Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

2008-04-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Lots - for values of lots including "practically all" - of ships use the AIS (Automatic Identification System), which broadcasts various details on radio. For an example application, try www.aisliverpool.org.uk On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:44 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:1

Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

2008-04-09 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:15:03 -0600 > "Martin Hannigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There are a number of unique characteristics of ships including > > profile and radar fingerprint. I'd like to see the images fr

Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

2008-04-09 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:16:57 -0700 > Joel Jaeggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: > > > > > > Sean Donelan wrote: > > > > > >> Awesome, so could anyone buy a copy of the same

Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

2008-04-08 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sean Donelan wrote: > > > > Awesome, so could anyone buy a copy of the same images? Which satellite > > do you think happened to be taking images of the area with these ships > near the time the cables were broken

Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

2008-04-08 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Sean Donelan wrote: Awesome, so could anyone buy a copy of the same images? Which satellite do you think happened to be taking images of the area with these ships near the time the cables were broken? Which company is selling that set of images? Wouldn't it be reasonable that, when the br

Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

2008-04-08 Thread Jeff Shultz
Deepak Jain wrote: There is no reason to assume these are civilian satellites. Any one of a number of affected or interested countries could have provided the imagery (or ship information) to Reliance. Its not saying *who* analyzed the images. ;) Then again, how are ship's captains suppose