Asking my readers for help

March 21, 2004

I would like to see if anyone out there can help me. As you know, the Government has not allowed aircraft to fly over opposition marches for quite a while. The reason is simple, someone could make a very good estimate of how many people go to them. For the last two weeks I have been looking for a satellite image of Caracas on Saturday March 6th., between say 11:30 PM and 4 PM, a day when I think the opposition managed to get a huge amount of people out there. The picture has to be high resolution, let’s say no more than 2 or 2.5 meters. I thought I had it nailed when I found this image (this is the low resolution version):



I found this image from the French satellite Spot, but there were two problems: First it says it was taken at 14:49 PM, but it does not say if this is Caracas time or Paris time. Second, once I placed it on the shopping cart, it would have cost me “only” 5400 Euros to purchase the high resolution version, somewhat more than I was willing to spend for this little research project. (It’s actually cool to compare this to the map below)


Thus, I appeal to my faithful readers: If you work in satellite image processing or related fields, or know someone that does, I would love it if you could get me (us) such an image and I am even willing to spend a little money, but not as much as the Spot people want. (I  do understand why they charge that much). Thanks.

This entry was posted on March 21, 2004 at 1:42 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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