Yes we can.
Posted on 05/28/2010 12:39:50 AM PDT by Cardhu
The camera was already trained on the two insurgents before the people watching the monitors had even spotted them.
As they parked their vehicles and removed a large package from the back, it zoomed in and followed them.
The two men moved across a patch of vegetation that made them trickier to see, so the surveillance monitor automatically switched to thermal imaging and followed them closely as they tried to conceal themselves behind a building.
The suspicious pair were in fact actors. This was an experiment.
But the imaging forms part of what the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) says will be used by soldiers within five years - a package of surveillance systems that can recognise insurgents or terrorists.
This high resolution imaging with in-built software to detect and follow the fake insurgents as they planned their covert meeting, was one of the technologies tested by DSTL during what it described as a "cops and robbers" style trial.
DSTL, which develops and tests the latest technologies for the Ministry of Defence, had members of its staff "act out" insurgent-like behaviour, while developers and and engineers took on the role of the "good guys", pursuing and monitoring them.
"You can't tell who is an insurgent by what they look like, but you can track their behaviour," explained Andrew Seedhouse, chief technologist for sensors and countermeasures at Dstl.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
One of these could be an incredibly high-resolution camera developed by Canadian company PV Labs. Whereas most digital cameras are between eight and 15 megapixels, this camera as 128."
128 megapixels,I want one of those.
You have to have fantastic optics to take advantage of 128 Mega pixels.
Yeah - and a boat load of money to pay for it. Just dreaming.
You won’t have to dream too long.
It will likely be a consumable within 5 to 10 years.
what is CCTV?
Closed Circuit TV
How long before they’re pointing these things at London hoodies?
Soviet Socialist Television..............
“You can’t tell who is an insurgent by what they look like, but you can track their behaviour,” explained Andrew Seedhouse, chief technologist for sensors and countermeasures at Dstl.
That system would crash if you placed it across the street from a mosque.
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