Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

Wed Apr 9 05:16:57 UTC 2008

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
> 