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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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 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.
@@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?
@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
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
@@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.
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.
In his video: _Extracting Energy From Thin Air:_ _Without a difference in thermal states from which to establish a flow of energy ..._ _No mechanical work can be extracted from the system._ (So elegant & clear it's mind blowing)
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.
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.
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 UA-cam's algorithm. The fact that there's only 500,000 subscribers is an injustice.
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.
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
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 !!
@@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.....
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
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.
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.
A few sentences from the intro has me thinking about a comment a make frequently when it comes to missing people especially Missing 411 Can Am missing project or other creators of the same genre. I’ve said and I believe that there isn’t place on earth that isn’t in some stage of constant surveillance. In my mind people searching for missing people, including law enforcement who is searching for missing people or even someone who too another individuals life . Could easily be solved if only those who are searching had access to these satellite surveillance cameras. They could narrow down the time and last likely location and and get a high resolution Birds Eye view of their target and everything they did or went and go from there. They could also put together grids and investigate until they find their targets and go from there . The only reason I can think of that keeps them from admitting this technology exists and all of its capabilities. Is because they fear public backlash from people who don’t want our Government to pretend they are some sort of all seeing and all knowing God , at least for now. But I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t irk me that families have had to endure the immense pain of losing someone they love and without any answers as to happened to them and where they are , yet our Government who has all the technology you can imagine to give these families answers . But they don’t
@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 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.
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.
"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.
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.
@@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.
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 :/
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?
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
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?
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
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.
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
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.
I've spent something like. What, fourteen years? Yeah like 14 years on youtube. I've subbed to probably 8,000+ different channels over the years. I have NEVER used a sponsor recommended by a youtuber. Not once. Not even one single ad from any youtuber. I've been proven right every time someone shills for a bullcrap product that turns out to be abusing its customers.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@N4CR 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.
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 :)
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.
You missed so much of current technology. Here's a few things to scare you. AVT - Ascent Vision Tech (make a number of a multi sensor EOIR gimbals) Athena AI - want to talk about tracking software for your imagery tech, this is a whole new level, tracking, AND identification, including identification of whether someone is armed with a rifle Sentient Vision - Kestrel - Sub pixel tracking capability. Sentient Vision ViDAR - This is the craziest of them all, and is the next level of what you spoke about last, massive area visual radar.
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)
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.
Person of Interest CBS aired five seasons of; The Machine As Musk said on Rogan, we're programming the A.I., it's got countless data centers, hundreds of millions of phones ... mics, video, still cams. I don't know how close we are, ie., where we are along the time constant of expansion. However, when A.I. reaches critical mass, things change forever, no going back ...
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.
@@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.
@@truthhurts7892 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.
You can track a target with a satellite given the following conditions: 1) The camera can pan and zoom. How much determines how far it can track. 2) At which orbit the camera is, lower means less ability to track but a better image in conjunction with the cameras optics. 3) You don't need to track the target for any longer than a brief moment of time and you don't mind the perspective shift that will be incurred. On a side note, you can't read a license plate from directly above assuming normal license plate orientation which is vertical. Now with all that said, given enough satellites, you can track a target indefinitely. Just that the angles will change periodically as one satellite stops tracking and another becomes the primary tracker. If you have a huge amount of satellites you can even, in real time, construct a full 3D view of a tracked object that might shift shapes a bit and have its textures move in strange ways throughout but it's still tracking in real time forever in 3D. And all that collected data can be further processed to create a VERY accurate depiction of the tracked object. So don't say it isn't possible... Is it however being done? Only the richest governments know, they are the ones with the capacity to fund such a constellation while also having the means to keep it from being well known.
There's no reason to spend billions of dollars on a huge network of LEO satellites when a UAV can do the same thing for much cheaper. LEO satellites also are not able to read license plates from orbit, as they are usually at an altitude of around 500 km which is over 100x as far away as a UAV can be to any given target.
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.
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...
All technological development needs to stop for at least 1000 years. We aren't ready to handle the power of this technology and we will end up serving it.
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!
Megapixels don't mean anything if you don't have the lens to back it up. Anything over 8 megapixels in a smartphone is pointless being shot through a standard quality 5mm lens. The largest image you see on social media isn't any larger than 8 megapixels. That being said, down-sampling and pixel stacking is a thing. Down sampling is turning 4 pixels into 1 using an algorithm to gain twice the clarity. 32 megapixels may result in a better image through the same cheap lens. Stacking is using the same pixel to take a thousand photos, and the algorithm uses the micro shifts in position and color data to correct imperfections in the lens and atmosphere, along with generating many new theoretical pixels. To the point where you can get clear photos of distant planets and galaxies with $3k of standard amateur photography equipment. I wonder if advanced surveillance cameras are using any of these tricks with the finest lenses modern tech has to offer?
