satellite photos
Pictures from space
Satellite photos are images of Earth's surface captured by cameras aboard orbiting spacecraft.
They're used for weather forecasting, military surveillance, environmental monitoring, and mapping services like Google Earth.
The term applies broadly to any photography from orbit: Satellite photos showed the extent of the wildfire, The investigation relied on satellite photos of the border region.
- aerialElevated, or signal-catcher
- bird's eye viewElevated vantage point
- imageryVivid descriptive language
- orbitCurved celestial path
- NASAFederal space exploration bureau
Google Earth · zoom · high resolution · terrain · mapping · land use · surveillance · reconnaissance · secret mission · resolution · remote sensing · clouds · landmass · coastline · earth · spacecraft · lens · pixel
- Geography Resourcesmap, maps, atlas, atlases, globe
- aerial mappingphotogrammetry, remote sensing, flyover, LiDAR, flight plan
- geospatial dataLiDAR, GIS, terrain maps, elevation maps, radar images
- Geographic Mapstopographic maps, political maps, physical maps, regional maps, elevation maps
- travel photographylandmarks, monuments, landscapes, landscape shots, panoramas
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
satellite photosstreet view
Navigable ground-level photography
close-up photography · underwater photography · macro photography
satellite photosclose-ups
Shots framed very near
macro photography · portrait photography · intimate portraits
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