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Google Maps is just free public satellite imagery. You can barely make out people (interestingly enough, I just realized most people are filtered out of the im
by juan_juarez 14y ago
Google Maps is just free public satellite imagery. You can barely make out people (interestingly enough, I just realized most people are filtered out of the images). The CIA's had birds for years that are good enough to read license plates on moving cars. I'm sure that, if anything interesting is in that desert, they knew what it was before it was even built.
- biot 14y ago> The CIA's had birds for years that are good enough to > read license plates on moving cars. That's an urban myth, assuming that by "bird" you're referring to an orbiting satellite and not terrestrial equipment like airplanes, quadcopters, and so on: http://everything2.com/title/Spy+satellites+can%2527t+read+your+license+plate http://everything2.com/title/Spy+satellites+can%2527t+read+y...
- wololo 14y agothe replies are interesting (image enhancement, dropping orbit, low angles, synthetic aperture, deformable mirrors, etc.)
- tzury 14y agoThat's correct, Just to name a few (historical) examples The SR71 and the U2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird and of curse, many types of satellites