Where are the people on satellite images? ?

Question

I know this might sound like a dumb question or something that I should know, but I'm clueless. Whenever I search for someone on Google Maps or Zabasearch, I'm shown a satellite image of the top of that person's house, neighborhood, and city. Also, I'm shown cars, street names, and etc. However, I don't see any humans outside. I figured, because people are almost always outside, why aren't they found in the satellite images?

Answer 1

Actually, most people are not outside. You are inside right now I would guess or are you using a laptop out by the pool?

Looking down from above, the average person is about 1 foot square. About all you could see is the top of the head and shoulders. This is a rather a small target to see from a couple of hundred miles up.

A house is a huge target and a car is pretty darn big when seen from above.

Now it might be different if we all wore red and lay down on the green grass and smiled straight up. Then we might be able to spot you!

When is the next satellite pass?

Answer 2

The people who post the images on there might delete people that are on the screen. That way no one can to figure out who they are or stock them. I don't think that I would like it if I were on there for the whole world to see.

Answer 3

The U S govenments filter them out. I was wondering about that also.

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