Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

Re:Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps by bee_rider on Monday December 20, 2021 @01:20PM (#29627999)

I wonder if imaging from above could actually be a threat for these planes. I mean -- stick cameras on all the SpaceX satellites and you've got an awful lot of eyeballs in LEO, right? Might at least be able to tell a ground based radar where to focus their search...

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Re:Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps by t0mas88 on Monday December 20, 2021 @01:22PM (#29628032)

They fly in the dark and IR imaging doesn't work very well due to coatings and trying to hide the engine heath signature.

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Re:Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps by andrelaszlo on Monday December 20, 2021 @01:34PM (#29628202)

When each signature refers to the previous one, it forms a Heath Ledger?

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Re:Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps by tener on Monday December 20, 2021 @01:24PM (#29628063)

Pretty sure you need powerful lenses to do useful things though, but who knows, maybe this is workable with some image processing of multiple satellite feeds?

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Re:Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps by bee_rider on Monday December 20, 2021 @01:56PM (#29628542)

Yeah, I'm sure somebody is already doing good work on whatever the photographic equivalent of Synthetic Aperture Radar is. They should call it Synthetic Lens Aperture Photography, so they could use SLAP as the acronym (the most important property of a research topic is of course the ability to come up with good titles).

For example:

SLAP BASS: a Synthetic Lens Aperture Photography, Bandwidth Augmenting Sensor Suite

Does it make technical sense? I have no idea. But it sounds cool!

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Re:Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps by cooljacob204 on Monday December 20, 2021 @01:28PM (#29628114)

They often fly their missions at night time, so this would mitigate that.

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