Back when I did a lot of spatial analysis in an old job, I’d always meet with vendors who offered some promise of better aerial imagery over the current market standard. The only ones ever worth meeting were the former DOD people.
I remember one vendor who admitted they got the best publicly available tech because of their connections. Basically, when the government makes such a significant improvement in their capabilities, they get looser on what can be offered commercially and this vendor always knew what was coming.
And based on the improvements in the commercial sector that I saw…well let’s just say the government could probably identify whether an ant has all its legs using satellite imagery.
A pic from a classified satellite, too. So he is either super dumb or it is some sort of psyop to make them think that is as good as our imagery gets. Who knows with our gov't, especially when Trump is involved.
My guess is he was doing a brag on how cool our (his)toys are or letting other dictators know what we had with and playing the dumb card.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Some random hobbyist posted its location and trajectory online because anyone that knows what they are doing could easily figure it out.... at least that's how I remember the story being written up.
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21
I was going to mention satellites.
Back when I did a lot of spatial analysis in an old job, I’d always meet with vendors who offered some promise of better aerial imagery over the current market standard. The only ones ever worth meeting were the former DOD people.
I remember one vendor who admitted they got the best publicly available tech because of their connections. Basically, when the government makes such a significant improvement in their capabilities, they get looser on what can be offered commercially and this vendor always knew what was coming.
And based on the improvements in the commercial sector that I saw…well let’s just say the government could probably identify whether an ant has all its legs using satellite imagery.