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What a Drone Can See

 

Smile for the cameras!! ('Big Brother' watching us.)

 

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> What can a Drone See From 17,500 Feet, (over 3 miles) up?

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>Are you ready to be awed?

>Watch

this short video and see what a drone can ‘see’ from

altitude.

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>This is cutting edge photography,

and then some .

>The size of the area being covered and the high

quality of the imagery is incredible!

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>This imagery is

being taken from 17,500 feet up.

>That is roughly equal to 3-1/3

miles.

>Objects as small as 6” can be

seen.

>Impressive.

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHrZgS-Gvi4

 

 

 

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Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel peace prize 2014

 

 

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaigner shot on school bus in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, has won the 2014 Nobel peace prize.

Malala won along with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children’s rights activist.

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Malala, now 17, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman two years ago in Pakistan after coming to prominence for her campaigning for education for girls.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/wins-nobel-peace-prize-2014

 

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What a Drone Can See

 

Smile for the cameras!! ('Big Brother' watching us.)

 

>

> What can a Drone See From 17,500 Feet, (over 3 miles) up?

>

>Are you ready to be awed?

>Watch

this short video and see what a drone can ‘see’ from

altitude.

>

>

>

>This is cutting edge photography,

and then some .

>The size of the area being covered and the high

quality of the imagery is incredible!

>

>This imagery is

being taken from 17,500 feet up.

>That is roughly equal to 3-1/3

miles.

>Objects as small as 6” can be

seen.

>Impressive.

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHrZgS-Gvi4

 

 

 

:eek:

 

The part I don't understand is why they used industry-produced camera sensors in a large mosaic, instead of spending $4.5 billion developing a new single sensor that did the same thing as the $18k alternative... doesn't make any sense! :spin: Are you sure this was a DARPA project??

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The part I don't understand is why they used industry-produced camera sensors in a large mosaic, instead of spending $4.5 billion developing a new single sensor that did the same thing as the $18k alternative... doesn't make any sense! :spin: Are you sure this was a DARPA project??
Sometimes folks make good decisions... :lol:

 

Pretty neat capabilities - and you know that if they are releasing info on it now, there's probably something better available (or they downplayed it's capability) that's already deployed...

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Drones like that one have been around for quite some time.... most countries have versions of things like that. The predator gets lots of attention, but it's by no means the only thing out there. For combat they make a lot of sense - why risk a live pilot when you don't have to?

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This is some fantastic cinematography, and also an INCREDIBLY eerie film. Those long shots of the front of the aircraft - particularly of the intake. It's like it's sitting there. Watching. Analyzing. Plotting... Waiting.

 

 

Some of the most dangerous 4.5 acres of real estate you'll find anywhere. That they can not only recover a UAV on that deck, but then maneuver it for storage, and reposition it for launch, from thousands of miles away, is quite a technical accomplishment. Kudos to the home team.

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Drones like that one have been around for quite some time.... most countries have versions of things like that. The predator gets lots of attention, but it's by no means the only thing out there. For combat they make a lot of sense - why risk a live pilot when you don't have to?

 

Plus, they can be designed to a much higher G-load performance factor that would completely wipe-out a human pilot were they to be strapped into it.

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