Geolocate an Image Using Shadows - Let’s Geolocate #4
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Learn how to pinpoint exact locations from photographs with this tutorial on image geolocation using shadows.
This detailed guide is perfect for enthusiasts, professionals, and anyone curious about enhancing their geolocation skills, offering step-by-step instructions on using shadows to help reveal the precise location where a photo was taken, or simply using the shadows to make that arduous geolocation work just a little bit easier. Whether you're a photographer looking to trace the origins of a mysterious photo, an adventurer recreating historical treks based on old images, or an OSINT analyst gathering intelligence through imagery, this video will hopefully help you with the tools and techniques used by geolocation experts.
In this tutorial, we will dive deep into the science of shadow analysis in images, teaching you how to:
- Interpret shadows for geolocation insights
- Use reference points like mountains and landmarks to narrow down search areas
- Apply practical tips and tricks to improve your geolocating accuracy
The tutorial is not just about the theory; it's a hands-on guide that encourages viewers to practice alongside, using examples and exercises to solidify your understanding of image-based geolocation. By the end of this video, you'll have a firm grasp of how to use shadows and environmental features to uncover the hidden stories behind a photograph or a video. In this session, we look at how to geolocate an image, with the help of shadows that might be present in the image. This tutorial is specifically helpful for when you are trying to find the location of an image, or video, and are able to see shadows and have a rough understanding of the area.
This episode is an addition to the 'Let's Geolocate' series, designed for both beginners and advanced users interested in the fascinating world of OSINT and IMINT techniques.
If you are watching this tutorial, and want to follow along, you can easily give this geolocation challenge a go by using the image on this link: Zaidalshalif/stat...
The tools used in this OSINT tutorial are Google Earth Pro, Image Reverse Search and Suncalc. If you would like a further breakdown on these OSINT tools and techniques, check out the following links to other free open source investigative tutorials I have published:
OSINTAtHome Playlist: • OSINT At Home - Tutori...
Google Earth Pro Tutorial: • OSINT At Home #16 - My...
Chronolocation tutorial (how to find out when an image was taken using shadows) • OSINT At Home #8 - Cal...
Geolocation tutorial (how to find where a photo or video was taken) • OSINT At Home #4 - Ide...
Image Reverse Search tutorial: • OSINT at Home #20: Fou...
TOOLS
Google Earth Pro (desktop): www.google.com/earth/about/ve...
Suncalc: www.suncalc.org/#/27.6936,-97...
CREDITS FOR THIS VIDEO
Google Earth satellite imagery
Related websites and social media platforms for the purpose of finding the sites
Top Gun Footage: • Top Gun: Maverick (202...
Music: Tea Time by Ofshane, Rinse Repeat by DivKid - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Allways check meta data on pictures first. Sometimes they contain exact longitude/lattitude from camera and exact time stamps.
Shadows will give precise direction if you know local time. Estimate shadow lengths in relation to object height. Humen are ideal because they tend to balance perfectly vertical with known height (5 to 6 ft). The picture was probably taken +/- 3h around noon as sun is high and shadows are short in relation to the object height. That's were date/season comes in handy, too.
And sometimes an old fashioned globe and a flash light can help you visualizing.
And check for moon on daylight, either. Depending on date, time it must be in view or musn't.
Old News there, Vice "I'm With John Mcafee right now, and heres our GPS in image ExIF" News. ;]
I always thought about finding the latitude of a pic that had a Dish TV type satellite dish in it, pointing to the Clarke belt.
Yeah we do that when playing GeoGuessr!
Are you familiar with the Military History magazine 'After the Battle'? Published in the UK from early 1970s until late last year. They always did a great job of matching WW2 photo locations to the same spots postwar. Plus great use of detailed road atlases . And that was decades before GE. Its even better to track like you just have of various battlefields or just places in a current news story.
How would you begin with photos that didn't have the city/country already associated with the picture? Seems like that info posted with the images did the majority of the work.
Given how high the sun was in the sky for the pictures in the video, you can already conclude that it must have been pretty close to the equator.
If you have a timestamp for the photo, and some visual way to actually measure shadow angles, you could get latitude and longitude.
@@arooobine Yeah, if you have information you don't have which would allow you to solve the puzzle, you can solve the puzzle.
Well it was not so much shadow as supporting terrain on the photo, also you could use drawing straight line between two distant object in mountain range, adjusting angle you could get exact pin point.
I use similar techniques to figure out where Itchy Boots videos were filmed. It is easy to glean basic estimate of latitude IF you can discover high noon and season otherwise it can be a wide band of possibility.
Noraly!!!!!!
