In the nine months that Visual Forensics has operated, they ve worked on more than a dozen cases. With the advent of higher resolution imagery, we ll use it all the time. The images he used from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency had a resolution of 10 meters. Ikonos will have a one-meter resolution. Satellite imagery is needed, he says, because aerial representations often can t capture a large enough area.
Satellites also help correct errors due to the curvature of the Earth.
But the two work well together, and that s how the firm created their images for the defense of the Marine pilot. Aerial shots were laid over the broader landscape of satellite shots.