The Terrifying Technology Inside Drone Cameras
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UAVs operate in the world of tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance or ISR, generally providing immediate support for military operations often with constantly evolving mission objects. Traditionally, airborne ISR imaging systems were designed around one of two objectives, either looking at a large area without the ability to provide detailed resolution of a particular object or providing a high resolution view of specific targets, with a greatly diminished capability to see the larger context. Up until the 1990s, wet film systems were used on both the U2 and SR-71. Employing a roll of film 12.7 cm or 5" wide and almost 3.2 km or 2 miles long, this system would capture one frame every 6.8 seconds, with a limit of around 1,6000 frame captures per roll.
BIRTH OF DIGITAL
The first digital imaging system to be used for reconnaissance was the optical component of the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System or ASARS. Installed on the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft in the late 1970s, ASARS used a large, phased-array antenna to create high-resolution images of the ground below using radar. Complementing the radar, was an imaging system that used a Charge-coupled device or CCD camera to capture visible light images of the terrain being surveyed. This CCD camera operated in synchronization with the radar system and had a resolution of around 1 meter or 3.3 feet per pixel.
A CCD sensor consists of an array of tiny, light-sensitive cells arranged in an array. When combined with the limitation of computing hardware of the time, their designs were generally limited to less than a megapixel, with resolutions as low as 100,000 pixels being found in some systems.
CMOS
By the early 1990s, a new class of imagining sensor called active-pixel sensors, primarily based on the CMOS fabrication process began to permeate the commercial market. Active-pixel sensors employ several transistors at each photo site to both amplify and move the charge using a traditional signal path, making the sensor far more flexible for different applications due to this pixel independence. CMOS sensors also use more conventional, and less costly manufacturing techniques already established for semiconductor fabrication production lines.
FIRST WAMI
Wide Area Motion Imagery takes a completely different approach to traditional ISR technologies by making use of panoramic optics paired with an extremely dense imaging sensor. The first iteration of Constant Hawk’s optical sensor was created by combining 6 - 11 megapixel CMOS image sensors that captured only visible and some infrared light intensity with no color information.
At an altitude of 20,000 feet, the "Constant Hawk" was designed to survey a circular area on the ground with a radius of approximately 96 kilometers or 60 miles, covering a total area of over 28,500 square kilometers or about 11,000 square miles. Once an event on the ground triggers a subsequent change in the imagery of that region, the system would store a timeline of the imagery captured from that region. This now made it possible to access any event at any time that occurred within the system’s range and the mission’s flight duration. The real time investigation of a chain of events over a large area was now possible in an ISR mission.
In 2006 Constant Hawk became the first Wide Area Motion Imagery platform to be deployed as part of the Army’s Quick Reaction Capability to help combat enemy ambushes and improvised explosive devices in Iraq. In 2009, BAE System would add night vision capabilities and increase the sensor density to 96 megapixels. In 2013, full color imagery processing capability would be added.
The system was so successful that the Marine Corps would adopt elements of the program to create its own system called Angel Fire and a derivative system called Kestrel.
ARGUS-IS
As Constant Hawk was seeing its first deployment, several other similar systems were being developed that targeted more niche ISR roles, however one system in particular would create a new class of aerial surveillance, previously thought to be impossible. Called the ARGUS-IS, this DARPA project, contracted to BAE Systems aimed to image an area at such high detail and frame rate that it could collect "pattern-of-life" data that specifically tracks individuals within the sensor field. The system generates almost 21 TB of color imagery every second. Because ARGUS-IV is specifically designed for tracking, a processing system derived from the Constant Hawk project called Persistics was developed.
Because this tracking can even be done backwards in time, the system now becomes a powerful tool for forensic investigators and intelligence analysis of patterned human behavior.
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Love your shows…….I wouldn’t mind if you did a series about basic technologies…….gears…..striking engine…..transistors, capacitors, steam engines, lathes, Benz motor wagon…….et cetera…..in addition too…..gods bless
This is a fantastic level of research. Thank you.
This whole video sounds worse than the most evil regimes ever did to the world and mankind
Wrong. CMOS wasn't popular till about 2005,2007
Most camera manufactures used CCD's still mid 2000s but could be found till 2009
As a commercial drone mapping pilot, the standard mapping sensor is 20mp from surface up to about 300ft agl. The top range sensor is 45mp which depending on which lens used, can double the gsd as the 20mp from the same height. With a 20mp sensor @ 300ft, the gsd is about 20mm/pixel. If this is the case, then I believe the military currently can achieve 10 times this resolution at a higher altitude. Can’t wait to see what the future holds.
