Tuesday, June 9, 2015

If satellites are fake (they are) then tracking Vendee Globe is fake-- and thus so is Vendee Globe.






Felix wrote in comments below-- I'm reposting those to the main blog page here for readers' convenience and turning his URLS into live link.


I wondered why "Envisat" hadn't tracked the Race in 2012/3 but we find.....
Envisat
9 May 2012
- Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was 
suddenly loston 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation of failure scenarios, theend of the mission is being declared. 

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Envisat/Mission_overview
What rotten luck.
Who uses Envisat data?
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Envisat/Who_uses_Envisat_data ...Ice 
Antarctica
(British Antarctica Survey) ....
http://web.archive.org/web/20110315033559/http://www.polarview.aq/services_hires.php

http://web.archive.org/web/20110314093758/http://www.polarview.aq/about.php
Polar View delivers information about sea ice and icebergs direct to ships operating in the Southern Ocean. We use several types of satellite imagery to deliver a comprehensive, detailed and up to date picture of sea ice extent and distribution. Better knowledge of sea ice conditions contributes directly to improved ship safety and efficiency. Safer and efficient ship operations also helps to protect the Antarctic environment.
Users of Polar View services in the Antarctic include national programme operators, tourist vessels and other ships working in this region. We aim to make sea ice information widely accessible to all ships and operators in the Southern Ocean.
Polar View services in the Antarctic are provided by an experienced team of polar satellite imaging experts from companies and research institutes in Europe and Canada. 
The Polar View Antarctic services are managed by the British Antarctic Survey.
Polar View is supported in the Antarctic by the 
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the European Space Agency and the European Commission.


All this has gone 404. 
http://web.archive.org/web/20091025075211/http://www.polarview.aq/services_hires.php
A bit like the Envisat.
Ice velocity maphttp://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Envisat/Ice_thickness
In August 2011, the first map of ice velocity over the entire continent of Antarctica was created derived from,
Envisat ASAR, ALOS PALSAR, Radarsat-2, ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellite radar interferometry overlaid on aMODIS mosaic of Antarctica. These new findings are critical to measuring the global impact to sea-level rise resulting from ice flowing into the ocean. 


High res image here
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2011/08/Antarctic_ice_sheet_velocity

What's the Mosaic of Antarctica? It all seems to go back to NASA
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/MOA/
Dec 6 2005...thanks to NASA satellite data
“It’s an almost perfect picture of the surface of the continent,” says Ted Scambos, lead scientist at [ National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado]....
“It reveals a lot of surface detail, and it covers a huge area. This is a big step in mapping Antarctica.”


Used, for instance, on this map of ice melt [NASA again]
http://climate.nasa.gov/news/937/
Rates of basal melt of Antarctic ice shelves (melting of the shelves from underneath) overlaid on a 2009 mosaic of Antarctica created from data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua spacecraft. 

I see no menton of Antarctica on the NASA pages of Terra and Aqua linked here:
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/755402main_earth20130613b-full.jpg
Lead author on this study of Antarctica: 
Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif





Here's an introductory documentary on the fake (as all satellites are... see septemberclues.com, big-lies.com and fakeologist.com or google/youtube search  "satellites are fake"). Notice how the video creator combines real video with simulations without stating when  the simulations are being shown. Sometimes, the video seems so realistic that its appears real until an animation occurs and the viewer then realizes its a cartoon.




3 comments:

  1. I wondered why "Envisat" hadn't tracked the Race in 2012/3 but we find.....

    Envisat
    9 May 2012
    - Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation of failure scenarios, the end of the mission is being declared.

    http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Envisat/Mission_overview
    What rotten luck.

    Who uses Envisat data?
    http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Envisat/Who_uses_Envisat_data
    ...Ice
    Antarctica
    (British Antarctica Survey) ....
    http://web.archive.org/web/20110315033559/http://www.polarview.aq/services_hires.php

    http://web.archive.org/web/20110314093758/http://www.polarview.aq/about.php

    Polar View delivers information about sea ice and icebergs direct to ships operating in the Southern Ocean. We use several types of satellite imagery to deliver a comprehensive, detailed and up to date picture of sea ice extent and distribution. Better knowledge of sea ice conditions contributes directly to improved ship safety and efficiency. Safer and efficient ship operations also helps to protect the Antarctic environment.
    Users of Polar View services in the Antarctic include national programme operators, tourist vessels and other ships working in this region. We aim to make sea ice information widely accessible to all ships and operators in the Southern Ocean.
    Polar View services in the Antarctic are provided by an experienced team of polar satellite imaging experts from companies and research institutes in Europe and Canada. The Polar View Antarctic services are managed by the British Antarctic Survey.
    Polar View is supported in the Antarctic by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the European Space Agency and the European Commission.


