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Interesting thought but uneducated guess. I bet IR scans could help, similar to how they are discovering ancient cities buried deep in the jungle.
by TravHatesMe 7y ago
Interesting thought but uneducated guess.
I bet IR scans could help, similar to how they are discovering ancient cities buried deep in the jungle.
- themodelplumber 7y agoSpace-based radar is also available which provides views of metal content as an intelligence product. Brighter parts of the image = more metal. I'm not sure if it's commercially available but it would sure help to find cars in shallow water...
- 7952 7y agoThere is a lot of other metal in shallow water though. Just think about rubbish, buoys, marker posts for utilities, boats, sewer outfalls, gratings etc.
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- pbhjpbhj 7y agoPresumably Google, or their contractee, are scanning with other frequency ranges (IR, UV) when they do visual photography for Google Maps. So any companies make this kind of imagery data available free; I'd be interested to see some.
- 7952 7y agoWorldview 2 has a band that is specifically intended for shallow water.
- TravHatesMe 7y agoI meant uneducated in reference to his guess of O(100). That makes no sense.