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that's awesome.. I thought Army bases are masked on maps.
There's really no point. A few high sensitivity assets are lower resolution, but any state actor that wants very high resolution shots of military facilities already has it and on a quicker update cadence than google maps allows.
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Do they actually use satellites for their "satellite" view? I always assumed that it was done by aircraft.
Flying a plane around the planet sounds a lot more expensive financially and thermodynamically than just beaming down images from an object constantly falling into the views you want to see.
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Thank you. I was wondering where that was. Now, can someone calculate the plane's altitude?
The shadow is about 2500 feet away. Judging from nearby houses the sun is probably about 15 degrees SouthEast of noon. 2500 ft * sin( 15 ) = 650 ft Someone should double-check my geometry though.
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Shouldn't military bases be blurred out on Google Maps?
Military adversaries have plenty of sources of their own imagery, and the commercial imagery industry is large and international. It's just not a tractable problem to try to keep people from obtaining good aerial imagery of military installations, and it's become fairly rare for anyone to try. We know that various military organizations have taken active measures to prevent imaging of sensitive activity (e.g. returni…
I suppose the chances of that happening in a remote part of the United States is much smaller but that with the resources the U.S Department of Defence have, I would have thought that they would take every precaution.
Edit: It appears it's no longer done in Northern Ireland.
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Do they actually use satellites for their "satellite" view? I always assumed that it was done by aircraft.
Flying a plane around the planet sounds a lot more expensive financially and thermodynamically than just beaming down images from an object constantly falling into the views you want to see.
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“Rather than taking a photograph, satellite sensors record electromagnetic radiation in the red, blue, green, and high-resolution panchromatic (black-and-white) bands (as well as several not visible to the human eye, as this Mapbox[2] post helpfully explains). When these bands are combined to produce a visible image, fast-moving objects – like planes in flight – don’t quite match up, producing the rainbow effect. [2]…
> Rather than taking a photograph, satellite sensors record electromagnetic radiation in the red, blue, green, and high-resolution panchromatic (black-and-white) bands (as well as several not visible to the human eye, as this Mapbox[2] post helpfully explains). When these bands are combined to produce a visible image That's the same as taking a (normal, digital) photograph (sans additional non-rgb layers), just expla…
Bit of an aside but I like that the B-2 Spirit has different "Spirit of..." for each aircraft. There are Spirit of New York, Spirit of Ohio, etc. [1] Also if you're ever in Ohio and you're an aviation or engineering geek, or have kids, or are looking for something to do the USAF Museum is pretty cool! [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-2_Spirit [2] https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
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The shadow is about 2500 feet away. Judging from nearby houses the sun is probably about 15 degrees SouthEast of noon. 2500 ft * sin( 15 ) = 650 ft Someone should double-check my geometry though.
I think you need to divide by tan(15) instead, which would give 9330 ft.
https://i.imgur.com/HWA1iZu.png
Edit: nope you're totally right. Brain fart. It's toa, not soa.
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Yes, nice comment. I remember being part of the staff of NATO's only MIG squadron during military service. People considered a MIG within NATO a sensation, while I was simply bored. I saw them every day in droves. ;)
Poland still operates MIG-29s, as well as extremely outdated Su-22. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Air_Force#Current_inven...
It is widely rumored that certain spare parts for NATO MiG-29s are actually made in US, from sources initially supporting the Adversary training missions of the 57th Wing Nellis AFB and US Navy Adversary training missions, including TOPGUN department. This is primarily for the MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-2...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57th_Wing
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Aviation_Warfighting_Dev...
