Drone Spying Capabilities Are About To Take Another Huge Leap

[dixiegrrrrl]

The fleet of drones that police our skies are about to get an upgrade.

Developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and BAE Systems, The $18.5 million Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System (ARGUS) program will be the most advanced surveillance system in the sky.

Once attached under an unmanned aerial vehicle, an ARGUS camera can patrol at 17,500 feet and send back high resolution images of 1.8 gigapixels.

The images are so crisp and clear that an analyst can actually see what color shirt a subject is wearing.

http://www.businessinsider.com/darpa-argus-mega-camera-most-detailed-surveillance-camera-in-world-2013-1



the article links to a slideshow, which is a must -see.
One pic says this:
The camera uses a technique known as Wide Area Persistent Stare, and its capabilities are equivalent to having 100 Predator droneslooking down at a medium-sized city at once.
The system can open up 65 windows at once, and see objects as small as six inches square on the ground.

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Cameras, cameras everywhere.

The better to see you with, my dear.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Sieg Heil The Police State

We're all Germans now

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Not only that, but a PERMANENT orbiting camera drone...

it isn't until halfway into the slide show that they show their plans for a permanent orbiting drone that can scan miles of an area,
with close up ability tht not even Google could have dreamed of.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. You know, tere are good sides to drones

Like assessing a hazmat incident, flying over a fire with thermal cameras to look for hotspots, after a quake for search and rescue, even wild land search and rescue.

This...not so much.

[Robb]

4. Six inches?

[Tx4obama]

5. Drone was used when that man killed bus driver & held little boy in his bunker a month or so ago.

There are times when drones do come in handy.

[rhett o rick]

7. Our infrastructure is two trillion in debt, we are cutting public education, cutting support for

the poor, our vets and our seniors. Who is authorizing these expenditures?

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Those who will need that capability.

[Monkie]

8. the video with the software in action is "must see"

its a pretty old video, and this was only a experiment with cellphone camera sensors, once the real deal is used like the sensors from professional camera's they will need much fewer drones to cover much larger areas. the software they are using to track is "amazing", i posted a similar link a week or so ago.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Because all Americans are terrorists. At least, that's the message. n/t