Detailed, realtime satellite imagery, to verify convoy length?
There's a convoy of trucks heading for Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. News sources say it's on the order of a thousand trucks; social media says there's over 50 000 trucks, and that it stretches on for 400km.
I was wondering if there is a way to verify either of the claims. Is there a way I can see detailed satellite imagery with images from today?
The Project Owl discord had satellite imagery multiple times a day during the Kabul evacuation and continue to with the Russian military buildup along the Ukrainian border. You can ask them how they did it:
https://discord.gg/projectowl
If they ride at night, maybe you can try finding a free light dataset on Earth Engine Data Catalog. When I checked last year, the data were pretty recent I think.
Not quite realtime, but Planet has ~daily imagery of the world. If you give them enough money I suppose you could get closer to realtime.
Sounds like traffic cameras might be easier to use.
What are they protesting for?