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reminds me of a radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/ here's the summary, > In 2004, when casualties
by drhodes 11y ago
reminds me of a radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/
here's the summary,
> In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an idea. With a small plane and a 44 mega-pixel camera, they figured out how to watch an entire city all at once, all day long. Whenever a bomb detonated, they could zoom onto that spot and then, because this eye in the sky had been there all along, they could scroll back in time and see - literally see - who planted it. After the war, Ross McNutt retired from the airforce, and brought this technology back home with him. Manoush Zomorodi and Alex Goldmark from the podcast “Note to Self” give us the low-down on Ross’s unique brand of persistent surveillance, from Juarez, Mexico to Dayton, Ohio. Then, once we realize what we can do, we wonder whether we should.
- nxzero 11y agoPoint of Origin (POO) analysis believe is the tech term.
- zodiakzz 11y agoFascinating.. we should try this in Pakistan.
- woodman 11y agoRadar has been used to do continuous ground surveillance since the 60s [0]. Most people associate it with anti-armor, but it was originally used to track humans beneath the jungle canopy. Systems had been developed to collect and integrate that data for event analysis long before its application in Iraq. Ross McNutt is simply selling a product, and cameras are easier to sell than radar sensors. [0] https://www.ll.mit.edu/publications/journal/pdf/vol12_no2/12_2tacticalradars.pdf https://www.ll.mit.edu/publications/journal/pdf/vol12_no2/12...