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Comment by dhx

"It's designed to capture 5km-wide spot scenes on the ground and have a best resolution of 90cm."[1]

Some sample ~90cm-ish imagery from Airbus Vision-1 (20km swath 87cm resolution) is available at [2].

It looks like it'd be used for knowing when a warship is in port (but perhaps having to guess which one), or when a warship under construction has been floated, or when a large military construction project has started or completed, or when ground for a new military forward operating base has been cleared, etc. Then more expensive higher resolution imagery could be ordered if it were worthwhile to do so.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d77yq9zz2o

[2] https://intelligence.airbus.com/newsroom/satellite-image-gal...

parent dhx 2 years ago

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