All points on Earth have been imaged by satellites... many with topographic info on a small scale- here is the question....

If you had a handheld photo of a landscape could the topographic information from that photo be used to identify where it was taken, using satellite images? I think that may be why all of the post 9-11 videos from osama bin laden only show him in front of a rock wall...

I have found my childhood home on satellite images, I could even make out that our wood burning stove was burning when it was taken, and see that it was taken after we had cleared out a thick patch of wild plum shrubs... details were very clear...

It would take huge computing power but a photo of a landscape at ground level SHOULD be a fingerprint to identify it from sat info... I am willing to bet that this has at least been looked into....