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Low-Cost Micro Satellites are Spawning a Global Surveillance Arms Race

June 25th, 2017
Categories: News

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2017/06/global-surveillance-arms-race-military-micro-satellites.html

31-centimeter resolution images allow viewers to discern the windshield of a car and the direction the car is facing, offers short-wave infrared resolution that sees through dust, smog and smoke as well as things on Earth invisible to the naked eye. DigitalGlobe told The Denver Post last month that its new sensors allow them to see minerals, identify tree and plant species and gather soil composition. When analyzed, this information can decipher what’s beneath the surface — insight that can then be sold to industries including mining or oil and gas exploration. With a constellation of 149 microsatellites, Planet can cover a lot more territory than any single high-end satellite, so almost anywhere in the world you look, Planet can find a recent picture of it. With new imagery coming in every day, you can automate a search for changes at various locations. That means you can detect when a military begins to operate in a given area, and perhaps even deduce what kind of equipment they’re using at exponentially less cost than it would take to have run the same operation a decade ago.

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