Four raw satellite radar passes over the Giza plateau, purchased by this newspaper

Origin: A commercial satellite operator
Dated: April 2026
Extent: 4 pages
Status: accepted
Redactions: None.

Chain of custody

Bought at the commercial rate, $18,400, on an ordinary licence with no restrictions on republication. The invoice is held with the scenes. We bought raw passes rather than processed images specifically so that the processing could be done twice, independently, by people we chose and paid.

Held by: They Buried; published in full and reusable by anyone

Excerpt

SCENE 3 · ACQUISITION 2026-04-11T03:17Z
  mode ............ spotlight
  look angle ...... 34.2°
  polarisation .... HH
  processing ...... NONE (raw single-look complex)

  [processed by F. Bracciolini-Adeyemi 2026-05-30, report attached]
  [processed by W. Okonkwo-Haas  2026-06-14, report attached, disagrees at §5]

Transcribed by the data desk. Line breaks follow the original. Bracketed matter is ours.

Editor's note

Both processing reports are held with the scenes, including the one that calls the most widely repeated feature a processing artefact. Publishing only the agreeing report would have made a better story and a worse document.

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