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2005-07-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Steve 2005-07-22 10:37|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Steve--I don't think we'd normally task satellites to photograph rallies--unless we have someone like, oh, say, maybe, our President there.

I'd still take it with a big grain of salt because I wouldn't think we'd want to expose just how high-res photos our satellites can take. Who knows--maybe this "very high quality" photo was still degraded and/or cropped to conceal the true capabilities.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2005-07-22 11:04|| 2005-07-22 11:04|| Front Page Top

#2 More likely than a satellite would have been a UAV or other airplane doing recon to watch a large area around the rally.

Posted by DO 2005-07-22 11:47|| 2005-07-22 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili displayed a photo of the suspect â a young man wearing sunglasses â at a press conference on Monday. Journalists immediately noticed the very high quality of the photo. Every detail was visible, but it was shot from a strange perspective from above (experts later explained the photo had been taken from an American satellite).

Not if you can see that kind of detail. LEO sats can do maybe 1-meter resolution, max, due to the maximum size of the lens that can be carried.

As I understand it. Ahem.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-07-22 11:57|| 2005-07-22 11:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought we could read license plates? Or izzat jsut Hollywierd?

Posted by Bobby 2005-07-22 12:32|| 2005-07-22 12:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Here's what they really used, this is an advanced Predator.... remember to look up when you hear it

aqm-34l

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-22 13:05|| 2005-07-22 13:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Neighbors say his family was very poor but he had an arsenal in the basement. Just like a hillbilly that cant feed his kids but always has money for cigarettes and beer?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-07-22 14:26|| 2005-07-22 14:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Ship, that thang delivers potato salad. you baaad.

Posted by Deli 2005-07-22 19:52|| 2005-07-22 19:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Hello Deli,
you are right Deli,
itn really just a Firebee 1 of 35!

But don't it look swell Deli?
30 Missions Deli!
Maybe thisn the one that looked John McCain in the I.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-22 19:59|| 2005-07-22 19:59|| Front Page Top

#9 i ain't that old......bag

Posted by 21 century Deli 2005-07-22 20:07|| 2005-07-22 20:07|| Front Page Top

#10 "Every detail was visible, but it was shot from a strange perspective from above (experts later explained the photo had been taken from an American satellite)"

Somone has been reading too much Tom Clancy.

This was from a UAV or similar high point mounted camera. Thats pretty obvious from the photographic details and the angle.

Read up about angles, slant ranges, atmospherics and optics - you'll figure it out that this was not a satellite photo.

Occham's razor seems to be in great disuse these days.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-07-22 20:51|| 2005-07-22 20:51|| Front Page Top

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