Google Earth Used as a Spy Satellite?
section: common, for your questions: KezNews forum, 13.12.2007
The homicide detectives from the Melbourne department have recently started investigating a murder case, which seems to be taken out of a thriller that cannot be broadcasted before midnight. The body was found wrapped in plastic bags and dumped in the front yard of an empty Melbourne house that had an overgrown lawn, which covered the body all too well.
Imagine the surprise and owe of the owner of the Springvale house, in View Road, while working with a friend in the yard to discover the body of the Asian woman, that the police estimated was between 20 and 30 years old at the time of death, wrapped in blue plastic bags. While this happened yesterday, police media spokesman Dave Spencer held a press conference today and announced that he gave the AAP homicide detectives access to all the resources they would need and authorized every means necessary, in order to find those responsible, while evidence and people’s memories were still fresh.
Ultimately, they have to turn to Google Earth tracking, which might provide vital clues to the death of the young woman, as a Google Earth van had been tracking the respective suburb for the past week. "It is new technology and we might get something out of it", Detective Senior Sergeant Jeff Maher said. What the police are hoping for is basically to have the moment of the dump recorded by Google Earth, and from that they would get at least a license plate to the car that was used to bring the body there.
Google Earth is not the only lead they have, but Maher hopes that it will indeed prove useful. But provided that happens, this will have been the first ever case of the service from the Mountain View based company when it is used as a spy satellite. Not very mind soothing, is it?
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Comments(4)
is it just me, or does the writer have google earth confused with the street level images
where you can drive around the streets....
go to maps.google.com and you can go to street level and drive through the streets
exactly thanks for making my point.... maps.google.com is not google earth. ;)
well, here lies the problem, all google earth images are 5 years old. i know because
areas that were under construction such as airports and roadway 5 years ago and it's on
the google earth and the constructions are no longer, so how can they say that they used
it to solve a crime if the image is out-dated?
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By Phiber0pt on 14.12.2007 - 02:12