Full color HD movie which fixed point camera image of the world's first space station "ISS" is released on the net

He jumps the height of 400 km (400,000 meters) of the earth and goes round the earth in 90 minutesInternational Space StationProcessing based on the image of the high-definition camera mounted on the ISS, a full-color HD movie like a picture of the landscape from just above the city is to be made public. Its resolution is very fine, about 1 meter above the ground level, and the appearance of the building and the way the car is running is captured as a clearer picture.

Urthe Cast Releases The World's First Full-Color HD Videos Of Earth
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These are the first full-color HD videos of earth from the International Space Station - Quartz
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Published this video is a Canadian company that delivers images from the ISS in real time "UrthecastIt is (earth cast). The company has a Russian service module "ISS connected to it"ZvezdaWe are delivering images from the camera mounted on the camera.


Here is a movie that shows the state of London and England with such Urthecast camera. The cars running on the road and the ship going and leaving the Thames river are caught.

London, UK on Vimeo


The place is the center of England, London. In addition, the arrow of "N" pointing north is turning slowly because of the direction of production, so it does not seem to point in the exact direction. The direction on the left side of the screen is about north direction.


The average speed of a car running on a road is 33 km / h. The characters and figures on the movie are processed to move according to the object of the moving screen.


On the left side of the screenTrafalgar SquareIt is reflected. On May 27, 2015 when the picture was taken,Protest protest against Queen Elizabeth's conservative policy approvalIt was done.


And on the left side of the screen is the clock tower which is one of the buildings symbolizing London "Big BenThe figure of.


On the west side of Big Ben, statues of the former British Prime Minister and Gandhi are builtParliament · square.


Along the River Thames, "Westminster · Peer" which is a boarding point for a cruise ship. It seems that the boats going on are 9 to 10 knots.


And, on the other side of the River Thames, the Ferris wheel of the new London attraction built in 1999London EyeIt is also visible.


It is a movie by UrtheCast who was able to see the sights of London like this, but its amazing resolution is amazing resolution. The state of the surface seen by the camera attached to the ISS is resolution of about 1 meter in resolution, and its beauty is transmitted when looking at the shape of the building and the state of the car running on the ground.

Furthermore, it is the following movie that shows the state of Boston in the United States that makes me feel the greatness of processing by UrtheCast.

Boston, U.S.A. on Vimeo


Not to mention the state of the car that stirs up the ground, not to mention the state of the skyscraper that appears on the right of the screen in this movie. At the beginning of the movie, the building groups that appeared like this, in the second half ... ...


It changed to an angle from oblique like this. In other words, this means that when the ISS moves at an ultrahigh speed of about 7.7 km / sec, the viewing point moves and the angle of viewing the building changes greatly.


Because it is hard to understand with still images, I tried to make GIF animation. Since the building group is of course stationary, if you think that the viewpoint changes due to the high speed movement of the camera, you will understand the speed feeling somewhat. (Click to play: 370 kb)


The distance the ISS travels in 47 seconds, which is the length of the movie, is about 362 km. Taking this in Japan's land, it is like keeping Mt. Fuji constantly in the center of the screen while moving from Chiba Prefecture's Inubosaki to Nagoya City in 47 seconds. The camera is mounted on a biaxially controlled platform (machine), and seems to be shooting with the "pointing function" which adjusts the direction while flying at high speed and constantly stares at a single point.


And the third movie captured Spain · Barcelona from the sky. If you look carefully, you can see that the appearance of the oil tank and the dense building on the right of the screen changes gradually.

Barcelona, ​​Spain on Vimeo


In Urthecast, we plan to deploy multiple services on this video base, anyone can freely offer the API, purchase past images from the company's database, and obtain images of the desired place for a fee It is planned to become like. Urthecast's CEO Scott Larsen says he expects sales from this new service by the end of July.

By using this service, we can expect many merits such as easy access to useful information in fields such as large-scale agriculture and resource industry that manage large farmland. In addition, the company has a partnership with the United Nations and it seems that it is supposed to provide data for humanitarian problems such as Syrian food problems.

On the other hand, it can easily be imagined that a voice worried about the privacy problem caused by taking a picture with a high-performance camera from far above the sky can be easily imagined, but at the company, "The resolution of 1 meter recognizes the face of an individual I can not identify the number plate of a car. "