Autometric Inc. was a company spun out of Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

 to work with early satellite imagery

Satellite imagery

Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made by means of artificial satellites.- History :The first images from space were taken on sub-orbital flights. The U.S-launched V-2 flight on October 24, 1946 took one image every 1.5 seconds...

. The company created image analysis

Image analysis

Image analysis is the extraction of meaningful information from images; mainly from digital images by means of digital image processing techniques...

 products for representing imagery on the earth, cataloging, and image augmentation. This company was purchase by Boeing Inc. at the end of 2000. Many of the engineering working on the earth imagery product, Edge Development Option, went to work for Keyhole, Inc. helping to create what is now Google Earth

Google Earth

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency funded company acquired by Google in 2004 . It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite...

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