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submitted 3 weeks ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world

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[–] theherk@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is this tilt shifted? Looks unreal?

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

It's Maxar satellite imagery with a high off-nadir angle. European Space Imaging use it as an example in this article about ONA.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Very cool. Learned something new today. Thank you.

[–] tomatolung@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Really useful article. Rare to read something that actually does a decent job explaining the background from someplace wanting to sell you something.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the page. Was very interesting to read!

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago

I looked it up on google earth and the perspective is very distorted. The shot is probably 8 times as long as it is wide