How A.I. Can Measure The Impact Of War In Ukraine

Unscripted and unedited, just raw sharing. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) isn't new, but now the secret is out. The Ukraine invasion has brought it to the forefront of news and social media. Now analysts at The Intel Lab are using their developed a deep learning algorithm (a sort of Artificial Intelligence / AI) to measure the impact on shipping. This is real-world analysis.

[@Seasonstobecheerful]

Brilliant ! Thanks for sharing, and feeding the hive mind with such worthy content.

[@Blakearmin]

Your videos are every bit as good as Millenium 7*, and you two are some of my favorite channels right up there with Explosions & Fire, Internet Comment Etiquette, PBS Spacetime, and Isaac Arthur.

[@ARGAR_GAMES]

There is nothing wrong with this mic. Really interesting info to be honest.

[@Puffalupagus360]

Your videos so good to watch that no matter the length they feel short.

[@ned900]

thats a superb mic and thank you for the info!

[@snower13]

I did ship detection work a couple years ago. And by that I mean I cleaned up what the algorithm found. Some times it was really bad.

[@Sugar_K]

amazing mr Sutton

[@lloydask]

Great video, I always learn so much from your videos. I must have crappy speakers because you mike always sounds ok to me.

[@Adombom]

Excellent video! Really cool example of OSINT "sensor fusion" - Mug

[@HISuttonCovertShores]

Glad it helped!

[@Sno4lfe]

Fantastic content 👌💯 but, what made that skid in from the starbord (?) side @05:37? That little thing made that big wake?

[@guidor.4161]

The sound quality is very good!

[@pattygman4675]

Why use not “coast watchers” that is people on coastal areas. Logging and reporting naval ship movements. Yes slower, but one more tool in the tool box.

[@HISuttonCovertShores]

They exist, more popularly called ship spotters. Some knowing, some unwitting. But they have limited sight, endurance and are geographically contained. In wartime they may be deemed as spies etc.

[@FirstDagger]

People are expensive.

[@pattygman4675]

@@FirstDagger Sure, but volunteers don’t need payment. A sense of duty to country, or doing something in their own small way. When added all together will make a difference in the bigger picture. If it were my country I would volunteer. As I am too old for front line duty. This would be my little contribution.

[@ned900]

@@pattygman4675 because we have AI and we need things to apply it to.

[@jovangrbic97]

The AIS inputs to sites like Marine Traffic already come from guys setting up an antenna and SDR radio on their balcony, and connected to the internet, receiving AIS ship locations and uploading it to the tracking sites. Much better than manual observation. All traffic sites depends on this type of data crowdsourcing, the same as the ADS-B aircraft tracking sites like flightaware. Sometimes paid subscriptions include satellite-received AIS/ADS-B, as some satellites receive and relay this data, usually for oceanic locations.

[@Archangelm127]

I have a spare mic and accoutrements sitting around that you're welcome to have. Not sure how to contact you (I don't use Twitter), but if you have a secure mailing address or something I'd be happy to ship the stuff at my expense. Should work with any system, USB plug-and-play stuff.

[@markbrown4442]

Well done. Really info5

[@_R-R]

OSINT is a very interesting field that not very many people know about. (Unscripted? No. Bestscripted? Yes.)

[@Daryl465]

So if China send military equipment to Russia at night these satellite can track them ?

[@kruelunusual6242]

If it was happening on the ocean…..why would they do that when China can sell them ore and raw materials above board in the open and Russia can make the weapons themselves?? I’m not even sure they would try to hide it if they did make weapons deals….

[@mmdirtyworkz]

Why would Russia need more equipment?

[@pat8988]

@@mmdirtyworkz HA HA HA !!! (Reading this in Nov. )

[@mmdirtyworkz]

@@pat8988 True. They needed help fighting nazis in ww2 as well, history repeats itself :)

[@jamieclarke321]

Yet another brilliant video mr Sutton

[@76dg15]

I never thought you could use SARS as a civilian, pretty cool

[@xntumrfo9ivrnwf]

Did anyone notice the singular ship a bit north and quite a bit west of the Kerch strait? Just above that curved bay or inlet (not sure what the correct phrase is). It was literally in the same spot on all 3 dates! Edit: it's there on all 4 dates!

[@danielmartin7838]

Very interesting

[@Tgspartnership]

some good information

[@stephendaedalos8970]

Can we buy the man a mic please.

[@Broken_dish]

can you please make a video about the Virginia class sub i keep hearing its so successful but i didnt notice much difference from the others other than it has a lower test depth witch seems like a disadvantage a video explaining what im missing here would be cool

[@Fish-ub3wn]

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[@johanbeatable]

When you'll get new mic, what will you say?

