Is a Live Satellite View of My House Possible?
Satellite imagery of your personal property is only a recent phenomenon. Being able to view aerial images of your house, or view your house from the street have only taken
off in the last few years thanks to companies such as Google and Teraserver. Recently companies have been teaming up to bring incredibly up to date images of populated areas around the globe. Computer programs such as Google Earth allow access to Google’s compilation of satellite imagery in a convenient, accessible interface. They also allow you to put other information on the view, like maps.
Viewing live images of your house, while possible, is only limited to those with clearance to do such. It is rumored that powerful governments around the world have access to powerful satellites which can provide live streaming video from outer space. These satellite feeds are very high resolution, so high in fact that you can make out people’s faces from out space in real time!
The satellite imagery that is accessible to the average citizen is not in fact, live. Aside from webcams, and other freely broadcast video transmission there is no way to view live video of any particular place on earth. The images that are accessible however are becoming gradually more updated. A few years ago the satellite images where rarely updated, and as cities and neighborhoods grew, the pictures became outdated. For instance when a street map was superimposed onto a satellite image of the corresponding location, it would become quickly out of whack when the roads were modified. As the technology and infrastructure improved, the images update more frequently. This is about as close to an actual live satellite view of your house as you can get.
I mentioned webcams earlier. There are many sites on the internet that offer free video feeds via webcam from all around the world. For instance you can get a live feed of a beach in italy, or even feeds from cruise ships out at sea. There is even a site that perpetually follows the sunrise and sunset around the world, shifting from webcam to webcam as the planet turns. Setting up a webcam for your house and streaming it to the internet for your personal viewing is not that difficult either. Granted the view will not be from the sky, but you can access a live view of your house from anywhere around the world that has an internet connection.