“DARPA developed the 1.8 gigapixel camera so it can record at 20,000 feet, from the Hummingbird UAV, scanning 25 square miles of ground in one shot. The detail is scary, with objects as small as six inches picked up. And it’s all done using the equivalent of 368 image sensors like that found in your mobile phone”.
And this is just phase one. Coming soon: the ‘ultimate home’ for ARGUS – the Solar Eagle UAV – capable of staying in the air for years at a time, transferring 600GB of data per second.
Watch the skies.
(Thanks Aaron McAllorum)
Well, where do you think Google Maps comes from.
Satellites?
Some of the imagery used by Google Maps/Earth, Bing Maps, etc. is from satellite, but most is from aerial surveys.
Its satellite. Just have to see the footprint of each squares to tell that the pics are from geo stationary satellite. In EU its mostly Geoeye Satellites.
Zoom in further and you’ll see that the imprint changes. Not all imagery is supplied by Satellites.
its ok dude you made a mistake dont worry :)
Keep one above a city 24/7. CCTV everywhere
But our privacy boo hoo
If you are doing something in Public that you don’t want people to see you probably should not be doing it in the first place!
Tell that to any dissident in any repressive regime ever (or a kettled protester in London or New York, for that matter).
Also – what does “in public” mean when you’ve got persistent aerial surveillance?
“Well sir, you knew that we had these drones, so why did you imagine that your back garden was a private space? If you’d wanted privacy, you should have put a roof up, eh?”
And let’s not forget that while the things taking the pictures are robots, the people controlling them or not. They’re just as venal, stupid, greedy, pervy, and susceptible to abuses of power as anyone else.
does this spell the end for “Stolen Bikes” on broadsheet
Yeah but over bowsie hotspots the ARGUS system would be invaluable. You could put it over a troubled housing estates and identify all the troublemakers. You could monitor them for months and develop better profiling on scummers who are a drain on society.
@Am I Still on This Island
That’s what we call classic circular logic. A conclusion derived from a premise based on the conclusion.
So there IS a term for that then.
This would be amazing. Not just for the security but for the traffic and for going outside and pulling a mooner for the world to see live!
That’s one sure way of catching the doggers.
Er.. I thought they wanted to be seen, that is kinda the point.
I howled :)
If the had two e could make giant 3d image’s. This would also be great as some sort of real time Google street view
MPC ftw!
As I once heard someone comment on ’1984′, “the only things Orwell didn’t properly predict were the year and Carlton Palmer getting capped by England”.
Ahem… Carlton Palmer’s cap was alluded to in Animal Farm when Boxer was brought off to the Knacker’s Yard. I don’t think he was revisiting the topic.
nice screengrab.
will this mean the end of BS’s “we don’t normally do this”?
Yes, this signals the end of crime as we know it.
But can it Instagram?
And this is 3 year old people …. http://www.darpa.mil/uploadedImages/Content/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/Autonomous_Real-time_Ground/Images/full/ARGUS_Mission14_Poster_12-06-0920(rev1)1.JPG
just imaging how much better it is now. There’s always a few years between what exist and when its told to public :)
the new one already has Sepia filter, you can see the lads stealing your car but not it looks ‘oldie worldie’
now even
Link cannot be found.
nice.
cloud days and night-time is when i’ll be mostly committing crimes from here on in.
Thermal and lo-light/night vision.
okay, so will be committing my more heinous crimes indoors so. Thanks for the heads up
or completely smeared in cold mud
“We believe Burns still has the bill hidden somewhere in his house, but all we’ve ascertained from satellite photos is that it’s not on the roof.”
Ah the Simpsons, is there any context in which they can’t be referenced?
Full drone use over US soil already approved by Congress
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=all
Now if only they could shoot up those pesky border drug runners , warring gangs in south central LA and Justin Bieber at whatever concert he is at.
When will people stop going on and on and on and on with the same story about these things that just keeps going on and on and on and on and on and on and on?
“objects as small as six inches”
Small?
Oh.
That guy is unnerving – creepy on all kinds of levels; voice, face action, gait …