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45 minutes to capture the imagery. Also, 100 acres is 0.4 km^2.

In the U.S., the big advantage over government imagery is going to be timeliness. I'm sure some people also have uses for the resolution.



I was going by this:

"The eBee has a flight time of up to 45 minutes allowing to cover areas of up to 10sqkm in a single flight." -- http://www.sensefly.com/drones/ebee.html


I suppose it depends on the resolution required. Lower resolution allows you to fly higher, cover more area per picture and thus cover larger areas faster.




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