1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World's highest resolution video surveillance platform by DARPA

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cronix · 2022-01 · Reference

You could also install cameras pointing back towards Earth and basically have 24/7 coverage of everyone's movements similar to what Darpa's ARGUS-IS[1](2013) does except using a global network of satellites instead of drones and build the greatest video surveillance platform on the planet. Instead of covering a city for a limited time with a drone stuffed with an array of off the shelf cell phone cameras, you could have "persistent stare" for the entire planet. I wonder if the NSA has thought about that. [1] [VIDEO]

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LargoLasskhyfv · 2020-05 · Reference

Would a demo of what is possible at 4000 feet suffice? [LINK] (4min33sec) Or what was state of the art at DARPA in 2013? [VIDEO] (4min40sec) Edit: Or more commonly available, just search for "Nikon Superzoom" on youtube, and watch some short demos there. And then imagine those pointed in all directions downwards, the videostream(s) saved to some small storage array, or even transmitted live to some ground station(s), indexed and overlaid on something like google maps, just better, with a time slider. Mark some car at some point (in time) and see where it moves...and so on. Edit: like THIS [LINK] (3min13sec) Edit: Oh! And something from 2016 about "The Surveillance Firm Recording Crimes From Baltimore's Skies" (7min29sec) [LINK] Another demo of the same thing from the same person/company in another town, also 2016: "The Eyes in the Sky That Catch Murders on Tape" [LINK] (5min) So why is this news?

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cronix · 2019-09 · Reference

Looks like they copied our ARGUS system, which can be mounted on drones to cover entire cities 24/7. [LINK] [VIDEO]

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