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Ask HN: Detailed, realtime satellite imagery, to verify convoy length?
There's a convoy of trucks heading for Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. News sources say it's on the order of a thousand trucks; social media says there's over 50 000 trucks, and that it stretches on for 400km.
I was wondering if there is a way to verify either of the claims. Is there a way I can see detailed satellite imagery with images from today?
- Rebelgecko 5y agoNot quite realtime, but Planet has ~daily imagery of the world. If you give them enough money I suppose you could get closer to realtime.
- aaron695 5y ago
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- 908B64B197 5y agoSounds like traffic cameras might be easier to use. What are they protesting for?
- salamandersauce 5y agoThey're against vaccine mandates.
- Jtsummers 5y agohttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/28/why-are-anti-vaccine-canadian-truckers-converging-on-ottawa https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/28/why-are-anti-vaccin...
- Lammy 5y agoWhat an impressively biased article. Conspicuously omitting the word “mandate” from the headline despite its presence in the second paragraph, and the always popular racist-by-proximity libel. I cringe so hard when “my side” has to resort to dirty wording tricks instead of just having the better factual argument.
- alexou 5y agoThis is so true, I've been following the convoy this week. All the videos I've seen that posted by the people we're messages of love and respect. Everybody are talking about calming down and not showing any violence since they will use this against them.... Yet no violence and they still manage to make it think in people's mind. It's really a rigged world we're living in.
- armagon 5y agoWord is that the traffic cameras have recently been turned off.
- dr_kiszonka 5y agoIf they ride at night, maybe you can try finding a free light dataset on Earth Engine Data Catalog. When I checked last year, the data were pretty recent I think.