DARPA's Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging
System (ARGUS) has 1.8 billion pixels (1.8 gigapixels), making it the
world' highest resolution camera. The sensors on the camera are so
precise, PBS stated it is the equivalent to having one hundred predator
drones looking at an area the size of a medium sized city - all at
once...
In this video segment from PBS, contractor "Yiannis
Antonaides" said "It is important for the public to know that some of
these capabilities exist."
PBS.org video, "Rise of the Drones"
http://video.pbs.org/video/2326108547/From
17,500 feet (more than 3 miles up), ARGUS can "see" and record
EVERYTHING roughly within an area equal to 15 square miles. EVERYTHING
in that 'window' is being automatically tracked. The system stores up to
1 million terabytes a day which can be accessed at any time later to
discover what happened in any area, anytime after the fact.
"You
can go back and say 'I would like to know what happened at this
particular location three days, two hours, four minutes ago' and it
would actually show you what happened as if you were watching it live,"
We are moving towards an increasingly electronic society where all of our movements are going to be tracked and recorded.
Dennis Fetcho, aka "The Fetch", is an American ex-patriot living in Amman, Jordan. He is the author of the Illuminatus Observor, a blog regarded by many as simply the finest Hermetic Qaballa blog in all of blogdom. The Fetch also has a second site called"Inside The Eye Live.com"
