New commercial satellite surveillance technology

[bilby]

https://satellogic.com/news/press-r...ly-global-monitoring-at-one-meter-resolution/

Satellogic is a private company and has just announced daily one-metre resolution global satellite imagery from its 'Merlin' constellation.

That's pretty scary stuff, and was previously only available to military intelligence (whose actual capabilities are, of course, classified).

If you want to do anything in secret, do it under a roof.

 

[Shadowy Man]

https://satellogic.com/news/press-r...ly-global-monitoring-at-one-meter-resolution/

Satellogic is a private company and has just announced daily one-metre resolution global satellite imagery from its 'Merlin' constellation.

That's pretty scary stuff, and was previously only available to military intelligence (whose actual capabilities are, of course, classified).

If you want to do anything in secret, do it under a roof.

One meter resolution is not unprecedented for private companies as some can do higher resolution now, but it appears to be the combination of the high resolution with daily global coverage (rather than tasked targets) where satellogic is claiming their niche.

 

[bilby]

https://satellogic.com/news/press-r...ly-global-monitoring-at-one-meter-resolution/

Satellogic is a private company and has just announced daily one-metre resolution global satellite imagery from its 'Merlin' constellation.

That's pretty scary stuff, and was previously only available to military intelligence (whose actual capabilities are, of course, classified).

If you want to do anything in secret, do it under a roof.

One meter resolution is not unprecedented for private companies as some can do higher resolution now, but it appears to be the combination of the high resolution with daily global coverage (rather than tasked targets) where satellogic is claiming their niche.

Indeed, and that's a huge difference. It's one thing if people are already interested in spying on a particular location; Quite another to go on a global fishing expedition.

 

[Jarhyn]

https://satellogic.com/news/press-r...ly-global-monitoring-at-one-meter-resolution/

Satellogic is a private company and has just announced daily one-metre resolution global satellite imagery from its 'Merlin' constellation.

That's pretty scary stuff, and was previously only available to military intelligence (whose actual capabilities are, of course, classified).

If you want to do anything in secret, do it under a roof.

10 years ago, the US military had half-meter and occasionally quarter-meter telemetry of Iraq.

I'm pretty sure the US was quarter-meter for most of it, because those maps were made using airplane collection.

Daily one-meter telemetry is the basis for generating much more high-resolution aggregate, however, as multiple images at bad resolution give enough information for one image at extreme resolution.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

https://satellogic.com/news/press-r...ly-global-monitoring-at-one-meter-resolution/

Satellogic is a private company and has just announced daily one-metre resolution global satellite imagery from its 'Merlin' constellation.

That's pretty scary stuff, and was previously only available to military intelligence (whose actual capabilities are, of course, classified).

If you want to do anything in secret, do it under a roof.

1 meter is nothing special in the world of satellite imagery, there already are private companies that offer better.

1/day over the whole world is revolutionary.

 

[Jarhyn]

https://satellogic.com/news/press-r...ly-global-monitoring-at-one-meter-resolution/

Satellogic is a private company and has just announced daily one-metre resolution global satellite imagery from its 'Merlin' constellation.

That's pretty scary stuff, and was previously only available to military intelligence (whose actual capabilities are, of course, classified).

If you want to do anything in secret, do it under a roof.

1 meter is nothing special in the world of satellite imagery, there already are private companies that offer better.

1/day over the whole world is revolutionary.

Also, probably going to make a number of countries very nervous, as 1 meter daily makes change detection an option, and that's a hard military capability.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

https://satellogic.com/news/press-r...ly-global-monitoring-at-one-meter-resolution/

Satellogic is a private company and has just announced daily one-metre resolution global satellite imagery from its 'Merlin' constellation.

That's pretty scary stuff, and was previously only available to military intelligence (whose actual capabilities are, of course, classified).

If you want to do anything in secret, do it under a roof.

1 meter is nothing special in the world of satellite imagery, there already are private companies that offer better.

1/day over the whole world is revolutionary.

Also, probably going to make a number of countries very nervous, as 1 meter daily makes change detection an option, and that's a hard military capability.

Yeah, countries like Iran are going to be worried. They rely on sneaking rather than strength and this will make it much harder for them to sneak.

 

[Shadowy Man]

https://satellogic.com/news/press-r...ly-global-monitoring-at-one-meter-resolution/

Satellogic is a private company and has just announced daily one-metre resolution global satellite imagery from its 'Merlin' constellation.

That's pretty scary stuff, and was previously only available to military intelligence (whose actual capabilities are, of course, classified).

If you want to do anything in secret, do it under a roof.

1 meter is nothing special in the world of satellite imagery, there already are private companies that offer better.

1/day over the whole world is revolutionary.

Also, probably going to make a number of countries very nervous, as 1 meter daily makes change detection an option, and that's a hard military capability.

Sub-meter with multiple visits a day is already possible got targeted areas. Most of what this new system will observe will be uninteresting to most viewers.

What i am saying is that if those countries aren’t already nervous this capability isn’t likely going to change that.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

https://satellogic.com/news/press-r...ly-global-monitoring-at-one-meter-resolution/

Satellogic is a private company and has just announced daily one-metre resolution global satellite imagery from its 'Merlin' constellation.

That's pretty scary stuff, and was previously only available to military intelligence (whose actual capabilities are, of course, classified).

If you want to do anything in secret, do it under a roof.

1 meter is nothing special in the world of satellite imagery, there already are private companies that offer better.

1/day over the whole world is revolutionary.

Also, probably going to make a number of countries very nervous, as 1 meter daily makes change detection an option, and that's a hard military capability.

Sub-meter with multiple visits a day is already possible got targeted areas. Most of what this new system will observe will be uninteresting to most viewers.

What i am saying is that if those countries aren’t already nervous this capability isn’t likely going to change that.

What this permits is detecting small scale stuff in otherwise uninteresting places. The big guys can't hide stuff from the other big guys anyway, it's not going to change them.