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Old Mar 22, 2014, 7:24 am
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Originally Posted by greg5
The multi-spectral scanner, which could be useful, has a resolution of 8m, which means that anything it would detect would only show up as a few pixels.
If they are using that then hopefully a cluster of ~10 pixels will be enough to be 'unusual' - in the sense of being a relatively large number where you don't expect many at all.

Maybe they already used that to speed up the search of the visible spectrum, which I assume the released images to be? Are both arrays used at same time (as in within a small number of minutes)?
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