You mean the future can't wait to see what you hold.
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I’m a drone pilot and architect. Where can I learn more on this topic?
Military drones are much larger and can carry larger image sensors and bigger optics so yeah I agree. I don't think a same size military drone has much better optics than a commercial drone.
You fail to understand that big brother is everywhere, including your pants. We installed it.
This is how they make every traffic light red whenever I go anywhere 😂
LMAO....my friend feels the same way
Yes. For some reason, they'll spend billions to inconvenience you at all costs.
Would love to see something on the data handling system for something like this - How does a drone handle storing 21 TB per second???
Wasn't there this dude who was able to store a whole ass movie in only a few kilobytes in the 90's?
@@johndawson6057 tin hat
most of the data probably gets deleted immediately ando only the important bits are kept
The same way servers handle that
21TB/s is the raw data from the sensor, which is then first processed to only store the important bits (changes and activity) and compressed before actually being stored. the final numbers depend on the settings but i would guess no more than a few dozen GB/s. and thats perfectly within what modern storage technology can do.
What you can see from orbit is of course limited by physics, but you'd be surprised at what you can do with clever techniques. For example, you can slew your field of view so it stays on one location for a few seconds, then register the different views into one, significantly improving the resolution.
This is already explained in the video Einstein.
Stereoscopic imaging from 2 linked cameras gives you 3d. There's much scope to achieve terminator AI drones that will kill us all😅😮
I have a colleague who worked on a project where they used an array of cameras and then did some clever math to virtually eliminate atmospheric distortion.
What ?? damn this shit is complicated
Imagine a Hubble pointing down.
Constant HAWK literally saved my, and my whole squad's life back in January of 2008 near Tal Afar Iraq around 3am by stopping us from driving right into an ambush. Ive always wondered to myself if the people who worked on and designed these tools realize that their work helped save so many young American lives and how utterly grateful dumb grunts like me are for their brilliant work. This video was fascinating to see just what went into that technology.
Thank you for ur service american hero. What's your K/D ratio if you mind me askin
@@slaughtergang518 higher than 1:1
Tech saves some people, kills others. It all evens out I guess.
At the moment I think it's saving a lot of Ukrainian lives, and possible some Americans in Syria.
To be honest we see it as a "when you build a better mousetrap nature throws a better mouse at you." Problem. Except you're the mousetrap. And our idiom is far more insensitive.
you can cover such a wide topics in detailed yet easy to listen. As always, good one....
I can't wait to see you cover modern thermal imaging (mostly commercially available uncooled micro bolometer LWIR cameras)
These are damn scary machines in my opinion.
I agree, particularly in the event of using it to suppress a nation's people
S2Underground has vids that teach how to evade drones. Worth a look in my opinion.
Somebody somewhere has absolutely everything on every one of us.
They probably used it in so Salvador to round all those people up. They always use it on the bad guys first. Then they slowly but surely start directing it at us.
@@robertwelch2843 Kind of what Russia has planned.
@@tyronenelson9124 How do you know what Russia is planning ? Care to share that incredible intel with the rest of the class ? Maybe you should contact the State Dept.
@New Mind - Thanks for uploading this very informative and educational video! One last thing which you for some reason avoided mentioning is the excellent complementarity between data-intensive surveillance systems and data-hungry AI. This combination would lead to exactly the terrifying dystopian scenes portrayed in the Stargate and Terminator movie series, in which intelligent machines track down and destroy humans.
This technology is so impressive, so scary
impressive or scary. depends who is behind the PC controlling the drone. Most of the time I delete the shots I've taken with mine because I respect people's privacy, and my art PC is not connected to the internet. it's the last machine I have that still boots Windows, because even if it's 7, i don't want to trust it.
Excellent video, incredible to know the capabilities of these systems in the early 2010s was already this good. It is terrifying to think about the capabilities that are in use today, and those that are worked on. Person of Interest was a documentary it seems...
I recommend watching the Palantir show offs, they show how good the satellites are and how the constelations work nowadays
@@denisflorian2431 can you link please?
Just don't think about this technology and you are not terrified. Mental health is important!
