On February 17 2021 a large oil slick reached Israeli beaches with no clear origin. The spill affected over 90% of Israel coasts and was by all means an ecological disaster which would take years to fully recover from. Investigations where immediately launched, rumours begun spreading, and wrong allegations where made. Then, three weeks after […]
5GIT – Demo research
How to use it To illustrate some of the tool workings and in general suggest ways to use it in your researches, I’m going to guide you through a fast research over the Persian Gulf area, specifically we will check if as consequence of the August 17 and September 14 attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure, […]
SENTINEL-1 and the Seas of Japan
While checking for Patriot activity in South Korea I stumbled on the interesting increase of interferences in the seas surrounding Japan. This pushed me to investigate a little further to isolate the potential sources for them. Hyūga class helicopter destroyers The vessels (2) which became operational in the late first decade of 2000 saw the […]
SENTINEL-1 C-SAR interference analysis. Intro
This article wants to be some kind of introduction to the technique first discovered and exposed by Harel Dan in his Medium post from 2018 (highly recommended read) which involves using the publicly available SENTINEL-1 satellites data to detect and locate powerful sources of radio frequencies in (some of) the C band. We will also […]