And this is why I suspect the US military knew where MH370 was. There were Cobra Gold and Cope Tiger military exercises near that area at around that time. The USA 224 and USA 245 satellites were passing over that area around that time too. So it's likely that the US military knew but wanted to see if China had both the capability and willingness to reveal it.
100%. it’s impossible they don’t know what happened to mh370 9:56. they are withholding information from the families. Ashton Forbes has done an amazing amount of investigation into the case, search him #mh370x
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
you can cover such a wide topics in detailed yet easy to listen. As always, good one....
In his video: _Extracting Energy From Thin Air:_
_Without a difference in thermal states from which to establish a flow of energy ..._
_No mechanical work can be extracted from the system._ (So elegant & clear it's mind blowing)
Dude - you basically predicted the New Jersey drone crisis.
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 can't wait to see you cover modern thermal imaging (mostly commercially available uncooled micro bolometer LWIR cameras)
@@WhoaBo So can they!
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.
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.
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 UA-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?
They've been able to read your morning paper with you since the early 90s at least.
And they've been able to affect you too.
Amazing timing to upload!
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 !!
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.....
I feel for whoever is watching me, they are probably bored to death.
Thats not funny but sad
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?
@@Greeniykykthere are UA-cam’s who have built solar powered drones that can glide and power themselves when needed and loiter forever
@@Greeniykyk it was on the local news. The line going to the drone is 1-2 ounces per 1000 feet
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.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the tilt shift used in this video amazing job!
A few sentences from the intro has me thinking about a comment a make frequently when it comes to missing people especially Missing 411 Can Am missing project or other creators of the same genre. I’ve said and I believe that there isn’t place on earth that isn’t in some stage of constant surveillance. In my mind people searching for missing people, including law enforcement who is searching for missing people or even someone who too another individuals life . Could easily be solved if only those who are searching had access to these satellite surveillance cameras. They could narrow down the time and last likely location and and get a high resolution Birds Eye view of their target and everything they did or went and go from there. They could also put together grids and investigate until they find their targets and go from there . The only reason I can think of that keeps them from admitting this technology exists and all of its capabilities. Is because they fear public backlash from people who don’t want our Government to pretend they are some sort of all seeing and all knowing God , at least for now. But I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t irk me that families have had to endure the immense pain of losing someone they love and without any answers as to happened to them and where they are , yet our Government who has all the technology you can imagine to give these families answers . But they don’t
Amen, well said. I've always thought the same. It makes no sense.
Great video, very informative, well argued, well presented, thanks
When the Big Brother becomes Sauron
Nice presentation and graphics.
I didn’t know the ASARS was accompanied by a ccd camera.
@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.
Well done! One of the best done I have seen in a while.
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.
Wow another excellent vid, thank you. Also love the ending
All this technology and still my 350 dollar dashcam can’t catch a license plate 3 feet away…
Excellent video. I had herd of this tech some time ago so was wondering how in depth & accurate this would be. I enjoyed it.
I’d watch a 3 hour video all about geosynchronous orbit
"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
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
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!!
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
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
We went from attaching cameras to biplanes in 1915 for reconnisance to 40mp drone cameras that can see a license plate at 2000ft
The secondary soundtrack is not only distracting but also annoying. Why was it necessary to include it?
How is Brilliant able to sponsor every video I watch on UA-cam?
Nicely explained!
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!
Thanks for giving measurements in both scales. 💋
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.
Awsome video very entertaining and educational. Thank u
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.
Thank you very much. It was an excellent informative presentation.
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!
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
Thank you so much, very well explained, kids just loved it.
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.
I've spent something like.
What, fourteen years?
Yeah like 14 years on youtube.
I've subbed to probably 8,000+ different channels over the years.
I have NEVER used a sponsor recommended by a youtuber. Not once. Not even one single ad from any youtuber.
I've been proven right every time someone shills for a bullcrap product that turns out to be abusing its customers.
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
Great video keep up the great work!
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.
Data Scientists !! Building a brave new world !
Impressively scary.
Great video. Big Brother is watching!!!!!
