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para_parolutoday at 7:36 PM1 replyview on HN

We may have enough satellite imagery to build visual place recognition system. Geoguesst but for tanks


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toast0today at 7:55 PM

There's a bunch of stuff for using terrain to figure out where you are [1], generally used for missiles and planes though, not sure if works well from a ground perspective.

On the ground, you might be able to use the broadcast positioning system: more or less GPS but instead of satellites, the broadcast signal comes from existing TV towers... TV towers may well be targetted at some point in a war, but there's likely more valuable targets at the beginning of a war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

[2] https://www.gps.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/CGSICMeeting...

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