{"id":99660,"date":"2019-12-12T07:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/china-shows-off-its-newest-satellites-high-resolution-3d-imagery"},"modified":"2019-12-12T07:23:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:23:17","slug":"china-shows-off-its-newest-satellites-high-resolution-3d-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/china-shows-off-its-newest-satellites-high-resolution-3d-imagery","title":{"rendered":"China shows off its newest satellite\u2019s high-resolution 3D imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-shows-off-its-newest-satellites-high-resolution-3d-imagery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China launched the Gaofen-7 imaging satellite in November, and the country has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsa.gov.cn\/n6758823\/n6758838\/c6808401\/content.html\">just shared the first of its high-resolution, 3D shots<\/a>. The satellite is sensitive enough to height that it should be able to spot a single person from 500 kilometers up.<\/p>\n<p>Gaofen-7 is the latest in a planned series of 14 satellites intended to overhaul China\u2019s orbital imaging capabilities. Companies like Planet are lofting hundreds of satellites to provide terrestrial businesses with up-to-date imagery, so it\u2019s natural that China, among other countries, would want to have their own.<\/p>\n<p>Already the Gaofen project has led to a huge reduction in reliance on foreign sources for this critical data, which as frictions in other areas of technology have shown, may not always be possible to rely on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China launched the Gaofen-7 imaging satellite in November, and the country has just shared the first of its high-resolution, 3D shots. The satellite is sensitive enough to height that it should be able to spot a single person from 500 kilometers up. Gaofen-7 is the latest in a planned series of 14 satellites intended to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}