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On PBS's Nova program the public gets
it's first look at a new spy drone, which has the world's highest
resolution camera. With 1.8 billion pixels, the drone has 100 times
the capabilities of a predator drone in a medium sized city,
according to PBS.
The project, funded by DARPA (Defense
Advanced Research Project Agency) has created ARGUS with engineer
Yiannis Antoniades as the designer. Yiannis states, “ It is
important for the people to know that some of these capabilities
exist.”
Whether the spy drone is in the field
or not, is classified still.
In the video Yiannis shows the footage
of one of the pictures depicting 15 square miles of footage. He
showed how he could touch part of the screen, and then see a close up
of the streets in that city area. All moving objects were placed in
a moving square, even a bird flying by.
The spy drone can store up to 5,000
hours of footage every day. 65 windows can be opened at once to view
the area on a screen, and objects as small as 6 inches can be
automatically detected.
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