Timeline for Does a system exist that can bulk process satellite data to find a plane lost over ocean?
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| Mar 13, 2014 at 8:59 | comment | added | jwenting | @CJBS the main problem with repositioning satellites for spot use like this is that they only have a limited amount of fuel for doing that, and that's needed to keep the satellite in a stable orbit as well. Thus repositioning it for the purpose of taking a few snapshots of a patch of open ocean is extremely costly, it reduces the life of that satellite by potentially years, which given the construction and launch cost means a price tag of tens of millions of dollars. Cheaper to fly out a P3 or other patrol aircraft. | |
| Mar 11, 2014 at 9:52 | comment | added | Nigel Harper | Another attempt to use satellite imagery in the search. | |
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| Mar 10, 2014 at 19:07 | vote | accept | CJBS | ||
| Mar 10, 2014 at 19:07 | comment | added | CJBS | The point about wave/wash colour in comparison to mostly white aircraft parts is a good one. | |
| Mar 10, 2014 at 18:55 | comment | added | CJBS | My point with the satellites was that for government satellites, compared with the cost of sending government-paid search/recovery efforts, especially with military resources, there might be a cost advantage to temporarily re-purposing satellites to capture data over a given area. The data obtained by Google is only updated infrequently, but satellite data can be updated within one or two days in some cases. | |
| Mar 10, 2014 at 17:51 | comment | added | David Richerby | Note that, in general, searching Google Maps won't help because the "satellite" (actually, mostly aerial) imagery is often several years out of date. In the Fossett case, Google obtained fresh imagery from Digital Globe | |
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| Mar 10, 2014 at 8:30 | history | answered | Thunderstrike | CC BY-SA 3.0 |