nature” of the satellite industry by building satellites with “off-the-shelf” electronics that cost under $50 million.[
- #4: frames per second (and typically written in lower case), a measure of how much information is used to store and display motion video. The term applies equally to film video and digital video. Each frame is a still image; displaying frames in quick succession creates the illusion of motion. The more frames per second (fps), the smoother the motion appears.
- #5: proven through social media’s mass archive of photos and information Skybox’s satellites deliver high-res imagery "better than 1-meter resolution,” said Sara Blask, a company spokesperson. “Which means you can clearly discern features such as the size of car windshields, road markings and car colors.”
- #6: Project Loon-using weather balloons to deliver internet connections in remote locations Titan Aerospace-which builds high-altitude, solar-powered drones that can stay aloft for years.