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On the way to Half Moon Bay, I was tooling around with the satellite view, and noticed a large plane in motion.
The imager in this sat-cam uses a linear-CCD in push broom mode (so it has a separate 1D sensor for each color, relying on the precise orbital scanning speed like a scanner) rather than the 2D image sensor in most digital cameras. So the R, G and B sensors are sampling any particular spot at a slightly different time. For most things this doesn’t matter, but for fast moving things, you get a spectral blur…
It’s almost a reverse-doppler shift to hyperspectral aerospace… =) Close-up view below…
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