The system has a touch-sensitive screen, making it possible to handle high-resolution digital imagery as easily as sliding a paper map across a table.

The unit also processes, exploits, and disseminates broad area, high-resolution imagery collected by the U-2 to meet combatant commander requirements.

The Urban Tactical Planner is just one of a number of military and intelligence tools that use high-resolution commercial imagery.

Resurs-DK1 is a commercial Earth observation satellite capable of transmitting high-resolution imagery (up to 0.9 m) to the ground stations as it passes overhead.

It combines text, high-resolution imagery (at 150dpi rather than the web's usual 72dpi), interactive Flash elements and video.

On September 30, 2010, most of Alaska was replaced with high-resolution imagery, and more of Hawaii was added.

Formosat-2 collected high-resolution imagery of the disintegrated ice shelf, showing the aftermath of the collapse in remarkable detail.

While common metal detectors are geophysical sensors, they are not capable of generating high-resolution imagery.

"Ikonos is the only game in town for commercial high-resolution imagery," Jeffrey T. Richelson, an expert on space reconnaissance systems, said.

"If the media wants to obtain access to high-resolution imagery of Afghanistan, it will be totally dependent on the government's willingness to release it."