search location by photo from twitter
GEOINT, or geospatial intelligence – is the process of using and analyzing imagery and geospatial information to describe, evaluate, and visualize physical features and georeference activities on Earth.
After downloading the original image, the author began to highlight geotags that could be useful in identifying the area, take another look at the image and think about how many notable objects there are…
Geotags from the image:
Pink: the colors of the beach umbrellas are the same, probably this is the case with all the umbrellas on the beach, we take this into account and move on.
Blue: In the photo we can see the sand, it is golden in color because it contains a low percentage of iron and when oxidized it becomes orange/gold. In addition, there are large rocks scattered on the beach, possibly due to the nearby volcanoes.
Red: In the background of the photograph you can see mountains, a very important geotag.
After analyzing the geotags, the author of the investigation went to the Twitter profile of this guy, who knows, there might be some information about the location.
Hmm, we have a country with 2500 km of coastline, how to conduct searches in such cases? And this is the very situation in which ingenuity decides, because open source intelligence is not about stupidly collecting information from various aggregators.
The author of the investigation dumped all the work on Google, entering in the search line “Beach destinations in Panama” the search engine in this case will give the most popular beaches in Panama, beaches in Panama City can be immediately excluded, since the sand is much lighter than in the original image, the same with the San Blas Islands.
Of all the ones that fit the description – Taboga Island, well, let's focus on that one, the color of the sand is perfectly similar to the original image, it seems we are on the right track!!
Remember, I paid attention to the red geotag and marked the mountain on the horizon, this is how the author tried to check the exact side of the beach.
Google Earth helped him with this, thanks to its 3D viewing function.
Some of the most important geotags in the form of mountains and umbrellas have been confirmed.
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