#satellite-imagery
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Pulling Focus: What Is This Blurry Building by a Kyrgyz Highway?
Bellingcat Globetrotters. A blurred photo from a moving car, one Cyrillic sign and no building name. The letter Ү pointed to Kyrgyzstan, Google fixed a half-read village name, and a 2015 Street View pass pinned the junction on the A365.
The Survey Plane Already Flew — Timestamping with Open Aerial Archives
National aerial survey programmes photograph entire countries on a fixed cadence and publish the frames as open data — in Denmark's case with capture timestamps accurate to the second. When and how to use Skråfoto, PDOK, and Norge i bilder to date a scene instead of guessing.
Nine Kilometres Off: Geolocating an Airstrike Photo in Mogok Township
A news photo captioned 'western Mogok' sent me searching the wrong town for an hour. The phrase is administrative, not geographic — and the fix came from a Google Maps review.