Helium balloons are the current pinnacle of surveillance technology
-you are easily terrified
My first time watching one of your videos, and it's fantastic! I really love the amount of detail you went into with this. Thank you!!
Sats are still used for surveillance, just not for things like tracking cars. They have very high resolution but also have to have frames of reference due to the atmospheric distortion
And are used for weather information, for high-altitude and high speed, hypersonic, missiles.
and lasers for 'wildfires'... thanks a lot guys... appreciate you destroying everything I own on a whim.
@@chrisbova9686 what
@@axiolot5857 satellites, you know that ridiculous congresswoman who complained about 'jewish lazers'... she was not as stupid as they have made her out to be.
@@chrisbova9686 of course she wasn't that's why "they" made her look stupid.
Great video, very informative, well argued, well presented, thanks
Love that last image of a floating balloon 🎈 People should open their eyes to technology
youre about a decade behind. your eyes seemed to be glued shut while you point your one finger, three point back at you 👉
I love the tilt shift used in this video amazing job!
Good video as always! Small thing, but IMO it might be more convenient if you just said "10km" and put the miles equivalent in a text box (as you do now). Or the other way around, doesn't matter. Reading out all these numbers gets a bit much
I don't agree because it seems fine to me.
Any serious technology channel should probably eschew the constant verbal conversion to wacky freedumb units. Metric literacy is really easy as long as one is willing to crawl out from up their own ass. -An American who gained metric literacy
@@advicepirate8673 Metric is useful for scientific purposes and uas the advantage of being base ten so calculations are easier. Other than that there is no intrinsic advantage that metric units have. I don't know what gave you the idea that only the US uses imperial measurements either. There's a lot of countries that use them and many are officially metric though people use imperial measurements anyway. Here in Britain it is quite common to uses miles, inches, pounds etc. And here's another thing, for things such as speed in your car Km/Hr is terrible because it has too many units. the temperature you feel is also better measured in Fahrenheit. Metric fanboys like yourself are annoying because they don't understand that units are arbitrary and there's uses for a lot of different scales. I take an objective approach to measuring and don't promote one unit because I understand there's many and they have different advantages and disadvantages based on the situation. By the way, what is "dumb" about not not liking totalitarian dystopia running your life? If you like some place like North Korea so much because you think people should blindly obey everything they're forced to do and they're "dumb" for wanting to not be oppressed and be free move there then. The US as well as Britain and all of western Europe is suffering horribly because people like you think freedom is "freedumb". Go to prison and tell me how dumb it is to be free since that's what you said you like.
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't even read that entire block of shit
@@advicepirate8673 It's ok. It doesn't surprise me that you'd be overwhelmed by reading just a couple paragraphs. learn to click on the person you're responding to.
Great video. Having done a lot of work in commercial aerial imaging and satellite imagery, this tech is definitely next level. eg. a 2mm res is just insanely good. The issues with processing the volumes of real-time data are absolutely huge, so image subtraction and feature extraction are a clever way to make this manageable and usable for analysis. I'm guessing the recent advances in AI such as GPT-4 applied to this ISR use-case will enable another huge leap forward with smarter processing at the edge.
Agreed. AI can help determine what exactly needs to be high resolution so the data set can be narrowed down significantly. This could be done on a relatively small scale, such as specifically facial features and tattoos, to license plates, IED defining features, etc. Pattern recognition can also provide better insight into how often an event happens within certain perimeters, allowing for a routine to be established or abnormal activity to be highlighted.
Could you suggest some resources for amateurs to understand this field?
How will LLMs like GPT4 help with image recognition? I know it can recognize images but I would've thought purpose built computer vision models would probably be more applicable
@@blink182bfsftw I think they're just using GPT-4 as an example of the rapidly developing AI field. CV is certainly what would be used, not an LLM.
Don't Need Satellites to track someone now ! using traffic cameras and cell phones on board tracking in many new cars there No way to avoid being watch !!
Excellent video. I had herd of this tech some time ago so was wondering how in depth & accurate this would be. I enjoyed it.
Well done! One of the best done I have seen in a while.
The density and size of the image sensors is nowhere near as important as the ability to optically zoom into a subject under surveillance. Sensors may offer similar resolution to photographic film but it is the development of smaller, lightweight optical systems that makes the difference.
They are very important given the point of the video was to show the mass-surveillance and storage capability of these systems that can linger indefinitely, capturing your drive to work every day, and where you stopped for coffee along the way.
