Oil Disaster Emergency - Louisiana

[mynetdude]

There is no OPSEC behind what archer can do. It has High resolution hyperspectral imaging at one meter and 3 inch resolution for BW pictures. Software was purchased at the request of the USGS that allows Archer Data to be converted to GIS formats for research. But remember for each hour you fly you gather 30 gigs of Data. Most GIS programs freak at 300 megs of data. CAP never allowed USAF to upgrade several Archers (at USAF expense) to meet further needs of Northcom and Forrest Service. But we finally got the software to convert to Geotiffs.

Several Archer units are out of commission due to breakage, misuse, or plain just BROKE. CAWG working Archer is being taken away to be used as a transport plane by Nevada Wing, Alaska's and Utahs GA-8s with broken archers are sitting on the Ramps unused.

And CAP marches on.

Sorry, but I can't resist the urge.....

Maybe they can use the  Vanguard money to fix them........

:clap: nice response

[davidsinn]

The NOAA and other satellites that have been downloading the feeds are pretty clear

MAYBE ARCHER will do something, but the money is on the satellites and others such as USCG aircraft doing some of the low level stuff which is probably just as good or better than  ARCHER at the current time.

Lots o excitement about ARCHER...like Comm Geek  says.. It Isn't GIS.

But an explanation about ARCHER would be of "better" value than current satellite and aerial photo imagery in various forms would maybe greatly appreciated.

I would suspect we could get a better answer out of ASPRS.....American Society of Photogrammetrists and Remote Sensing.  I am sure their explanation of this and these types of natural resources missions are not so clouded in the CAP cry of OPSEC

This stuff was being done well before ARCHER came along....one day maybe the lid will blow off of ARCHER and it may or may not be the the big bad technology that "required OPSEC."   There are military and civilian satellites with more capability(ies) that probably require more OPSEC at a true level.

It's not OPSEC, it's proprietary code in the software. IE we don't own it so we can't distribute it. We now have software modules in it that allows free output for customers.