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> Satellite imagery can't achieve resolutions needed to identify people. It is physically impossible. Are you sure? They were talking about commercial satell
by autoexec 4y ago
> Satellite imagery can't achieve resolutions needed to identify people. It is physically impossible.
Are you sure?
They were talking about commercial satellites seeing dinner plates in back in 2014 (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/latest-commercial-satellite-can-see-dinner-plate-space-1-180952357/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/latest-commercial-...) and seeing cell phones from space in 2015 (https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-image-resolution-keeps-improving-2015-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-image-resolution-k...) and AI could help turn even blurry faces into clear images (https://trinity.duke.edu/news/artificial-intelligence-makes-blurry-faces-look-more-60-times-sharper https://trinity.duke.edu/news/artificial-intelligence-makes-...)
I suspect that if the ability to identify people doesn't already exist in military satellites, it will very very soon.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y ago25cm is the allowed limit for commercial satellites. That isn't enough to identify anyone. The atmosphere limits the best possible resolution to not significantly better. Imaging off axis through a longer column of air makes everything worse.