Are algorithms used for processing these images subject to the recently announced embargo? Cool stuff.
I somehow missed that North Korea has a ballistic missile submarine. Makes a war against them even more difficult.
I somehow missed that North Korea has a ballistic missile submarine. Makes a war against them even more difficult.
Most implementations I’ve come across are variations of the standard textbook approaches, with modifications made for computational efficiency or a little company-specific secret sauce (think proprietary techniques) thrown in.
If you’re looking for some search terms, you might try: “polar format”, “range migration”, or “tomographic backprojection”. The first two are Fourier-transform based approaches that are relatively computationally efficient. The last, in its textbook form is O(n^3) — less efficient.
North Korea could be armed with sticks and stones and war against them would be just as difficult since they are backed by china explicitly and russia implicitly. If china and russia said north korea is on their own, we'd bomb them back to the stone age within a few hours. As long as north korea is back by china and russia, they are pretty much off limits.
(Also, I hope you remember that they've got nukes now, partly courtesy of US domestic politics counting above mitigating real world problems)
No doubt the North Koreans still have a lot left before reaching the operational capability of the Russian road mobile ICBM forces, particularly with respect to accuracy and reliability. But nuclear weapons are not that picky with aiming, and numerical redundancy is certainly within the North Korean capability.