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Chasing Shadows: Geolocate Images with Bellingcat's Shadow Finder Tool
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/08/22/shadow-geolocate-geolocation-locate-image-tool-open-source-bellingcat-measure/Chasing Shadows: Geolocate Images with Bellingcat's Shadow Finder Tool
August 22, 2024
Researchers often spend hours poring over photos, scouring satellite images and sifting through street view.
But what if there was another way to quickly narrow down your search area?
Bellingcat’s new Shadow Finder Tool, developed with our Discord community, helps you quickly narrow down where an image was taken, by reducing your search area from the entire globe to just a handful of countries and locations.
If you know the date and time an image was taken, and can make accurate measurements of the height of an object and the length of its shadow, you can identify the ring of possible areas where the image was taken.
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August 22, 2024
Researchers often spend hours poring over photos, scouring satellite images and sifting through street view.
But what if there was another way to quickly narrow down your search area?
Bellingcat’s new Shadow Finder Tool, developed with our Discord community, helps you quickly narrow down where an image was taken, by reducing your search area from the entire globe to just a handful of countries and locations.
If you know the date and time an image was taken, and can make accurate measurements of the height of an object and the length of its shadow, you can identify the ring of possible areas where the image was taken.
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