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This is probably the one that will pay the bills.

If you can figure out fairly close-to-the-ground elevations, you can model a strike zone quite well.

Good for special operations raids.

But those folks might also have access to specialized NRO satellites, that can give you the data without the inference.




The US has that but a lot other nations do not, and Ukraine's been buying up geospatial imagery all over just as fast as it can get it.


can you explain this a bit more? i dont know a lot about this use case but it sounds pretty interesting


I’m not sure what there is to explain.

Seems pretty straightforward.




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