this is incredible !
keep looking up ! end times they are a coming!
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/8...ost-advanced-surveillance-drone/#.USlYOWeQPth
Watch This: View from the Worldâs Most Advanced Surveillance Drone
By Breanna Draxler | January 29, 2013 10:58 am
If you want to see scary science fiction in real life, watch this video. For the first time, the U.S. Department of Defense gives us a glimpse into its new surveillance systemâone that puts George Orwellâs to shame. This big brother is capable of some serious spying, and his name is Argus.
Argus is actually a pretty clumsy acronym: Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System. But thereâs nothing clumsy about its capabilities. Argus has the worldâs highest resolution camera, which records 1.8 billion pixels in real-time. The sensor itself is classified, but the DoD gave PBS a bit of a teaser for the NOVA special âRise of the Drones.â
In the video Yiannis Antoniades, an engineer contracted to design the sensor, shows us an Argus-eye view of the world. Once mounted on a drone, Argus can fly around and record video from an altitude of 17,500 feet. The view is breathtaking. And weâre talking the take-your-breath-away-because-this-is-so-frightening kind of breathtaking. While keeping tabs on a 15-square-mile swath of ground, Argus allows operators to zoom in on up to 65 different people in real-time. It can see you walking down the sidewalk. It can see what youâre wearing. It can see what youâre doing with your arms. It can see when you stop to tie your shoe. Getting this kind of resolution from this altitude is unprecedented.
Antoniades designed the sensor based on a technology most of us know wellâcell phone cameras. His sensor is actually a mosaic of 368 of these chips. No other camera in the world has such a high resolution. In a single day it can record and archive 1 million terabytes of data. Thatâs the equivalent of 5,000 hours of HD footage. Plus this data is saved and searchable. Antoniades cannot disclose whether or not Argus is already in use.
Camera-equipped drones are nothing newâtheyâve been around since the 90s. So how much of an improvement is this? Well, in order to cover as much ground as this single camera, you would need 100 Predatorsâthe previous generation of drones.
But if you want to see the sensor itself, youâre out of luck. The device remains covered by a tarp in the video. âYou get to look at pretty plastic curtains,â jokes Antoniades.
keep looking up ! end times they are a coming!
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/8...ost-advanced-surveillance-drone/#.USlYOWeQPth
Watch This: View from the Worldâs Most Advanced Surveillance Drone
By Breanna Draxler | January 29, 2013 10:58 am
If you want to see scary science fiction in real life, watch this video. For the first time, the U.S. Department of Defense gives us a glimpse into its new surveillance systemâone that puts George Orwellâs to shame. This big brother is capable of some serious spying, and his name is Argus.
Argus is actually a pretty clumsy acronym: Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System. But thereâs nothing clumsy about its capabilities. Argus has the worldâs highest resolution camera, which records 1.8 billion pixels in real-time. The sensor itself is classified, but the DoD gave PBS a bit of a teaser for the NOVA special âRise of the Drones.â
In the video Yiannis Antoniades, an engineer contracted to design the sensor, shows us an Argus-eye view of the world. Once mounted on a drone, Argus can fly around and record video from an altitude of 17,500 feet. The view is breathtaking. And weâre talking the take-your-breath-away-because-this-is-so-frightening kind of breathtaking. While keeping tabs on a 15-square-mile swath of ground, Argus allows operators to zoom in on up to 65 different people in real-time. It can see you walking down the sidewalk. It can see what youâre wearing. It can see what youâre doing with your arms. It can see when you stop to tie your shoe. Getting this kind of resolution from this altitude is unprecedented.
Antoniades designed the sensor based on a technology most of us know wellâcell phone cameras. His sensor is actually a mosaic of 368 of these chips. No other camera in the world has such a high resolution. In a single day it can record and archive 1 million terabytes of data. Thatâs the equivalent of 5,000 hours of HD footage. Plus this data is saved and searchable. Antoniades cannot disclose whether or not Argus is already in use.
Camera-equipped drones are nothing newâtheyâve been around since the 90s. So how much of an improvement is this? Well, in order to cover as much ground as this single camera, you would need 100 Predatorsâthe previous generation of drones.
But if you want to see the sensor itself, youâre out of luck. The device remains covered by a tarp in the video. âYou get to look at pretty plastic curtains,â jokes Antoniades.