    All this has gone 404.
    http://web.archive.org/web/20091025075211/http://www.polarview.aq/services_hires.php
    A bit like the Envisat.

    Ice velocity map
    http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Envisat/Ice_thickness
    In August 2011, the first map of ice velocity over the entire continent of Antarctica was created derived from, Envisat ASAR, ALOS PALSAR, Radarsat-2, ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellite radar interferometry overlaid on a MODIS mosaic of Antarctica. These new findings are critical to measuring the global impact to sea-level rise resulting from ice flowing into the ocean.


    High res image here
    http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2011/08/Antarctic_ice_sheet_velocity

    What's the Mosaic of Antarctica? It all seems to go back to NASA
    http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/MOA/
    Dec 6 2005...thanks to NASA satellite data
    “It’s an almost perfect picture of the surface of the continent,” says Ted Scambos, lead scientist at [ National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado]....
    “It reveals a lot of surface detail, and it covers a huge area. This is a big step in mapping Antarctica.”


    Used, for instance, on this map of ice melt [NASA again]
    http://climate.nasa.gov/news/937/
    Rates of basal melt of Antarctic ice shelves (melting of the shelves from underneath) overlaid on a 2009 mosaic of Antarctica created from data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua spacecraft.

    I see no menton of Antarctica on the NASA pages of Terra and Aqua linked here:
    http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/


    http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/755402main_earth20130613b-full.jpg
    Lead author on this study of Antarctica: Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif

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  2. So, no more of this now....
    http://www.space-airbusds.com/en/news2/collision-in-antarctica-seen-from-space.html
    An animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97 km long B-9B iceberg ramming into the Mertz glacier tongue in Eastern Antarctica in early February.
    That's a shame.

    Strange, but the article below directs one to the Spot 5 satellite [also Airbus]
    http://www.space-airbusds.com/en/news2/birth-of-a-giant-iceberg.html
    Oh no, not another 404 - these antarctic satellite imagery organistions don't like their web pages to hang around too long...
    http://web.archive.org/web/20110507070128/http://www.spotimage.com/web/en/1587-international-polar-year.php

    Watching Earth’s poles from space
    - -
    -

    Spot Image and CNES are taking an active interest in these issues and supplying satellite data for IPY research programmes.....

    Image 2.5 million sq.km. of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, covering glaciers, small ice caps and coastal areas....


    I'm not sure what this Airbus "space garbage collection system" has to do with Envisat
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHMU0o4JALg
    Ridiculous in the extreme.

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    1. Bookmarking SPIRIT [=SPOT 5 stereoscopic survey of Polar Ice: Reference Images and
      Topographies] satellite coverage of Antarctica from Airbus Defense and Space
      http://www.geo-airbusds.com/en/2934-spirit-spot-5-stereoscopic-survey-of-polar-ice-reference-images-and-topographies
      Jan 17 2012
      http://www2.geo-airbusds.com/files/pmedia/public/r3708_9_spot5hrs_acquisitions_south.jpg
      One major constrain was the 81.15° north – 81.15° south acquisition limits of the SPOT 5 orbit. The flat, snow-covered and homogenous central regions of the Antarctic and
      Greenland ice sheets were deliberately excluded because DTMs derived from stereoscopic optical
      images generally contain large data gaps over homogeneous regions (Berthier and Toutin, 2008)
      and, anyway, they would not reach the sub-meter accuracy already obtained using radar or laser altimetric surveys on very smooth topography.
      http://www2.geo-airbusds.com/files/pmedia/public/r3712_9_article_spirit_isprs_2009.pdf


      http://www2.geo-airbusds.com/files/pmedia/public/r3711_9_hrs_acquisitions_souththpole.jpg

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