[103624] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Wed Apr 9 01:33:17 2008
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:16:57 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <47FC42EB.6080104@zill.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>
> Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>> Awesome, so could anyone buy a copy of the same images? Which satellite
>> do you think happened to be taking images of the area with these ships
>> near the time the cables were broken? Which company is selling that
>> set of images?
>
> Wouldn't it be reasonable that, when the break occurred, they used their
> optical time domain reflectometer to compute the approximate location of
> the break, and then just called around for whoever had the best images,
> or who could quickly task the satellite to get an image?
spot can generally deliver an image within 1 day in 60kmx60km blocks
assuming no contention for the slot. 20m resolution is more than
adequate to pick up ships underway at sea. ikonos can deliver 11x11km
swaths.
> --Patrick
>
