GoogleEarth in SecondLife

While exploring the new virtual globe that has just been created in Second Life, I have discovered Envirolink (http://www.envirolink.org/) and their Common Wealth Island

"Commonwealth Island is about building a community in Second Life focused around organizations working for social equity and environmental sustainability. Commonwealth will provide a starting place for organizations who wish to try out spreading their mission/message in Second Life without making a big financial and time commitment."

Cool ! The virtual world do care about the real world too.... 

http://envirolink.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-earth-in-second-life.html

SPOT5 imagery now available in GoogleEarth

Since the beginning of the year 2007,  SPOT5 satellite imagery is available inside GoogleEarth. From January 22th, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Luxembourg benefits from 2,50 meters resolution over all their countries including islands such as Corsica and Baleares.

The press release available from Spot Image Web Site

Before that it was only some places that would get Digital Globe or aerial imagery at a higher resolution. The rest of the country was covered with LandSat imagery at 15 m. resolution. That means that where was 1 LandSat pixel, we now have 36 SPOT5 pixels.



The city of Reims in LandSat imagery


More on how these images are created by Spot Image