Can vouch for this, I have used rather low pixel thermal image sensors 480×1024 with optical telescopes made from surplus ZnSe laser optics and reflector mirrors that could outdo most thermal weapons sights in image quality at distance. More light in gives more details in the deep field.
Amazing timing to upload!
Wow another excellent vid, thank you. Also love the ending
Great video keep up the great work!
The real magic is what happens when you integrate the low-altitude synthetic aperture radar sensors with the visual sensors! Especially when you got a library of ML targets and some impressive computing power.
Since what you've show is public information, i'm deducing that there's probably a database somewhere that would show you a picture of every time i picked my nose in public 😅
... " i'm deducing that there's probably a database somewhere that would show you a picture of every time i picked my nose in public "
Absolutely false . Don't be ridiculous . They are both pictures _and_ video and it isn't just when you are in public .
Oh , and my associate Roy who works down at the Langley data center told me to tell you that you left the basement light on again . Cheers Michael .
@@SabbaticusRex could you please tell Roy that i like his name and that i am thankful that he cares about my electricity bill? But to your point, now i wish i had a basement to hide from the future :/
it's not the nose picking that is bothering us, it's that other thing you do when you think no one is watching, stop it willya?
Clearly you feel that your personal hygiene is of sufficient interest to consume resources keeping track of it... on the other hand, where has the $34T gone?
Maybe those trillions went into observing everyone from any perspective, even the silly ones. That was kinda my point :D
Thank you very much. It was an excellent informative presentation.
Nice presentation and graphics.
I didn’t know the ASARS was accompanied by a ccd camera.
I have mixed feelings about these capabilities. The raw technology is fascinating, and there are plenty of scientific and public safety applications. Tracking emerging volcanoes, their eruptions, and subsequent evacuations would be of interest in the near future.
After that, law enforcement could do a lot with this tech, and that's where my gut instinct is troubled. I love the idea of faster and safer resolutions to Amber Alerts, but I've seen enough body cam footage to know that there are plenty of officers who overstep their authority - and could easily bring George Orwell's 1984 to life here. Also chilling would be less-than-noble civilian uses; harassment of politicians, skewed narratives in divorce court, stalking a battered spouse, etc.
I hope the legislative and judicial forces of the free world find some responsible limits for the tracking of average citizens.
Imagine being an attractive woman and a government worker with this system is intent on raping you. You can run, hide, move, drive any vehicle. The rapist can just backtrack your movements.
Free world😅 - You must be new to it.
@@onepalproductions Some countries still allow citizens to criticize their own government, others do not. That's a simple enough distinction to define the "free world." Does your country allow you to openly criticize your leaders? Or do you self-censor your comments so as to avoid trouble?
@@hanrockabrand95 prisoners are also free to criticize their “leaders”…
@adam courville And are apparently not just free, but ENCOURAGED to spread lies online to increase their social credit score.
Taiwan is an independent country,
- Han
AI or manual pilots decide what information to be stored. Not all 21TB per second is stored. Even if it is stored, immediately it is uploaded to military satellite link capable of uploading terabytes per second. They don't have to have server running on drone.
The images and video Show were very good. Always amazed where these all are coming from
So we know the government + military has this technology that is better that the ones we just learned about, so just imagine the the up close detailed UFO 🛸 videos they have.
search Ashton Forbes mh370x 9:56
vs. that GRAINY.... B&W....... U T T E R . C R A P that they revealed to us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
could u do a video on counter saterlite timing
like how in movies they say oh we need to move under cover or dive the sub or move the car ect
Here in Colorado Springs and on the major interstate freeways there are surveillance drones, a whole galaxy of them. Some use a "fishingline" filament that extends to the ground that powers the drone...indefinitely. welcome to the future
They have autonomous swarm drones as well deployed everywhere. Can be remotely controlled by computer.
Hadn't heard that. Any articles about them?
@@GreenCurryiykykthere are TH-cam’s who have built solar powered drones that can glide and power themselves when needed and loiter forever
@@GreenCurryiykyk it was on the local news. The line going to the drone is 1-2 ounces per 1000 feet
Nice video with mind blowing information
May I ask for references the support the numbers
This is hectic stuff. What is the equivalent of such capabilities in camera sensors used in outdoor advertising?
Wonderfully presented look at the history of camera technology. Thank you for this most interesting video. I didn't find any of this technology terrifying though.
