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Anaraxes · 11-22-2020, 08:34 AM

Commercially available civilian-accessible satellite imagery is probably more like mid-late 80s or 1990s. (Landsat from the early 80s; SPOT 1 launched in 1986.) Government had been doing so a couple of decades longer, but I don't know whether the PCs are supposed to have that kind of access.

There's also aerial photography, pretty easy to accomplish after WW II. Probably not easily-accessible databases of random places in the Western mountain ranges, but the PCs perhaps the resources to contract the work if they know in general where they're looking and just need to pin down details.

11-22-2020, 08:34 AM	#5
Anaraxes Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Background : When did 'Last Cowboy' die ? Commercially available civilian-accessible satellite imagery is probably more like mid-late 80s or 1990s. (Landsat from the early 80s; SPOT 1 launched in 1986.) Government had been doing so a couple of decades longer, but I don't know whether the PCs are supposed to have that kind of access. There's also aerial photography, pretty easy to accomplish after WW II. Probably not easily-accessible databases of random places in the Western mountain ranges, but the PCs perhaps the resources to contract the work if they know in general where they're looking and just need to pin down details.