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Additional Notes: Estimative Language and Copyrights
This document uses estimative language to express uncertainties associated with analytic observations and analytic judgements. Analytic observations are any object identifications based on analysis of geospatial data and/or information. Analytic judgements refer to interpretations of observations or sets of observations as broader statements. The specific estimative language used corresponds to Jabbour and Babiarz’s The Geospatial Mindset, Toolset, and Skillset: Introductory Principles and Practices.
This is a non-commercial research document about the People’s Republic of China’s Lop Nur Nuclear Weapons Test Site (2023). Copyright © Renny Babiarz, PhD. All satellite imagery in this document Copyright © Maxar (used via ESRI Worldview Imagery), Planet (used with permission), and Satellogic (used with permission).