Aerial View Maps

Real Time Satellite Images, Where I can Find Them?

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1. Hi. Usually at a military base.
2. NASA has a web site , u can go to and get satellite image .That is only live for weather forcast. Again google earth is a program u can see satellite image too. With google earth you can see the satellite image of your own house too.
3. If you are talking about weather satellites, try here: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/ If you are talking about high-resolution images (where you can see individual houses, cars, etc.), such images are not broadcast in real time. Even if they were, the only satellites high enough to see a broad picture of (say) the U.S., are too high to capture the U.S. in high resolution. The stuff you see on "24" is pure fiction. The pictures you see on (for example) Google Maps or Google Earth, are typically a few months to a few years old.
4. you cannot. its way TOO much information to process to achieve real time global coverage, esp at high resolution. you'd need something like 10,000 satellites taking pictures and a quantum computer to stitch the pics together to have REAL TIME images NASA World Wind http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ is the closest you can get...... much like google earth, but they've added updated cloud coverage of the world (but not updated surface) notice I never said real time though. its updated and updated often. like every hour or so. this site is cool. http://www.flashearth.com/ its a flash version of these earth programs, BUT the cool thing is you can switch from different companies that have organized these pics. each different set was taken at different times. I can cycle through them and watch the downtown area go through construction phases over time.
5. It's perfectly possible to receive images from the weather satellites as they go over, so you can see your area from space. The low-resolution APT data are particularly easy to receive: I use a home-made antenna and preamp, a modified Radio Shack scanner, then feed the data in to my computer through the sound card and demodulate the signal with DSP software I wrote myself. The pictures are really neat. The high-resolution HRPT data are a bigger challenge, one I haven't tried yet. And there's new digital stuff on the horizon.