Thursday, September 28, 2006

Satellite Imagery of Secret or Sensitive Locations

Continuing the Travel Without Moving Series, and a previous post on Open Source North Korean IMINT Reloaded, this collection of Google Earth, Google Maps, Local Live and Yahoo Maps versions of secret or sensitive locations is worth browsing through. Included coordinates for over 80 locations, for instance :

- Predator Drone Returning From Mission
- Predator Drones at Remote Airstrip
- Predator Drone Taking Off From Remote Airstrip
- TAGS 45 'Waters'
- M80 'Stiletto' Stealth Boat
- U-2 Being Readied For Mission
- Underground Hangars at Sunchon Airbase
- North Korean No-Dong Missile Assembly Building
- Former MI6/FCO high security SIGINT enclave at Poudon
- Former NSA/DoD satellite intercept site
- CIA 'Black Site' for terrorist interogations
- Russian Foreign Intelligence (SVR) Headquarters
- CFS Leitrim - Satellite Singal Interception station
- Russian Don-2NP Pill Box Radar
- Star Wars missile defense support site
- AN/FRD-10 Classic Bullseye Antenna
- Radomes on Fort Belvoir
- Northrop "Secret" Research Facility
- Classic Bullseye listening antenna array

As you will find out the data provided is a historical one -- the UAVs and B2s have already dissapeared for instance. Does the publicly obtainable imagery represent a threat to these locations? Not necessarily, as threats from which these facilities were supposed to be protected from have been replaced by ones requiring a different perspective. The dishes however, are still there, listening..

Related posts and resources:
Satellite
Defense
Military
Japan's Reliance on U.S Spy Satellites and Early Warning Missile Systems
Stealth Satellites Developments Source Book
Anti Satellite Weapons

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