Credit: Photo by Mihai Daniel Nita
Researchers are using?Cold?War spy satellite images to explore changes in the environment, including deforestation in Romania, marmot decline in Kazakhstan and ecological damage from bombs in Vietnam.?
Ecologists have harnessed new advances in image processing?to?improve analysis of declassified US military intelligence photographs and detect previously unseen?changes in the environment.?Dr Catalina Munteanu, of Humboldt University, and Dr Mihai Daniel Nita,?Transilvania?University of?Bra?ov, present new findings from the US Geological Survey?declassified?satellite imagery.?
The main data source for the analyses are Cold War Spy satellite images, which were collected by the US since 1960, initially to monitor the Sino-Soviet bloc. Eight satellites took pictures on film roll, which were then parachuted back into the atmosphere, where a perfectly timed US military plane snatched it mid-air before it could be intercepted.
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