"Rise of the Drones"

[Cebu_4_2]

Published on Jan 25, 2013
A PBS' "Nova" program on January 23, entitled "Rise of the Drones," featured Dr. John Antoniades, technical group director for ISR Exploitation Technologies in the Technology Solutions business area. The show explored the cutting edge technologies that are writing a new chapter in aviation history, including ARGUS-IS, or the Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System, which flies aboard an unmanned helicopter. Developed collaboratively by Technology Solutions and ISR Solutions, this 1.8-Gigapixel camera has the most powerful real-time, high-resolution video sensor, enabling unprecedented capability in finding, tracking and monitoring events in real time.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=13BahrdkMU8#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=13BahrdkMU8#!

[collector]

Satan's all seeing eye - watching over the subjects in his kingdom 24/7
What a free country this has become

[Cebu_4_2]

Fish in a bowl.

[JDRock]

Puuull!! - bang!

[gunDriller]

there was an article recently in the tech media about super-sensitive CCD's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OQpYfT5P_ig#!

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-canon-mm-full-frame-cmos-sensor.html


basically, the sensor is sensitive enough to get a photo of someone's face - from the light put out by a stick of incense.

my guess is, the drone engineers have had this technology for a while. so that for them, the light of the full moon - or a half moon - is plenty bright for many imaging & recon tasks.


possible defense - super bright lights pointed up at the sky.