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From: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: satellite pictures
Summary: Radar can see through sand.
Keywords: radar, satellite
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Date: 11 Jan 90 21:44:10 GMT
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In article <1523@castle.ed.ac.uk> ct@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Thornborrow) writes:
>	Can satellite pictures reveal buried ruins ? Has this
>been done much ?

I think they may be referring to Synthetic Aperture Radar images; i know these
can `see' through a few meters of sand and have found interesting things.