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On Thu 28 Apr 2005 08:55:52p, beerbarrel wrote in
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On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:48:45 GMT, "FDR"
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"beerbarrel" wrote in message
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Listening to the radio and heard new reports on the Italian incident.
It seems that the whole event was caught by satellite and the car that
was carrying the reporter was traveling in excess of 60 mph.

Just how was it captured by satellite?



Beats me...I'm just the messenger. I would doubt that they would
release that info anyway.

The satellite has a camera that can image a *large* chunk of geography at
one time at something less than 1-meter resolution. The satellite also
date/time-stamps any images it may happen to acquire. What are the odds
there are satellites targeting and imaging Iraq while U.S. troops are in
harms way over there? If those odds are acceptable, what are the odds that
while imaging something else entirely different, the camera footprint just
happened to cover the area of the roadblock (and quite a few other grid-
squares as well)?

Multiple images of a given area taken at slightly different times will
reveal a bit of useful info regarding objects in motion.

I would imagine that fate smiled and (unexpectedly) a sufficient number of
frames captured some aspect of the roadblock incident. At least enough to
cast doubt on the reporter's version of events. Even without satellite
imagery, it is my understanding that her story was unravelling a bit all
on
it's own...

Unless the imagery was real time, I doubt there was such evidence. And if
the imagerey was still pictures, we are talking about being able to measure
things at fractions of a second. I'd really like to know how such satellite
imagery was able to determine this. I mean, I could see a drone figuring
this out, but a sattelite?


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