[@zacharyamory8342]

Very interesting. Thanks a lot!

[@ftffighter]

You sir are a YT God!

[@khimbittle7705]

Thank you, Very interesting.

[@cameronsinnett8117]

Cool video

[@joeaeroable]

Cmon lads let’s buy him a mic

[@pat8988]

That was very interesting to see all those radar hot spots on those ships in that photo. I wonder what US ships look like.

[@uavx8529]

Really quite cool work!

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

*Great video!*

[@andylarner3531]

Very interesting thank you very much

[@EyeKnowRaff]

OMG your mic sucks. Just taking the piss. I don't come here for the best audio quality, I'm here for the quality information. Keep up the good work.

[@paulroustan3643]

Keep using your mic, it’ll make your content OG

[@dugiejoness5197]

4:40 - Capella X-SAR is a US registered company and is subject to US restrictions regarding the minimum commercially available image resolution, which is 0.5m. But theoretically their satellites can reach a resolution of 1.8 cm for an area of 10 km x 10 km.

[@echo5delta]

Situational awareness with help from AI is such a game changer! “Man yells at clouds”

[@gzcwnk]

Very interesting. The ship to ship would potentially point at drug transfers, human trafficking also I assume.

[@victornichol1565]

this info is so cool

[@HAL_9001]

I've been really impressed with the way Ukrainian civilians are like an open-source OSINT network. Any time someone posts a picture of a Russian tanks they're got it pinpointed near instantly. I was amazed when I tried this with a picture of Spider-Tom and his girlfriend sitting in a restaurant and *knew instantly* this was in Boston. Just the feel of it told me I guess. After 10 or so minutes I found the street address and seats they were sitting in and direction the picture was taken; probable time of day and day of week as well. Spending a few more minutes looking back at weather data, I could likely have narrowed it to an exact date. Not that it's likely to matter, but a baby lemur was born in the Kyiv Zoo today. They named it Bayraktar, lol.

[@mmdirtyworkz]

lemurs are like animal comedians, like zelenski for humans :)

[@thesuit4820]

In the 21st century version of Project RYAN, one of the key signs is when HI Sutton has a scripted video.

[@engineeranonymous]

US restricts export of AI software/system that can be used to classify/train satellite imagery. You can only sell this kind of software to Canada without an export license. Export Control Classification Number ECCN 0D521 No. 1

[@HISuttonCovertShores]

If you are American using American satellites?

[@engineeranonymous]

@@HISuttonCovertShores As a non American, my experience is If there is a restriction is involved you will have no response to your requests. Its assumed that the US software might end up in wrong hands like Russia, China ... If you are a commercial firm you might get remote sensing as a service. Even then the data you receive might be tampered in order to protect state security. If you want to make sure you get the true data you need to have the complete end to end system. From satellites to analyzing software.

[@peterfireflylund]

This is something that is quite easy to build yourself.

[@engineeranonymous]

@@peterfireflylund Hi the software that you can use on ground station is relatively easy. Of course you will have data problems but if you can model your sensors you can augment the data or do pure simulation for training. The problem is the satellites. You need to build them in house. Like Planet Labs or Synspective are doing. Of course If you have worked on satellites before it might be easy for you but its hard for me :-) As a final note the latest Chinese video of Jilin-1 satellite tracking a F-22 in flight shows that AI processing on satellite data is a technology that no country can turn a blind eye on.

[@shmalevolokno]

is this video unscripted? please confirm two times more, at least, as i can"t make up my mind

[@wytrose4602]

Both are using Russia type military equipment how is any one going to tell them apart from each other. USA sent WWII type Soviet union type equipment . With a few America equipment.

[@nukkinfuts6550]

Set up a Patreon so we can buy you a new microphone ;p

[@volosat1y]

republic of adygea wtf is that?

[@AndrewSkow1]

You only diminish the potential reach of your channel by flippantly dismissing the idea of getting a real microphone. Audio quality is more important than anything you put on screen in terms of viewer retention through the length of the video. Google it.

[@steve-wu7jp]

We need more Ukraine videos 👍

[@paulroustan3643]

Too much propaganda coming out of Ukraine and Russia, most is fake and disinformation, we won’t find out the truth after the war and that only some of the truth.

[@stevenjohns7017]

Anyone in the UK know how many Vanguards have put to sea? I believe Tridents have been moved from the storage facility?

[@diggLincoln]

Ahhj it's fake af