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Yeah, I know you thought your Hello Kitty digicam was some hot stuff, but believe it or not the kids at Darpa have even got that one beat. Called ARGUS-IS this guy straps a 1.8 gigapixel camera to the bottom of an A-160T Hummingbird robot helicopter. The device is able to hover at high altitude for up to 20 hours -- keeping tabs of an area of over a hundred square miles. The frame rate is 15 fps and the "ground sample distance"...
2009-02-12
big brother military robot intelligence photography camera resolution pixel gigapixel spy surveillanceThe following is a list of United Nations resolutions that concern Israel and bordering states such as Lebanon From 1967 to 1989 the UN Security Council passed 131 resolutions directly addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict.