![]() Larson said the UrtheCast imagery will be useful for monitoring crop growth and disease, water resources and the rate and scale of deforestation. NASA spokesman Joshua Byerly says the footage is typically of the ISS laboratories in the day, and outside the station in standard definition when the crew goes to sleep. The American space agency NASA provides real-time video from the space station, except when it’s out of communication. It declined to comment on the resolution but points out that it upgraded its service in June. Google currently provides similar quality still images for some parts of the world which are made up from satellite pictures and aerial photography. UrtheCast says the video will be available between 30 minutes and two hours after shooting and the high quality footage will have a resolution down to a meter. A scientist from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory works on the high resolution video camera.
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