想知道如何使卫星图像分析师立即对某些事情感到好奇吗？
模糊it out.
Google Earth occasionally does this at the request of governments that want to keep prying eyes away from some of their more sensitive military or political sites. France, for example, has asked Google to obscure all imagery of its prisons after a French gangster successfully conducted a Hollywood-inspired jailbreak involving drones, smoke bombs, and a stolen helicopter(!)—and Google hasagreed要在2018年底之前遵守。以类似的方式，一项古老的荷兰法律要求荷兰公司模糊其军事和皇家设施的卫星图像，即使是卫星图像提供商篡改沃尔克尔空军基地的图像购买FAS的汉斯·克里斯蒂森（Hans Kristensen）。
Yandex Maps-Russia最重要的映射服务also agreed to selectively blur out specific sites beyond recognition; however, it has done so for just two countries: Israel and Turkey. The areas of these blurred sites range from large complexes—such as airfields or munitions storage bunkers—to small, nondescript buildings within city blocks.
Although blurring out specific sites is certainly unusual, it is not uncommon for satellite imagery companies to downgrade the resolution of certain sets of imagery before releasing them to viewing platforms like Yandex or Google Earth; in fact, if you trawl around the globe using these platforms, you’ll notice that different locations will be rendered in a variety of resolutions. Downtown Toronto, for example, is always visible at an extremely high resolution; looking closely, you can spot my bike parked outside my old apartment. By contrast, imagery of downtown Jerusalem is always significantly blurrier; you can just barely make out cars parked on the side of the road.
As I explained in my以前的作品关于地理位置以色列爱国者电池，这是一项1997年的美国法律，称为Kyl-Bingaman修正案（KBA），禁止美国公司以比市售的低地面采样距离出版以色列的卫星图像。这通常意味着，诸如DigitalGlobe和Google Earth等观看平台之类的美国卫星公司不会发布任何以色列的图像，这些图像比2M分辨率更好。
俄罗斯的Yandex等外国地图服务在法律上不受KBA的限制，但是无论如何，它们往往遵守2M的分辨率规则，这可能有两个原因。首先，经过20年之后，KBA标准在卫星图像行业中已经有些制度化。其次，俄罗斯公司（和俄罗斯国家）肯定要谨慎行事，以使俄罗斯与以色列的批判性关系做出任何事情。
但是，Yandex除了简单地降级以色列的图像而迈出了一步，就像大多数映射服务一样。Yandex本身（或可能的图像提供商Scanex）整体都模糊了特定的军事装置。有趣的是，它对土耳其做了同样的事情，土耳其没有受益于没有特殊标准的国家，因此几乎总是以很高的分辨率显示出来。
这种模糊几乎可以肯定是以色列和土耳其要求的结果。一家俄罗斯公司似乎不太可能承担自己的意志耗时的任务。幸运的是（从Osint的角度来看），这具有意想不到的效果揭示the location and exact perimeter of every significant military facility within both countries, if one isobsessivecurious enough to sift through theentiremap looking for blurry patches. Matching the blurred sites to un-blurred (albeit downgraded) imagery available through Google Earth is a method of “tipping and cueing,” in which one dataset is used to inform a more detailed analysis of a second dataset.
我在以色列和土耳其在300种不同的建筑物，机场，港口，掩体，储存地点，基地，营房，核设施和随机建筑物中的完整列表中，总计超过300个不同的建筑物，港口，港口，储存地点，储藏室和随机建筑物 - 提出了一些有趣的考虑点：
- Yandex的模糊站点列表中包括至少两个北约设施：Izmir的Allied Land Command（Landcom）和Incirlik Air Base，该空军基地是美国B61最大的B61核重力炸弹，在任何北约基地。
- 奇怪的是不Russian facilities have been blurred—including its nuclear facilities, submarine bases, air bases, launch sites, or numerous foreign military bases in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, or the Middle East.
- 尽管俄罗斯在叙利亚的永久军事装置都没有模糊，但几乎整个叙利亚的分辨率都被描绘得极低，因此几乎不可能利用Yandex来分析叙利亚图像。相比之下，克里米亚和整个唐巴斯地区都在非常高的分辨率下都可以看到，因此，这种模糊的标准仅适用于俄罗斯的外国冒险。
- All four Israeli Patriot batteries that I identified using radar interference in my上一篇文章已经模糊不清，证实这些站点确实具有军事作用。
放在俄罗斯与以色列和土耳其的关系的地缘政治阴谋上，Yandex的行动是所谓的典型例子Streisand Effect. In 2003, Barbra Streisand attempted to sue a photographer who posted photos of her Malibu mansion online, claiming $10 million in damages and demanding that the innocuous photo be taken down. Her actions completely backfired: not only did Streisand lose the case and have to cover the defendant’s legal fees, but the attention raised by her lawsuit directed significant traffic to the photo in question. Before the lawsuit, the photo had only been viewed six times (including twice by Streisand’s lawyers); a month later, the photo had accumulated over 420,000 views—a prime example of how attempting to obscure something is actually likely to result in unwanted attention.
So too with Yandex. By complying with requests to selectively obscure military facilities, the mapping service has actuallyrevealedtheir precise locations, perimeters, and potential function to anyone curious enough to find them all.
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