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Tangent question, I know of services like Planet Labs, Maxar... is the capability there now assuming you had money, where you could tag a ship from space and wa
by ge96 7mo ago
Tangent question, I know of services like Planet Labs, Maxar... is the capability there now assuming you had money, where you could tag a ship from space and watch it travel (I know there is something like ADSB for ships) but would be interesting.
- notahacker 7mo agoIt's still at the "technical challenge to fuse data from AIS [ADSB for ships, complete with spoofing and transponders being turned off] to [generally] static images from multiple different sources" stage, at least unless you've got the budget for a video satellite to stick in a geostationary-ish orbit
- ge96 7mo agoI also wasn't sure how good satellite image quality is where you can match a ship from above, maybe the pattern of the freight containers could help. And track I didn't indicate frequency, it's not per minute, but say hourly.
- sorenjan 7mo agoPlanet labs has a solution specifically for ships. https://www.planet.com/pulse/illuminate-the-dark-fleet-with-planet-maritime-domain-awareness/ https://www.planet.com/pulse/illuminate-the-dark-fleet-with-...
- ge96 7mo agoDang, that is hard to do, 4 pixels of orange to work with