When we think about private espionage as the espionage that private companies make, we can say that companies like Satlantis, SpaceX and IceEye can be the next step for private espionage. Those companies can provide satellite and radar satellite services. That can beat the national espionage programs.
IceEye's radar satellites show their capacity in the Ukrainian war. Those radar satellites can see Russian convoys. The Starlink system can also route all information that travels through it to its operators. The private ELINT satellite can be a reprogrammed Starlink-type communication satellite.
Some companies provide high-resolution images from the ground. They operate highly advanced satellites. The first of those commercial high-resolution that provide quite high-resolution images was Ikonos. The Ikonos launched into space in 1999 and it retired in 2015. The resolution of those images that this civil geo-observing satellite could provide is about 1-1,5 meters. And that was a very high-resolution system. But its successors are more advanced.
Today satellites are more advanced than Ikonos. Those satellites' sensors are more effective than the Ikonos ever been. Those systems can take images of about 30cm in size tells those satellite's marketing page. Things like spectroscopes can offer a view of the chemical compounds that the engine exhaust gas involves.
When we think about free-to-use services like Google Earth. It is always mentioned. That the data that those services publish cannot harm anybody.
Things like military bases are not updated very often. The image below is taken from Google Earth and it's from the Severomorsk area. Details are taken by zooming those Google Earth images.
Above: Google Earth image of Severomorsk.
That service can also provide information about the classified areas. The data is not the newest possible, but it involves interesting details. The satellites. Advanced computers, AI, and radar technology allow the creation of remotely or automatically (AI) controlled airships or stratospheric satellites that can offer very high-resolution radars, lidar, and optical images.
Computer-based systems can connect data from satellites and stratospheric satellites. The new artificial intelligence-based solutions that can remove pixels for zoom images open new visions to private espionage.
Private espionage is the most interesting and dangerous thing in the world. Any private investigator can buy things like drones and mobile telephones and take images of the objects. The drone can carry microphones or the private eye can use laser microphones or hack the surveillance cameras. There are also things like intelligent glasses that private espionage people can use to film offices. Then the operators can find interesting details from those films.
They can slip mobile telephones. That are polluted with malicious software into the office.
And that's why. Some people are worried about the free electronics. Like tablets. That the Chinese online stores offer.
The fact is that. It's possible to slip an espionage program into those systems. And that system can act as a gate for hackers.
https://www.freethink.com/artificial-intelligence/private-intelligence
https://www.iceye.com
https://www.worldview.space/remote-sensing
https://www.satimagingcorp.com/satellite-sensors/ikonos/
https://www.satlantis.com
https://www.starlink.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikonos
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