Not that it needs to be said, but well researched, as always. I like and comment on every video to help the channel get exposure via TH-cam's algorithm. The fact that there's only 500,000 subscribers is an injustice.
I agree 100%, would love to see this channels grow beyond the million subscribers.
Totally agree
1.1M views and only 26K thumbs up. That's not a second injustice?
Nicely explained!
Beautiful as always
Good video. I never knew U2 had a SAR radar. Wouldn't it make it more detectable since it's practically broadcasting it's presence?
Yes and no. The U-2 is not really a stealth aircraft. Its strength is its exceptionally high altitude to evade threats.
@@cheweh842 Well that strength became null and void after Gary Powers got shot down!
@@cheweh842 Though if detected by SAR emissions, just turning it off would (propably) make the U2 vanish from sensors.
@@David-lr2vi Not entirely. Not every nation was the Soviet Union. And even against the Soviet Union, the number of systems able to engage the U2 was limited. The U2 lost its *impunity* when Gary Powers was shot down. It didn't lose it's *utility*.
That's just one of the reasons that obtaining air superiority is a critical first step in a conflict. If you own the sky you own the battle space. When you don't yet have air superiority you use stealth, easily accomplished with these small portable sensor packages. And then there's satellites.....
We have recon camera systems that can read the face of a dime on the ground a couple miles up over at least 15 square mile area (that I know of, not classified). That's something like 20,000 acres per picture. It's just dozens of high rez cameras like high end ones used in cell phone size devices wired or patchworked together in sequence. I think Israel was developing it over a decade ago. I'm sure they got better. The pixels and data amounts these things generate are insanely astronomical amounts and they're tracking and precessing everything on the ground on the fly.... Yes, you covered it, the ARGUS system.
Great video!
Awsome video very entertaining and educational. Thank u
Great video. I know absolutely nothing about this stuff and you could have said the film was developed by hybrid apes BUT this has a great deal of information about things I’m not aware of. Thanks for breaking it down you have earned my sub 😂 in Iraq we were given these drones. They were fairly new small and deployable by us. Then they told us to stop using them because they were made in China and were magically mapping out Iraq for the civilian used drones. We obviously stopped using them and idk who decided to get them from China in the first place but they obviously saw more than the terrain of Iraq.
This is what we know and is publicized. I knew someone in charge of communications back in the day of around the event of “black hawk down” in Mogadishu and making sure Air Force one always had a line of site of communications when traveling (so a very long time ago). He said he had a mission with the DEA and said the picture they were taking, at the speed and altitude they were traveling, they were able to read the newspaper the person was holding and the smoke of a cigarette. Now they can just see “thru walls” with the technology they use.
Zoiks Scoob !!
My grandfather used to work on stealth aircraft. By work on I mean he was designing the shapes and inventing materials related to the f-22(actually worked on the yf-23 but had to share his work when it lost) and b2.
He’s always tried to skirt the line of what he’s allowed to tell me. But his signature line when I ask a question is “you have no idea what we’re capable of”, and that’s his way of nicely telling me he can’t talk about that. Or just his way of telling me there’s some horrifying things we have access to.
@@connorj2775 oh yeah I know. Whatever technology we know about, just not even close to what’s out there.
I remember someone telling me that they were in the middle of a mission when they asked him to step aside and look at the real time satellite video feed of a politician getting out of a strip club and record it. That was later used as blackmail. The fact they can see real time footage in the middle of nowhere for stupid crap like that is insane.
A good spy knows how to avoid this ! Life or Death you most be smarter then your enemy
He was having a go with you. I’m sure your gullibility was entertaining to him.
Thank you so much, very well explained, kids just loved it.
Thanks for giving measurements in both scales. 💋
I remember a cyberpunk story (can't remember the exact book) where criminal gangs used to all wear the same clothes, including gloves, and very wide brimmed sombreros to stop this exact sort of thing, then each person's identity could be kept private and if the sombreros were wide enough, then person to person interaction was also hidden. All the cameras saw was the same circles moving around. If a group went into a building then all left at the same time, it made it very hard to track a particular individual. Of course, we now know that the way a person walks would be tracked via AI...
Well with the real time surveillance, you could also quickly respond to such anomalies, encircling the area. Any escape routes quickly being learned each time they're used. It could also be used to narrow down people who suddenly change clothing by watching an area and never seeing them leave. Very cool.