We have seen it couple of days ago. Rip reaper.
wonderful video. thank you, Paul in Florida
If history tells us anything we can trust the government with this sort of technology right guys
It's a...it's.... utterly amazing and frightening at the same time.
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.
Another great 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.
@@N4CR 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.
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).
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 :)
The images and video Show were very good. Always amazed where these all are coming from
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
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.
Excellent video ❤❤❤
Perfect timing
Hopefully we can get our mq9 out of water
You missed so much of current technology.
Here's a few things to scare you.
AVT - Ascent Vision Tech (make a number of a multi sensor EOIR gimbals)
Athena AI - want to talk about tracking software for your imagery tech, this is a whole new level, tracking, AND identification, including identification of whether someone is armed with a rifle
Sentient Vision - Kestrel - Sub pixel tracking capability.
Sentient Vision ViDAR - This is the craziest of them all, and is the next level of what you spoke about last, massive area visual radar.
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)
Beautiful as always
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.
Person of Interest
CBS aired five seasons of;
The Machine
As Musk said on Rogan, we're programming the A.I., it's got countless data centers, hundreds of millions of phones ... mics, video, still cams.
I don't know how close we are, ie., where we are along the time constant of expansion.
However, when A.I. reaches critical mass, things change forever, no going back ...
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.
@@truthhurts7892
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.
Excellent video
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.
0:19 Mirror image of Earth. Why mirror image?
The huge advances currently being made in AI will take this capability to a whole new level.
Very impressive explanations
You can track a target with a satellite given the following conditions:
1) The camera can pan and zoom. How much determines how far it can track.
2) At which orbit the camera is, lower means less ability to track but a better image in conjunction with the cameras optics.
3) You don't need to track the target for any longer than a brief moment of time and you don't mind the perspective shift that will be incurred.
On a side note, you can't read a license plate from directly above assuming normal license plate orientation which is vertical.
Now with all that said, given enough satellites, you can track a target indefinitely. Just that the angles will change periodically as one satellite stops tracking and another becomes the primary tracker.
If you have a huge amount of satellites you can even, in real time, construct a full 3D view of a tracked object that might shift shapes a bit and have its textures move in strange ways throughout but it's still tracking in real time forever in 3D. And all that collected data can be further processed to create a VERY accurate depiction of the tracked object.
So don't say it isn't possible...
Is it however being done? Only the richest governments know, they are the ones with the capacity to fund such a constellation while also having the means to keep it from being well known.
There's no reason to spend billions of dollars on a huge network of LEO satellites when a UAV can do the same thing for much cheaper. LEO satellites also are not able to read license plates from orbit, as they are usually at an altitude of around 500 km which is over 100x as far away as a UAV can be to any given target.
@@hn396 Finish reading before commenting.
On top of that sattelites can also be geostationary 💟
@@hn396 a UAV can't fly over China 😉
Don't need satellites, they have autonomous drones that can be computer controlled.
They can read your newspaper from space.
Never forget that.
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...
All technological development needs to stop for at least 1000 years. We aren't ready to handle the power of this technology and we will end up serving it.
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!
USA: This is an infringement on privacy
China: Yes
Megapixels don't mean anything if you don't have the lens to back it up. Anything over 8 megapixels in a smartphone is pointless being shot through a standard quality 5mm lens. The largest image you see on social media isn't any larger than 8 megapixels. That being said, down-sampling and pixel stacking is a thing. Down sampling is turning 4 pixels into 1 using an algorithm to gain twice the clarity. 32 megapixels may result in a better image through the same cheap lens. Stacking is using the same pixel to take a thousand photos, and the algorithm uses the micro shifts in position and color data to correct imperfections in the lens and atmosphere, along with generating many new theoretical pixels. To the point where you can get clear photos of distant planets and galaxies with $3k of standard amateur photography equipment. I wonder if advanced surveillance cameras are using any of these tricks with the finest lenses modern tech has to offer?
Very interesting. Thank you.
And this is why I suspect the US military knew where MH370 was. There were Cobra Gold and Cope Tiger military exercises near that area at around that time. The USA 224 and USA 245 satellites were passing over that area around that time too. So it's likely that the US military knew but wanted to see if China had both the capability and willingness to reveal it.
100%. it’s impossible they don’t know what happened to mh370 9:56. they are withholding information from the families. Ashton Forbes has done an amazing amount of investigation into the case, search him #mh370x