Ask HN: Detailed, realtime satellite imagery, to verify convoy length?

14 points·armagon··8 comments

There's a convoy of trucks heading for Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. News sources say it's on the order of a thousand trucks; social media says there's over 50 000 trucks, and that it stretches on for 400km.

I was wondering if there is a way to verify either of the claims. Is there a way I can see detailed satellite imagery with images from today?

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If they ride at night, maybe you can try finding a free light dataset on Earth Engine Data Catalog. When I checked last year, the data were pretty recent I think.

Not quite realtime, but Planet has ~daily imagery of the world. If you give them enough money I suppose you could get closer to realtime.

Sounds like traffic cameras might be easier to use.

What are they protesting for?

They're against vaccine mandates.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/28/why-are-anti-vaccin...

What an impressively biased article. Conspicuously omitting the word “mandate” from the headline despite its presence in the second paragraph, and the always popular racist-by-proximity libel. I cringe so hard when “my side” has to resort to dirty wording tricks instead of just having the better factual argument.

This is so true, I've been following the convoy this week. All the videos I've seen that posted by the people we're messages of love and respect. Everybody are talking about calming down and not showing any violence since they will use this against them.... Yet no violence and they still manage to make it think in people's mind. It's really a rigged world we're living in.

Word is that the traffic cameras have recently been turned off.

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