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jjk166yesterday at 5:24 PM1 replyview on HN

Satellite synthetic aperture radar can have a resolution of like 6 inches. I can't imagine consumer grade drones are significantly improving on this, and even if they could do better I would question the utility of higher resolution data for anything military related.


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inetknghtyesterday at 5:44 PM

> I can't imagine consumer grade drones are significantly improving on this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073808

It's not necessarily better than 6 inches. But it's pretty decent, down to 0.3m, roughly 12 inches.

> even if they could do better I would question the utility of higher resolution data for anything military related.

Oh boy. Suffice to say that it definitely is useful for many things military related.

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