What's the fear with more accuracy?
From my (completely layman) perspective once you've got a meter or so of accuracy, you've got what you need for weapons.
What's further accuracy get you that some nations are against everyone having?
From my (completely layman) perspective once you've got a meter or so of accuracy, you've got what you need for weapons.
What's further accuracy get you that some nations are against everyone having?
With the improved positional accuracy it's a 2 meter circle vs a 1 meter circle. What tactics does a 1 meter circle enable that the 2 meter circle does not enable?
Also, DigitalGlobe only has 30 cm capability:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldView-4
Who is downsampling (DigitalGlobe/GeoEye was downsampling earlier 40 cm imagery for Google, to 50cm)?
The objection from the US amounted to the fact an early Galileo design would have reduced their ability to degrade satellite navigation in war zones. Later the design was changed, so the US can jam Galileo - which avoids the US objection, but makes Galileo less useful as a backup.
[1] http://www.trimble.com/Positioning-Services/Trimble-RTX.aspx