Argentina using satellites to locate drug and human smugglers

NASA LAUNCH. The Argentine satellite SAC D, placed in orbit THIS YEAR. ITS IMAGES ALSO BE USED IN THE AREA OF SECURITY.
Satellites used against drug traffickers and trafficking Enlarge

If not enough is done from earth will have to try it from space. That seems to be the spirit of the agreement signed by the Ministry of National Security, through its owner, Nilda Garre, and Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, through which the National Commission on Space Activities (CONAE)-dependent relations Foreign-security area will provide the images of about 15 satellites that daily pass through Argentine territory.

Thus, the federal security forces have access to photos and satellite images from space to try to detect from clandestine airstrips where they land planes loaded with drugs to illegal plantings or alternative routes used by the asphalt pirate gangs or traffickers . Read Article-Spanish