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2007-01-15 Africa North

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-01-15 04:55|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 while Israel has advanced satellites in space, they do not have multi-spectrum capabilities."

How typically Arab...

Israeli sats have advanced sensors. They have sold them to countries like India.
And the next Israeli satellite (TechSAR) which will go into orbit aboard an Indian PSLV rocket is a radar imager which can see through clouds, day and night.

Posted by john 2007-01-15 06:09|| 2007-01-15 06:09|| Front Page Top

#2 I would be willing to bet Rantbourg's spy satellite data (i.e. Google Earth) has superior resolution to this Egyptian gadget.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-15 09:41|| 2007-01-15 09:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Four meter (about 13 ft) resolution on the Egyptian sat as compared to 70 cm (0.7 meter or about 2 ft) resolution on the Israeli satellite.

Multi-spectrum or not, the Egytian sat can barely spot a tank while the Israeli sat can see the front page of the newspaper you're holding (Rantburg Defender-Scimitar?).

Not a very good comparison.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-01-15 10:49|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-01-15 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 So who paid for this miracle of modern imaging technology? Did it come out of our $2 billion in aid to Egypt? Gift from the Saudis? WTF?

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-01-15 11:51|| 2007-01-15 11:51|| Front Page Top

#5 What a joke. The French SPOT satellite has a resolution of 30cm, and the imagery is available commercially. GeoNet and five other companies have satellites with equal capability, producing color imagery. The Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, and French have radarsats. There are about 70 imaging satellites in orbit around the Earth right now, and almost a third of them are commercial. I'm also sure that the Israelis are fully capable of counter-satellite capabilities, both active and passive. This is nothing more than a prestige thing. BTW, the US KH-4 satellite imagery that President Clinton declassified back in 1997 had resolution of two to three feet, and most of it was taken in the 1960's. I probably looked at 600 miles of the crap.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-01-15 12:58|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-01-15 12:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Best SPOT resolution is 2.5 m.
The French military sats will of course have much better resolution.

The Indian Cartosat-2 launched last week has a public resolution of 80 cm.

Posted by john 2007-01-15 15:40|| 2007-01-15 15:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Bet OP can watch 3D movies without the glasses.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-15 16:50|| 2007-01-15 16:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's use their satellite for target practice.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-01-15 18:48|| 2007-01-15 18:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Resolution is not everything when it comes to remote sensing. Resolution is often sacrificed for shorter return times by placing the satellite in higher orbits. The result is a satellite which can view the same place much more often with lower resolution - something that may be more desirable for a country that wants to monitor its own region frquently, rather than the entire globe infrequently. Multispectral is also good for detecting the material composition of objects - good for military monitoring.

Posted by IanFichten 2007-01-15 20:24|| 2007-01-15 20:24|| Front Page Top

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