Wednesday, May 29, 2013

STARTLING: What a Drone Can See From 17,000 Feet

Well, this is simultaneously fascinating and terrifying.

Rumors of an experimental 1.8-gigapixel surveillance video camera in development at DARPA -the ARGUS-IS- first surfaced in 2009.

But PBS this year got hold of some actual video feeds- and they are indeed chilling...

All it takes is one lone unit circling an area half the size of Manhattan (at cca 15-20,000 ft.) to provide comprehensive video surveillance of every single inch...

...They are running a program on the moving objects, meaning generating structured data out of the video, not merely displaying images. Just imagine drone-loving Dear Leader with a few hundred of these at his disposal...

And it doesn't even take the utmost tech to get this kind of resolution- this is what a drone equipped with this camera can image, record, and analyze at 17,000 ft...

That puts the prediction of 30,000 drones flying over American soil within the next seven years in perspective.

What could possibly go wrong?


4 comments:

K-Bob said...

Time to re-read Snow Crash and Diamond Age.

Sarthurk said...

What could go wrong?
Us not stopping this....maybe...?
Or sum idjit hiding in the corner of his house and trying to hide from the bad guys.

Anonymous said...

Microchips and GPS locators imbedded in human flesh will help them keep up with evil Tea Party 'terrorists' make sure they aren't gathering in groups of more than three or growing their own potatoes, lettuce and carrots, beef or Allah forbid, pork.

Anonymous said...

And...if anyone goes online to criticize Dear Leader, they can be zapped before they can type more than a few bytes.