[GH85Carrera]

Morning all. I was mean to my computer and made it works its little CPU cores and RAM hard last night. It loved it. The GIANT CPU cooler did the job and it stayed cool like me.

Back when I first got into aerial photography we were happy to get a customer wanting 1 foot (12 inches) pixel resolution. Imagine if we made a print the full size of the ground, each square foot was one square pixel. For wide areas that is great. Most satellite photography is 1 or 2 or even 10 foot photography. The USGS has 1 meter photography they pay for that is available for free.

We were thinking we were studs when we started doing 6 inch pixel photography. That is not just twice the resolution, is is a square so it is 4 times bigger files sizes and 4 times as much data. On occasion a client would have a fairly small area like a 1/4 section or smaller and we would do a 3 inch pixel. That was usually fun to look at. It made a 1 GB tiff file for just a 1/4 section.

My computer just spit out a 2 inch pixel job last night. 246 images combined to make a 1 GB file of a customers area that is a 1/4 of a 1/4 section. It is insane high resolution. Almost too high. It shows all the utility lines on poles. Those get distracting.