@@midgetman4206 The point they made in the book, though, was that these criminals regularly met in large groups, all wearing the same clothes, and the 'criminal activity' they did most often was just talk and socialise. They had no need to change clothing because they all wore the same clothing. Also, you simply couldn't put in a cordon around an area just because a group of people met, which was what happened 90% of the time, or because you couldn't track every individual in public. Not without turning the entire country into some sort of Orwellian dystopian nightmare anyway, which is a real danger if observing the population to this degree becomes normalised.
I don't want to live in a country where simply meeting in a place, and not allowing the government to identify and track me, means the police swoop in and arrest everyone because it is 'an anomaly'.
I feel for whoever is watching me, they are probably bored to death.
Thats not funny but sad
wonderful video. thank you, Paul in Florida
"21 TB Per 1 Sec" = 1260 TB per one minute footage. At this rate even the largest data storage center currently being build by IBM can only store 95 minutes of footage at full capacity. Let that sink in for a minute!
data compression and digital image processing, and other processes he mentioned, do miracles by taking this enormous stream of data and provide useful output at much much lower capacities.
It’s not sinking in… my brain doesn’t hold a candle
Have they tried a version with the new software and Len's capabilities but building a interconnected multi lense processor system? 1 for wide angle images of the static landscape, 1 for moving objects, then incorporate Lidar, IR abilities as well. (I'm sure they've tried this already)
Sensor Fusion is, for sure, one of the top priorities of current research.
Like Gorgon's eye? (Look it up)
Impressively scary.
Nice info, thank you:)
Another great video.
We have seen it couple of days ago. Rip reaper.
How is Brilliant able to sponsor every video I watch on TH-cam?
simply great insights tank you
Thanks for this information. Private companies under gov contracts fly above our cities with these.
Very interesting video, incredible to know how good the tech was in the early 2010s.
I still use a Sony A77 that is from the early 2010s, still see no advantage to even get a newer one today. 2010 isn't much old, even 20 years ago you had a bunch of cameras, pro or even semipro that had 10Mpx sensors and excellent optics. And on the top of that you had Hasselblad that made like 20Mpx LF sensors commissioned from Fujifilm.
so those chinese recon balloons are , for example, not about better images of mil installations, but tracking the commutes of the entire workforce of those installations to know where they live?
well, some weren't even Chinese. Some were just meteorological ones from local areas. But yes the initial ones were Chinese.
The secondary soundtrack is not only distracting but also annoying. Why was it necessary to include it?
Very impressive explanations
Perfect timing
Hopefully we can get our mq9 out of water
I’d watch a 3 hour video all about geosynchronous orbit
A private company did wide area imaging over Baltimore for years with the blessing of Baltimore's PD. Look it up if you want more details! It was widely reported on by the Baltimore Sun and NYT
It's a...it's.... utterly amazing and frightening at the same time.
To me these are university level topics presented in a way that's way too good to be free. Thank you.
The best things in life come for free, FACT!
Very informative and well researched, prompting lots of great comments. All technology has it's good and bad applications. To call it "Terrifying Technology" is hyperbole. Keep up the good reporting and you'll not need to go so far.
It _is_ terrifying though. Properly managed, disclosed and with strong rules then maybe is powerful force for protecting the innocent and bringing justice to those who are wronged.
But hidden in dark rooms, unsupervised with no transparency the abuse can go unnoticed. In the hands of active enemies, the power to harm and control is profound.
@@x--. I'm a huge advocate for education...knowledge is the true power. If one yeilds knowedge to others. He/she suffers out of ignorance. Fear is a mind killer. I assume by watching videos such as this and likely others you are seeking knowledge. Knowledge is our only defense from tyranny. Keep seeking knowldge and please do in books and sources NOT social media.
@@scottnj2503 I suppose I'd say if there is one universal truth to the evils of the past it has been the arrogance with which mankind has proclaimed them necessary, great, wonderful or just not all that scary.
We grasp tightly to the true triumphs because they give us hope but, in truth, the atrocities are far more plentiful. How many people have been killed in vein to satisfy a god, a theory or belief system?
Unbridled surveillance is dangerous. As long as the government hides how it is used then it is not subject to true oversight.
If knowledge saves us from tyranny then application of that knowledge over the overly optimistic proclamations by those in power should be the order of the day :)
did you see the video, with those small drones that have facial recognition and hold a explosive charge. They fly up to the target and explode right on their skull.
