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From a previous comment of mine: Gorgon Stare was featured in PBS Nova Rise of the Drones (2013) Skip to 30m mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_T45UG1-o
by kefs 7y ago
From a previous comment of mine:
Gorgon Stare was featured in PBS Nova Rise of the Drones (2013)
Skip to 30m mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_T45UG1-o?t=30m29s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_T45UG1-o?t=30m29s
- avip 7y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_T45UG1-o&t=30m29s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_T45UG1-o&t=30m29s
- jcims 7y agoThere's also an excellent RadioLab episode about it: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/eye-sky https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/eye-sky If you didn't worry about all of the potential for abuse, the ability it provides to help solve crime is pretty compelling.
- MR4D 7y agoWow - I’d heard about the capability before, but actually seeing it in video is like watching Terminator - fun but eerie at the same time. Thanks for the great link (and also for automatically setting it to the 30 minute mark).
- brohee 7y agoThey say that they acquire one million terrabyte a day? Was it a journalist mistake? It sounds like really a lot for 2013, the budgets must be huge...
- bronco21016 7y agoI haven’t done any math on 1.8 billion pixel video feed but I agree. There’s not enough radio bandwidth even for one drone to beam down over a million TB/day.
- jandrewrogers 7y agoThe raw storage density of a high-end sensing drone was approaching a petabyte even back then, so it is a plausible number if you have a large drone fleet. This roughly matches available COTS flash storage in ultra-dense form factors at the time. Live streams are likely going to be an extract of the captured data but you can always pull the storage array when it lands.