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2010-01-11 Home Front: WoT

Military Is Deluged in Intelligence From Drones

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Posted by Steve White 2010-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The military has ways of winnowing down what they need to but they might not realize it. Maybe they need two systems working together, the first is the filter and the second then looks at what the first system finds interesting.

Imagine an unmanned JSTARS type of system operating pretty much 24x7 over the area. That would be one way to approach things.

Only take video of "interesting" targets. Use the other system to select what might be "interesting".

Posted by crosspatch 2010-01-11 01:15|| 2010-01-11 01:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Mindful of those lapses, the Air Force and other military units are trying to prevent becoming overloaded with video collected by the drones,

They are not flown for the phuech of it, these are "requirements based" platforms. Submit your requirements, timeline, and named area of interest (NAI) to the collection manager and stand-by for vid coverage. If it is not what you need, notifiy the collection manager and change it! This is aerial collection, but it is not rocket science. Telling an analyst he is getting too much streaming vid of his requested NAI is like telling him he's getting too much se*.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-11 06:24|| 2010-01-11 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 It's the New York Times, Besoeker. They don't know about too much se*.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-11 08:32|| 2010-01-11 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 "All the news that's fit to print." NYT motto

How they have drifted off that agenda over the past 100 years or so .

Posted by Oscar 2010-01-11 08:59|| 2010-01-11 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 You might find the following interesting:

http://www.ga-asi.com/products/sensors/lynxsar.php
http://www.ga-asi.com/products/sensors/claw.php

and just google DCGS to get a feel for why the NYT as usual doesn't know what it is talking about.

Posted by rwv 2010-01-11 21:35|| 2010-01-11 21:35|| Front Page Top

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