Scary military tech
Argus is powerful. but you don't need argus to follow cars it's much more powerful to follow people and have highlighted rendering points to track hot targets.
They can track everyone EXCEPT the guy who get into your house to rob you. To this guy, they will even award a medal. These capabilities have only one target: normal civilians.
Lol magabrain. Please stop watching Fox
@@zildjiandrummer1 'These ideas sound insane, must be coming from my political opposition'
I suggest actually reading up on modern surveillance practices and legislative grey zones. Or just look at Australia or China for a prime example of what surveillance is going to look like in a decade or so.
@@Volvith I've been in the industry for almost a decade, I think I know enough.
@@Volvithi suggest making your response shorter, i can smell your room from my phone screen
All this technology and still my 350 dollar dashcam can’t catch a license plate 3 feet away…
Excellent video ❤❤❤
Wow! This is crazy. Awesome.
If history tells us anything we can trust the government with this sort of technology right guys
Do you know how the systems deal with chromatic aberration?
In general you can use different lenses to compensate. Like aspheric lenses but that makes the design process a lot more difficult. To reduce the effects of moiré optical low pass filter can be used.
We went from attaching cameras to biplanes in 1915 for reconnisance to 40mp drone cameras that can see a license plate at 2000ft
Very interesting. Thank you.
0:25 looks like an Angel
Targeting persistence inverse to imaging resolution bc high targeting persistence means geolocked which has a further-out orbit; LEO satellites have shorter optical exposure times
2:25 the ability to see every event in an entire city in real time
2:35 tactical intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance within constantly evolving mission objectives
Computer games: Fog of war is a key element to any large scale strategy game.
US military/ hackers: If you join a fair fight you have already lost. Fog of war disabled.
Oooo! Was that a spoiler/tease for the upcoming Linus's new car video in the Dbrand ad? (billboard)
Excellent video
We were talking about the Russian intercept of one of the Predators over the black sea and an actual drone pilot chimed into a post on the thread saying that the camera package was essentially more valuable than the rest of the drone. Then I see this video posted. Guy deleted his account, but the post is still there.
Yeah it was hilarious reading all the shilling that it's useless and old tech, you could tell they were either glowing or had no idea about reverse engineering such EO systems.
@@N4CR5 not saying it didn't had any special configuration, but if it had default equipment, mq9 reapers were already shot down and taken into enemy hands including allies of Russia. So there is not much new they could get from it they already don't have.
Of course the camera package is far more valuable than the drone. That's a given. An amazon delivery truck is carrying more value that the truck itself.
There are these flexible displays that can be used in place of flat screen devices. Just place them on the top of a vehicle with a camera below the vechicle and display the road on the flexible display. To any drones above the vehicle will look invisible.
1. Civilian cars are not flat
2. Any obfuscation is fed into the AI pipeline to make a superior product next time around that specifically hunts for this phenomena.
3. What makes you blend in to the aerial cameras makes you stand out to civilians.
4. Screens are RGB and BW, these cameras include IR, and LiDar.
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1: Guess you've never seen a UPS vehicle.
2. Truck as its own onboard AI that counters any detection.
3. Who cares about civilians on the ground? We'ere talking about drones here. Civilians also don't see the tops of vehicles.
4. The drones are from the Chinese - the bad guys - spying on Ukranian operatives. The vehicles on the ground are the Ukrainians - the good guys - enroute to take out a bunch of russian soldiers that the Chinese are supporting.
@@sr.luisraytraceiii2422 and now uv uv exposes alot of dyes in cammo clothing and nets and even in i.r dyes pop out alot
@@littlehills739 Correct, even using the wrong detergent can give you away.
@@Decay19XX absolutely, even older underwears now emit a type of substance which is insta visible to AI controlled blockchain enabled IR cameras mounted on 18th gen hunter-destroyer drones
Thanks, I’m terrified.
a friend was a systems designer and he designed every sensor on at least two U2's. He also installed all the emitters and receivers he designed....Had a dozen patents in microwave and infrared. And more. My dad was involved in the infancy of electronic warfare. I heard in the mid 1960's "We can look into your eye from 500 miles up". U2 friend has a lense from c1962 that has 4" resolution at 100,000 ft. and this lens/ film technology existed c.1960. There weren't so many satellites then but the ability to look right at you has been around for many decades. And U2 friend said Gary Powers was flying at 100,000ft (not 70K) and going very slow, like 100-150mph. But he wasn't involved in that incident.
there is a massive difference in seeing one thing or a few things that close to seeing EVERYTHING all the time and being able to have programs analyse all of it.... scary
@@TheHadi545 yes and the close up and personal views are 60+ year old technology. Then we only had a few eye balls looking at us now there are zillions
Yup you cannot beat good old film for capturing tiny details if you do not need real time analysis.
