[ESIP-all] Looking for recent earth observations of the Tasman Sea

[frazmo]

It may be a long shot, but the folks at Skytruth might be able to help with
this issue of the lost ship. See their web site at:

http://skytruth.org/

and the recent article from the Washington Post Sunday magazine, which is
informative and could be of general interest to the community:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/skytruth-the-environment-and-the-satellite-revolution/2013/07/31/3a1d181a-d52b-11e2-b05f-3ea3f0e7bb5a_story.html

The same kinds of techniques they use to find illegal fishing ships could
be relevant to the question of what happened to the Schooner SV Niña. Best
and cheers,

Steve Young




On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Joe Hourcle
<oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov>wrote:

>
> I'm not much of one for observations pointed down from spacecraft.
>
> Does anyone know of any near-real-time observations of sufficient spatial
> resolution to help?
>
> (that they're actually allowed to talk about, of course)
>
> -Joe
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Barbara Thompson <barbara.j.thompson at gmail.com>
> > Date: August 8, 2013 6:26:43 PM EDT
> > To: Joe Hourclé <oneiros at annoying.org>
> > Subject: Virtual data pointing in the other direction?
> >
> > Joe,
> >
> > My friend Ralph is leading a search and rescue effort for a ship that's
> > been missing on the Tasman Sea.  They were last heard from June 4.  We're
> > trying to get images from May 28 to the present (emphasis on the earlier
> > part of that window) to see if we can get any clue of what's happened to
> > them.  There are 7 people on board - one of the people on the Schooner SV
> > Niña is Evi Nemeth, author of many famous Unix/Linux sysadmin manuals.
>  : (
> >
> > Google granted us a free license to Google Earth Pro, but it still
> doesn't
> > have images that are recent enough.  I wrote Google to see if they could
> > give us more recent images, but I haven't heard back.  I'm kind of lost
> > when it comes to Earth-pointed data, but then I realized I have a friend
> > who is involved in Informatics for the American Geophysical Union.  : )
> >
> > Any idea how to get high-res data?  The ship is 70 feet long, so the
> 1.5-m
> > resolution stuff in google earth would be fine.  Until we get images,
> > they're focusing on ocean current models + drift models for other
> abandoned
> > ships to help the aerial searchers more clearly refine the expected
> > location for the ship.
> >
> > The ship was fairly well equipped for a 3-week cruise, so it's possible
> for
> > them to survive with their supplies + fishing for several months.
> >
> > Any advice is appreciated.  We're posting info on the efforts at:
> >
> > http://evxx.com/
> >
> > Anyhow, if you have any idea how to get high-resolution data over the
> > Tasman Sea, I'd be very happy to hear it.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Barbara
>
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