From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 12:42:37 MST
For those of us who are having trouble picking out the
details in the Pentagon security camera images, here
are some helpful links:
An annotated photo with arrows and such:
< http://www.planetkyoto.com/nils/photos/pentagon.html >
An overhead view showing the position of the camera and
its field of view:
< http://www.kokogiak.com/pentagon2.html >
Another annotated image with arrows and such:
< http://www.aldark.com/images/stebain/pGonPlane.jpg >
These images show that other people see what Dave
Palmer has described:
> In the first one, before the crash, look just above the
> yellow box on the right side of the image, and you will
> see the vertical stabilizer and rear tail of the plane,
> which appears to be banked slightly to the right. Note
> that they are missing in the following frames.
As to Bill Shannon's question about the imagery:
> Uh huh...certainly the Pentagon would have "state-of-the-art"
> type video no?
> Or would they perhaps be no better than the corner Clark station?
Here he's definitely stepping out of his depth. As Dave
Palmer pointed out, there's no real need to put high-quality
surveillence cameras everywhere in the Pentagon.
What was released is on par with what a lot of economarts
have. It's not as simple as replicating the corner store.
The Pentagon is huge. According to the Pentagon web site,
the building alone has 6,636,360 square feet of floor area.
That's the same as almost 4000 typical corner stores. For
a comparison, there are only about 5700 7-11 stores in the
whole of North America.
And that's not even including the interior courtyard or
the exterior lawn (where the plane was). Total land area
is 583 acres. Covering that all with high quality video
cameras probably couldn't be justified in any budget.
It seems likely that these were stills taken from a
security system that stores the images with lossy
compression. The company I work for uses such a system.
There are video cameras covering much of the building's
exterior, but at about 1/4 VGA resolution, and with jpeg
compression. Watching the cameras' live feeds shows images
of about the same quality as the Pentagon photos that were
released. The stills are recorded on a hard drive array,
and only output to videotape if necessary (though, of course,
they still have pretty low resolution).
--John Hazelton
California, USA
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