-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.drdish.com/features/crime.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.drdish.com/features/crime.html">Crime Research </A> ----- Every day we hear about the murdering and kidnappings of children and youths. Whether this reflects an actual increase in such crimes or just the tabloids� efforts to present ever bloodier stories is an interesting question that, however, is not this article�s topic. Many missing children are just runaways, but in case they actually become the victim of a crime, they�re most likely not to survive. Most of the time, the offender fears his victim could recognise him. Today, searching for dead bodies is a highly developed routine that involves the police, the army, volunteers and sometimes even the help of a F-15 or F-16. The planes� infrared cameras can detect thermal anomalies on the ground for up to ten days after a body was dug. Although the dead body may be found, there is still no trace of the criminal. And the place where the body was found is most likely not to be the scene of the crime. Tracing back the offender is not that easy. If no witnesses have seen anything it is very hard to trace them. Satellites Still, there are other, silent witnesses such as geostationary satellites used for research purposes. They would be ideal as they look at the same area all the time. But as these satellites are still high above the earth�s surface, the pictures they take have a resolution of just 1km . Low-orbit satellites circling the earth at an altitude of 200 to 800 km can take much more accurate pictures. Experts almost immediately answer �no� when asked about the possibility of using those pictures for crime research. And a satellite doesn�t cover a particular area for 24 hours a day. German commercial broadcaster Sat1 invited an expert into a show dedicated to this subject. He brought with him some pictures made with Landsat, showing that it is absolutely impossible to see any of the details we are talking about. And he is right, of course, although you can see the difference between Dutch flower fields and the French vineyards, it is quite impossible to tell the colour of a car just because it�s too small. Next try: France�s Spot 4. Again, the resolution is not good enough - just 10km. Still, they do offer a very good service and can supply you the picture you want from a particular area on a particular date. We gave it a try and requested a picture of a certain area somewhere south of Budapest near the Danube river on March 27 between 13:00 and 15:00h. Just as expected the picture covered an area of 60x60km. Even after zooming in, the best we could get was a 10x10km area, and the smallest recognisable objects were some boats on the Danube. At least it proved that it was indeed possible to obtain photographs of a certain area at a given date and time. Even that was more than the expert in the Sat1 program had to offer. Commercial Imaging But there is more. How about the military satellites of both the US and Russia? They won�t help us, was our immediate reaction, of course. Using services of private companies in the US was not our second thought at that moment, although exactly these guys can do it. A company called Earthwatch offers pictures from a large archive with a resolution of no less than 82cm, sufficient to tell the colour of a car. That may seem of no particular importance but it can be of great help for prosecutors. Still, the satellites have to have been above a particular area at a particular date and time. This is frequently the case as there are enough of such satellites already. Judging from publicly available tracking data, no less than 7 satellites had come across our selected area at the same date - research satellites as well as military satellites. Some of them are completely useless for our purposes (Spot-4, Seastar and weather satellites). But there was also the US Department of Defense�s KH-12 satellite. Rumours has it that the KH (keyhole) satellites have a resolution of down to 30cm, although this has never been officially confirmed. We got our hands on a photo taken by KH-10 showing a Russian shipyard. The high resolution makes it possible to zoom in, so this is what we were looking for. Mass-graves in former Yugoslavia were also detected by satellites of the KH series. Will the military help? But now, how do we get those top-secret pictures? Experts said that the U.S. will not co-operate. Wrong. We simply called the Department of Defense (DOD), and they said that it was possible for prosecutors from other countries to get some pictures in order to clear up a crime. Which is nothing new, of course: KH-11 pictures reportedly helped French secret agents arresting top-terrorist Carlos the Jackal in Sudan. Could it be possible that the Sat1 expert simply was not aware of that? The DOD also supply the FBI with pictures upon request, probably just not with the highest resolution possible. Pictures with a resolution of 10m are no military secret as long as they don�t cover so-called sensitive areas. That is quite enough for our purposes anyway. After just one week of research, we proved that both commercial as well as governmental satellites can very well be used to solve crimes. Pictures with good resolution and of high quality can show particular areas where something might have happened on a certain day. This, of course, leaves the door open for misuse as well, especially as there are many more commercial spy satellite systems planned which offer even a better resolution than just 10 meters. Quite a nice thought that anybody on Earth might be able to research where you may have parked your car at a certain time. 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