Power lines have different structures at angle points in the line. Those points will have a more substantial or reinforced pole or structure. For tower structures it often a 4 leg structure where the linear structure will have two. For pole supports there will be an anchor pole at the angle point or several anchors that bisect the angle. I saw that angle point and then noticed that in the background of the photo the closest structure was a 4 legged structure but all the ones going away were two legged.
@MrBen its amazing to have this skill. Looking for role in Osint and love to have the opportunity because without proper task and works learning is not possible
Thank you 🙏
I'd appreciate a list of the most useful OSINT apps (as Google extensions or otherwise) - would you PLEASE list them?
Many thanks!
Looking at the shadows, I would suppose the time is around noon, the sun almost all the way to the south (up in the sky), so the mountains to the north, lining west-east almost
this barely used shadows at all. this was just a reverse image search that told you the exact region the photo was in...
i thought everybody does this kind of things in their teenage years, its a basic stalker gathering info.
Nope just you my guy lol
Mind your word your FBI agent is watching
Nah during my teens you could only stalk people in person. Maybe a little bit over the phone, until it was left off the hook.
What's that mean? Oh, ask ChatGPT.
@@tehmtbz
that means you're old as f, That means you're a creeper, a persistent one at least. Please don't tell me you're the kind that drive around looking for a prey at night 😔.
@@AbdulKarim-hz4pzit was really just an opportunity for a joke...I'm not even 40 years old.
Excellent...! I wonder how difficult it would be if you only had the shadows & NOTHING else...? 🤔👍
Good question!
I suppose if you got a peek at someone's watch, or a clock on a wall, that would narrow it-down... 🤔
@@Bendobrown some missile navigation use this technique
The picture darker clothes (img1) has dark unique rock layout on it's middle left and checking the other pic, w/ lighter clothes (img2) is a large cluster of rocks in the same colour as the other dark unique rocks and in fact that clusters rightmost ~10-20% match to our dark unique rock layout we seen on the far left middle of img1.
15.52864° N, 45.17166° E
impressive !
Thank you!
Cool video, what do you think of drawing lines to try to triangulate a more exact position. Like trying to line up the power lines or something.
That’s a great idea! I usually do that, but I didn’t want to mislead with an entirely narrow area, and am trying to make sure to ‘understate’ the findings - just in case folks get the wrong idea and start assuming you can do that process and conclude down to the metre.
Could have marked a couple of bearing points to the pylons and other features. Anyway got me subbed.
I found the album photo locations that are secret with this technique:))
cool cool.
did the image have meta data to corroborate ?
Everyone scrubs ExIF data for safety reasons (and very very likely saves that 'scrubbed' data if not the entire original image, linked to their own local copy for possible future analysis by admins, etc.. Well everyone scrubs except Vice News and then only when posting from Reporters in top secret locations..
So was just thinking you could have found a close grid point (within 10 to 100 meters) by using resection(two known points to find one unknown) like in the military using an Azmith. i just don't know how to incorporate that with Google Earth.
Like a back bearing? Yeah, I’ve done that when I was in the military. But for this, I didn’t want to mislead with a specific set of coordinates - keeping the limitations in there as I wasn’t able to narrow down the exact location accurately until I found that outcrop of rocks.
How hard is it to get a remote junior OSINT job without college degree?
Actually quite straightforward:
- find a topic you are passionate about
- do verifications like geolocations, mapping and investigations
- write up your results and publish them on medium and Twitter
- contribute to a news issue by writing up your topics on subjects of interest
- ask for a freelance gig as an open source investigator
- go full time.
@@Bendobrown thank you for taking the time to answer
nice, make a video about opsec at home
That’s a really good one. Thank you 🙏
OMG!!!!!!!
This is some CIA style shit. Impressive
Minecraft hack works irl too
Bro the first tweet had the exact location
I would have worked backwards from a city that had a generator and worked back to a mountain
dont let this vid get in the hands of the bad guys
so tell me what he is talking about or what he is doing
Is this a doxxing series
s/o yt algo
Fantastic method of busting faked moon and mars photos too.
the homies aint safe no more
gangstalkmaxxing
can you find my TV remote?
I thought this would be a video on finding the lat/long based on the time and shadows.
Nope, he's just waffling on for 21 minutes after being literally told where it was.
Nice click bait title
Use of shadows was very least.
Title is misleading this hardly used shadows at all.
I feel like you made that harder than it had to be.
The easier method,
Step 1: Take the image into MS Paint.
Step 2: Draw the text, "THIS GUY HAS OIL" with an arrow pointing to the guy.
Step 3: Send to George Bush.
Step 4: Watch the news.
“Flat Earthers” must have this 😂
Where do these Chinese radar jamming satellites get all this power from I wonder? It's just propaganda. To quote the T-800, "it doesn't wauherk dat vayh".
Misuse of “synonymous”. Look it up.
How are we going to explain this to flat earth people 😂😂😂
fake