Zoom in... Now ENHANCE!

We all love the movies where the satellite zooms in and in and in and then we see Jason Bourne about to take out a misguided bad guy.  Other movies like No Way Out (Kevin Costner) has a magic tape drive that can enhance the blurriest of photos.  Well the real world is one step closer to the second movie using a technique called compressed sensing.  Through the magic of math Mr. Costner would have been caught.  Wired has and excellent article at http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_algorithm. Now if they can combine the sat view with google street view and have the camera change perspectives once it reaches the ground.  That would be impressive!