Tangent question, I know of services like Planet Labs, Maxar... is the capability there now assuming you had money, where you could tag a ship from space and watch it travel (I know there is something like ADSB for ships) but would be interesting.

▲

sorenjan 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Planet labs has a solution specifically for ships.

https://www.planet.com/pulse/illuminate-the-dark-fleet-with-...

▲

notahacker 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's still at the "technical challenge to fuse data from AIS [ADSB for ships, complete with spoofing and transponders being turned off] to [generally] static images from multiple different sources" stage, at least unless you've got the budget for a video satellite to stick in a geostationary-ish orbit

	▲	ge96 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I also wasn't sure how good satellite image quality is where you can match a ship from above, maybe the pattern of the freight containers could help. And track I didn't indicate frequency, it's not per minute, but say hourly.