haha, I wish , this is my first OSINT challenge to solve tho

do u mean the whole work ? I spent at first 3 "whole" days in research, trial and error trying different methods and scripts, like for example tried the depth estimation to build upon it, failed many times till I gave up then came back after a week and spent another 4 days till succeeded then the refining, cleaning and organizing of all of that, also structuring and writing the blog, took about another 3 days

you can say that total is ~10 days of work

haha : "write like a non-native English speaker"

man, Im actually non native speaker xDD

"replace you for u" ???? what ?!

really thank u John, I felt disappointed after those comments, someone below said that the pangram is against my text, I doubted myself and even went to online pangram : https://pangramaidetector.org/

spent literally half an hour copying each single section and paragraph (removed the code and Katex) and literally all the results are "0% AI-generated text" or max 15%

glad u liked it :D

thaaank u man, I really appreciate ur comment

I tried to use the sun info , but honestly I couldn't at all,

thx for the tip

It'd probably be hard to do directly/algorithmically, but the shadows from the trees is what I was looking for visually.

haha, thanks :D I was hesitant to whether write it or not, but I really really despise llm generated posts and blogs and im glad someone appreciated it

Great content too generally. Without the disclaimer I find myself less engaged with the content knowing it could be an LLM hallucination and am ready to eject at any moment.

btw Micronesia is _not_ a country!

Micronesia is, too, a country. Referring to the Federated States of Micronesia as "Micronesia" is just as legitimate as referring to the USA as "America".

I’ve been to Marshall Islands, Kiribati, and FSM but never heard FSM called “Micronesia;” usually when people refer to Micronesia they’re referring the cultural region inclusive of FSM and the other two I mentioned, among others.

That’s cool, didn’t realize that slang existed, today I learned, thanks!

ok, if u came with the whole conclusion by only this line, ok , but to answer u, ( I hate to justify myself , but have to ) I started writing the blog after I started solving another challenge from gralhix : https://gralhix.com/list-of-osint-exercises/osint-exercise-0...

and the part of the solution came from the metadata, the camera model, you can check urself, so when I came back to write the blog, it just came by flow,

yea thank u, that's another part, but mainly it would hard although knowing that, because you need to know elevation of the drone or the camera, which is also extremely difficult (I already mentioned that in the blog)

The camera make and model wouldn't tell you the lens parameters. The EXIF would, but that was already covered in the triplet.

It does if you google the make and model to find out the lens parameters (assuming it isn't a fancy camera with interchangeable lenses)