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Google announced plans to buy the satellite group Skybox Imaging for $500 million, in a move to improve mapping and other services using geospatial data. Skybox said in a blog post that the goal of the 5-year-old firm was “to revolutionize access to information about the changes happening across the surface of the Earth.” Google said the satellites will keep its maps accurate with up-to-date imagery. In December, Skybox released the first high-resolution, high-definition video of Earth taken by a commercial remote sensing satellite, with images of Tokyo, Bangkok, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Aleppo, Syria.
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