How I check a strike location with free satellite data, and when I refuse to publish
A reader asked how we decide whether a claimed strike location holds up. Here's the free toolkit and the actual decision rule. Nothing here needs a paid account. The free sources Sentinel-2 (ESA, optical): 10 m resolution in the visible bands, a new image roughly every 5 days at mid latitudes. Big burn scars, collapsed large buildings, craters in fields. Not cars, not people. Sentinel-1 (radar): sees through clouds…
- Very good. For Sentinel-1 I recommend starting with obvious things first, like a big bridge or airport, to learn how radar shows "normal" before trying damage. It looks like noise until suddenly it does not)
