Space Archaeology, Spy Satellites & "Anomaly Hunting." The July 6th, 2020 Edition of the Age of Ingenuity

Spy satellite technology originally commercialized by the mining industry is being used by archeologists to find and inventory 10,000 year old underwater mines in central America.

We’re going to take a look at those tools and discuss the algorithms which run them.

Sources cited during this episode include the following:

• The July 3rd, 2020 National Post article, “Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex.”

• The July 3rd, 2020 American Association for the advancement of Science (AAAS) Scientific Advances paper on "Paleoindian ochre mines in the submerged caves of the Yucatán Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico."

• The July 12th, 2019 Science Live post, "Space Archaeology Is a Thing. And It Involves Lasers and Spy Satellites."

• The 1998 National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine publication titled "People and Pixels; Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science." 

• The undated National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Ocean Service page titled "What is lidar?" Retrieved July 5th, 2020.

• The April 22nd, 2019 Joe Rogan Experience #1284, with Graham Hancock. 

• The May 25th, 2011 BBC News post, “Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images." 

• The November 2008 Ask Smithsonian post, "Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?"

• The June 17th, 2020 World Asia and India post, "500-year-old submerged temple resurfaces in Odisha's Nayagarh." 

• The January 30th, 2017 Wired post, “Want to Be a Space Archaeologist? Here's Your Chance.”

• The July 12th, 2015 Commercial Space blog post. "Did RADARSAT-2 Find HMS Erebus?"

• The May 11th, 2016 Christian Science Monitor post, "How Canadian teenager used space archaeology in hunt for lost Mayan city."

• The April 27th, 2017 Research Gate posted conference paper "Implementation of Synthetic Aperture Radar and Geoinformation Technologies in the Complex Monitoring and Managing of the Mining Industry Objects."

• The June 10th, 2020 Security Boulevard post, “Using Machine Learning for Threat Detection."

• The IMDB post for the 2002 Stephen Speilberg movie "Minority Report."

• The IMDB post for the1964 Stanley Kubrick movie "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

• The May/June 2011 Skeptical Inquirer post, "Anomaly Hunting."

• The November 2, 2016 Chycho post, "Anomalies, Prisons, and Geophysics: How Governments Use Data and How to Stop Them [ASMR]." 

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Host and Contributor - Brian Orlotti

Host and Contributor - Al Calder

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