Not only did Microsoft have to take and process a lot of images, it also had to correct for cloud cover, snow, and other impediments to a ground view.
On Monday Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, told a veterans group in San Antonio that America had enough troops currently on the ground in the view of his military advisers.
The Fly Delta app for iPad features a "Glass Bottom Jet, " through which customers will have the ability to view the ground below in a unique way that includes maps, social networks and internet content while connected to the Internet on any of Delta's more than 800 Wi-Fi-equipped aircraft.
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Enhanced-vision technology relies on infrared to produce a real-time view of the ground, sensitive enough to pick up a deer or a person from 1, 380 feet up in foggy conditions.
It has since emerged that people at Liverpool did have serious concerns about the ground, but my own view at the time was that if they had agreed to play the European Cup Final there it must be fine.
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That, at least, was the conventional consensus view of the centre ground of British politics.
Markets have gained ground in recent sessions on the view that the European Central Bank will step in with bond-buying purchases of hard-hit countries like Spain based on the outcome of the last central-bank meeting.
Even if the weather's cloudy on the ground, there will be an unobstructed view once the plane climbs above the clouds.
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Finally, Optimism carries us through the inevitable rejections of forging new ground and helps us take the longer view.
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The ITU has repeatedly said that there must be common ground, rather than just a majority view, before changes are introduced to the treaty.
The two sides are finding common ground in some instances, as media companies have come to view Apple as a partner they have to work with to expand their digital businesses.
Photos are enlarged and on tables beneath giant magnifying glasses, allowing the visitor to have that same birds' eye view of Scotland, with their feet firmly on the ground.
Mr Beggs said that, on any realistic view, the policing provided in the extended area around the ground was exclusively for the benefit or protection of the club and its customers, both home and away supporters.
The 59 aircraft run by Emirates have all had two cameras on board since 1999 - one looking forward from the view of the pilot and the other looking straight down to the ground.
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And from that point of view, that initiative to share and discuss and dialogue and reach common ground with the president of the United States is something that I greatly appreciate.
But now, following the restoration, then closure due to floods and reopening earlier this year of the below ground hypogeum and the very top tier of the arena, visitors can get the view from a totally different perspective and without the crowds.
Since 2008, the firm's Ground Truth project has mashed together licensed data with information gathered by its own fleet of Street View cars and bicycles.
Another way to view the eclipse is by using binoculars and telescopes to project an image of it on the ground, Newmark said.
The extra weight and damaged engine meant he was forced to fly for 3 miles (4.8km) at around 20 ft (6m) from the ground, rather than the usual 50 ft (15m), creating a dust cloud which obscured his view.
Campus Pride says that after Windmeyer and Cathy began to discuss their beliefs and points of view, it suspended a national college campaign against the restaurant in an "effort to find common ground" around the values of respect and dignity Chick fil-A published on its website.
As she learned early, to solve problems when faced with stubbornly opposing points of view and much on the line, you have to give and take and work your way to common ground.
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But there was perhaps no clearer illustration of the disconnect between how emergency officials view the situation at a distance, and how it is viewed by those actually living it on the ground, than Brown's comments to CNN's Wolf Blitzer Thursday evening about the evacuation of hospitals in the city.
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