Have a look at the satellite image

With the cooperation of the European Space Agency, Air France will help passengers relax and open their knowledge through pictures of the mountains, rivers, cities ... they are flying through.

Air France (France) will use satellite images provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) to build a photo program for passengers during the flight of each flight, firstly for flights from Paris to Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai and Singapore.

Satellite imagery will be provided through the Airplane Flight System (IFE) and will be integrated into a Geovision-based information screen located behind each seat on Air France's Boeing 777-300ER.

Through the Geovision system, the image will be displayed and changed correspondingly to each location on the ground that the aircraft is flying across.

Frederic Le Gall, spokesman for ESA's Earth Observation Division, said ESA has selected 250 aerial photographs of attractive locations to provide to Air France. These images are of different resolutions and are taken from many satellites, including ESA's Envisat and Proba satellites, Korea's Kompsat and Spot of the French Space Agency.

According to Christian Maquin, Project Director of Air France's Marketing Division, all of these satellite images are not real-time images. Some new photos were taken, but some photos were taken a year ago. However, Air France will easily update the image several times a year, as they update the Geovision program.

Air France said it was the first airline in the world to offer this service to its customers.

The satellite image program will help passengers relax and gain a better understanding of the Earth. In picture: Southeast Asia was taken from satellites. (Photo: community.middlebury.edu)

Quang Thinh