How do I share information with you? I have the information on Argus as the military allowed it to be commercialized. I was looking into investing in this system and have a great deal of information on it. The goal, was to work with other countries who didn't have the money or manpower to police the populace. The test run showed how they followed a car through Mexico, including going back in time, and then just followed it from the data Argus had, later, the Federales went into 7 locations and shutdown a large part of the cartel operating in that area. This technology can be used for good or bad.
Mind sharing more info here?
@@Sebasivx Here is some basic info. I can tell you that it's in priVate hands now. Companies Like Allstate, LibErty Mutual, and CNN may be active users. The NYpD and US Gov may be active uSers. Was used at the Qatari World Cup if I'm not mistaken. -- it's a Low-SWaP gigapixel video for manned platformS and UAV's with Live, automated, on-board, GPixel video streaming, archival and exploitation. Has automated software for motion detecting and tracking of 100's of 'objects' simultaneously with novel exploitation algorithms to facilitate rapid, network-based distributed forensics. Uses 4 Composite Focal Plane Array (CFPA) Image formation sensors to create a mosaic image. Has petabyte class storage hardware and software for archiving and exploitation, which allows each unit to monitor a city up to 100sq km. DVR capabilities for the entire area, allowing the user to rewind and follow the 'objects' or track in real-time. Resolution: 5-20cm - Coverage: 100km^2 motion video - Flight Height: 500-30000' - Forensic Ability: Yes - Flight Duration: Limited by hours of available Daylight - Multiple AOI Streams: Yes
The problem is, they're using this technology to record US citizens without their knowledge or consent.
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The YT video on Argus I saw back when it was made public was impressive enough.
I wondered if I could build a "lite" version of it.
Coupled with AI, one wonders what military in the world could survive when the exact position of every one of its assets are known in semi-real time.
More so what it's civilian applications could be from retail analytics to distribution to logistics to crime fighting to fire fighting to lost & found to border security to tsunami warning... It's endless.
I wish I could be funded to explore and innovate technologies of all kinds for the rest of my life and be free from the daily grind.
In a few years this will be coupled with AI and it won’t be possible to go outside without complete surveillance. The local council will have a field day with our liberty.
At that point access to this technology would need to be democratized, to where any one could access the live feed.
Hi, enjoy your videos. You may have a typo at 13:23, ARGUS-IS can resolve details as small as 6 inches (152mm) from an altitude of 20,000 feet (6km).
This is fascinating stuff - literally magic in RL
Looking back at the TV show “Person of Interest”…is based upon the evolution of this technology
When the Big Brother becomes Sauron
back when i was in highschool 15+ years ago I had a teacher who had retired from the military, He said he worked with spy satellites and they where so powerful if you where sitting by your window reading a book the satellite could zoom in to the point it could read the words in the book!! that was back 15+ year ago i cant even imagine what they can do now real time 3D modeling is super easy for them!!
They're not that good. It's physically impossible to resolve that level of detail in the visible light spectrum from thousands of miles away.
It's the same reason we use electron microscopes instead of really big optical microscopes.
What's this "book" technology your describe?
Sounds like being able to read the images on a computer screen?
I graduated high school in the 70's, my sister in 90 - I was chagrined to learn they no longer taught "estimation" in school. A back-of-the-envelope calculation should convince you that this story is apocryphal...
Amazing and fascinating tech..! ❤
I saw something on argus, probably 4-5 years ago. So it has been around for a while. Wonder what they have now.
With a movable camera a sattelite can stay in line of sight much longer than 1 ms 💟
Sattelites can also be geostationary.
Geostationary means 12,000+ miles away. He covers that.
Actually, all Geostationary orbit is 35,786 km or 22,236 above the equator. So geostationary satellites are not that good for places not close to the equators, or is not good for reconnaissance in general since it is Stationary!
The huge advances currently being made in AI will take this capability to a whole new level.
This visual columns with text is actually could be used and helpful for education, explanation, debates and research, other areas to explain things for peacful cooperations with humans to show complex situations or things that need to be explained in good ways.