Collaborate Disseminate
As anyone who’s looked at the sky just before dawn or right after dusk can confirm, for the last seventy years or so there have been all kinds of artificial …read more Continue reading Amateur Astronomer Images Spy Satellite
Although we usually imagine the conditions in Ancient Egypt to be much like the Egypt of today, back during the Holocene there was significantly more rain as a result of …read more Continue reading Rediscovering The Nile: The Ancient River That Was Once Overlooked By The Egyptian Pyramids
When it comes to hunting down military radar installations and associated hardware, we typically think of equipment that is firmly in the price bracket of nation states and their military …read more Continue reading You Can Find Military Radars On Publicly-Available Satellite Data
It would seem that for as long as there have been ships on the ocean, there’s been smuggling. The International Maritime Organisation requires ships to have AIS, the automatic identification …read more Continue reading Finding Dark Ships via Satellite
It would seem that for as long as there have been ships on the ocean, there’s been smuggling. The International Maritime Organisation requires ships to have AIS, the automatic identification …read more Continue reading Finding Dark Ships via Satellite
By now you’ve almost certainly heard about the recent release of a high-resolution satellite image showing the aftermath of Iran’s failed attempt to launch their Safir liquid fuel rocket. The geopolitical ramifications of Iran developing this type of ballistic missile technology is certainly a newsworthy story in its own right, …read more
Continue reading Watching the Watchers: The State of Space Surveillance
Synthetic-aperture radar, in which a moving radar is used to simulate a very large antenna and obtain high-resolution images, is typically not the stuff of hobbyists. Nobody told that to [Henrik Forstén], though, and so we’ve got this bicycle-mounted synthetic-aperture radar project to marvel over as a result.
Neither the …read more
Continue reading Bike-Mounted Synthetic-Aperture Radar Makes Detailed Images