Comments on: Can Spy Satellites read your Car Number Plate? http://www.nerdmodo.com/2009/10/can-spy-satellites-read-your-car-number-plate/ For All Your Nerdy Bytes Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:13:21 +0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: E Cig http://www.nerdmodo.com/2009/10/can-spy-satellites-read-your-car-number-plate/comment-page-2/#comment-5500 E Cig Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:31:27 +0000 http://www.nerdmodo.com/?p=1720#comment-5500 This is really scary stuff right here.<br><br>Your girl Mary :) This is really scary stuff right here.

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]]> By: JMB http://www.nerdmodo.com/2009/10/can-spy-satellites-read-your-car-number-plate/comment-page-2/#comment-5361 JMB Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:44:36 +0000 http://www.nerdmodo.com/?p=1720#comment-5361 adar can only see 3D images ie: cars, people, buildings etc. You get the idea. Well a numberplate although mounted on a 3D object is itself 2D ie: letters and numbers. I am a photographer by profession and know of the amazing resolutions available to me ad to this the amazing advancements in lens technology. They are adding nano crystals to lenses this corrects any distortion in the colour spectrum resulting in a far sharper image. The world of optics and didital imaging sensors has moves on so much in the last 10 years its amazing. adar can only see 3D images ie: cars, people, buildings etc. You get the idea. Well a numberplate although mounted on a 3D object is itself 2D ie: letters and numbers. I am a photographer by profession and know of the amazing resolutions available to me ad to this the amazing advancements in lens technology. They are adding nano crystals to lenses this corrects any distortion in the colour spectrum resulting in a far sharper image. The world of optics and didital imaging sensors has moves on so much in the last 10 years its amazing.

]]> By: Guest http://www.nerdmodo.com/2009/10/can-spy-satellites-read-your-car-number-plate/comment-page-2/#comment-4759 Guest Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:07:20 +0000 http://www.nerdmodo.com/?p=1720#comment-4759 reply to chodpaba's comment, u seem stumped by his knowledge :) reply to chodpaba's comment, u seem stumped by his knowledge :)

]]> By: Guest http://www.nerdmodo.com/2009/10/can-spy-satellites-read-your-car-number-plate/comment-page-2/#comment-4555 Guest Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:07:20 +0000 http://www.nerdmodo.com/?p=1720#comment-4555 reply to chodpaba's comment, u seem stumped by his knowledge :) reply to chodpaba's comment, u seem stumped by his knowledge :)

]]> By: jmb http://www.nerdmodo.com/2009/10/can-spy-satellites-read-your-car-number-plate/comment-page-2/#comment-4461 jmb Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:59:45 +0000 http://www.nerdmodo.com/?p=1720#comment-4461 Well it depends on the focal length of the lens used to capture the image in the first place. Take this example. I take a photograph of a Animal a few hundred meters away with a 200mm lens. But I need to crop the image to get close enough to see the animal "close up" or I take the same animal using a 800mm or longer lens and what do think happens. Yep. I no longer need to crop the image to get in close. Effectively gaining resolution. I terms of whats actually possible I would hazard a guess that a super telephoto lens of some 20000mm (yes thats 20 thousand ) or more is quite achievable you add a high pixel sensor to the mix lets say a 500 million pixel (150 million pixel sensors are already available to the public at "affordable" prices. But you can bet the US government will not settle fore some sensor that joe public can buy all be it a £25k+<br>I believe it is possible to read a number plate from a spy satellite. Oh yea one more thing. Last week there was a news report that the British army took delivery of a new super zoom camera for use in Afghanistan. It has the resolution to seen and read London's BIG BEN at over 50km away. So if thats the technology we know of then reading number plates from space is very much a reality. Its not that far up into space when you think about it. A spy satellite sitting 75km in orbit with a camera 4-5 as powerful zoom as the one the army use and it will read the number plates of a car. Well it depends on the focal length of the lens used to capture the image in the first place. Take this example. I take a photograph of a Animal a few hundred meters away with a 200mm lens. But I need to crop the image to get close enough to see the animal “close up” or I take the same animal using a 800mm or longer lens and what do think happens. Yep. I no longer need to crop the image to get in close. Effectively gaining resolution. I terms of whats actually possible I would hazard a guess that a super telephoto lens of some 20000mm (yes thats 20 thousand ) or more is quite achievable you add a high pixel sensor to the mix lets say a 500 million pixel (150 million pixel sensors are already available to the public at “affordable” prices. But you can bet the US government will not settle fore some sensor that joe public can buy all be it a £25k+
I believe it is possible to read a number plate from a spy satellite. Oh yea one more thing. Last week there was a news report that the British army took delivery of a new super zoom camera for use in Afghanistan. It has the resolution to seen and read London's BIG BEN at over 50km away. So if thats the technology we know of then reading number plates from space is very much a reality. Its not that far up into space when you think about it. A spy satellite sitting 75km in orbit with a camera 4-5 as powerful zoom as the one the army use and it will read the number plates of a car.

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