Geolocation determined with background airplane noise

Apparently inaudible background noise from airplanes in a blurry video clip is enough to reveal your location within a hundred meters.

In the video above, Colsto uses Open-source intelligence (OSINT) to pull Doppler curves from a clip. He extrapolates speed and altitude from the curve and matches it with flight data. Then he produces a score to find the most likely flight and location.

“Something with literally zero visual clues could be located using this.”

He has also used background noise from thunder to find someone and made a custom text-based tool to geolocate a clip. The amount of data you can extract from a seemingly innocuous video on the internet continues to surprise.