This is absolutely incredible. I am on the one hand highly impressed with the technical ability presented here, but painfully aware that such a tool in the hands of the wrong (((people))) would be devastating to put down any unrest.
> The system was built around an assembly of four to six commercially available industrial imaging cameras, synchronized and positioned at different angles, then attached to the bottom of a plane. As the plane flew, computers stabilized the images from the cameras, stitched them together and transmitted them to the ground at a rate of one per second. This produced a searchable, constantly updating photographic map that was stored on hard drives. His elevator pitch was irresistible: “Imagine Google Earth with TiVo capability.”
> Individual recognition, however, wasn’t the point; any dot could be followed backward or forward in time, which opened up all sorts of investigative possibilities.
reminder that the massed persistent ISR used in "GWOT" was called the unblinking eye:
>The Unblinking Eye provides an opportunity to learn about the network in action and how it operates. It is long dwell, persistent surveillance directed against known and suspected terrorist sites or individuals. The purpose of this long dwell airborne stakeout is to apply multisensor observation 24/7 to achieve a greater understanding of how the enemy’s network operates by building a pattern of life analysis. This is an important concept and has proven itself time and again with hundreds of examples of successful raids.
Tyler Parker
Should have made myself more clear. The term "unblinking eye" is the exact military term they used. It's not just a metaphor.
My post here is from the paper, "Employing ISR: SOF Best Practices". Google it. It's uploaded to a .mil site, and the paper can't be archived, so you'll have to download it yourselves.
Josiah Long
The "dot" stuff in the OP is also to do with nodal analysis and vehicle/entity follows.
>Nodal analysis is spatially connecting relationships between places and people by tracking their patterns of life. While the enemy moves from point to point, airborne ISR tracks and notes every location and person visited. Connections between those sites and persons to the target are built, and nodes in the enemy’s low-contrast network emerge. Nodal analysis has the effect of taking a shadowy foe and revealing his physical infrastructure for things such as funding, meetings, headquarters, media outlets, and weapons supply points. As a result, the network becomes more visible and vulnerable, thus negating the enemy’s asymmetric advantage of denying a target. Nodal analysis uses the initial start point to generate additional start points that develop even more lines of operation into the enemy’s network. The payoff of this analysis is huge but requires patience to allow the network’s picture to develop over a long term and accept the accompanying risk of potentially losing the prey.
>Vehicle follow is tracking vehicle movements from the air. These are important in illustrating the network and generating fix-finish operations. A recent Office of the Secretary of Defense study over a multimonth period found that vehicle follows were important to building pattern of life and nodal analysis. 7 Vehicle follows were surprisingly central to understanding how a network functions. They are also among the most difficult airborne ISR operations to conduct and often require massing of assets to ensure adequate tracking.
Nicholas Martin
bump
Reminder that the future is video related. Cyberpunk totalitarian death squad cops with UNBLINKING EYE ISR manhunting violent warlord street gangs who dindu nuffin.
Tyler Evans
I'd have to chase down the source, but I swear I read that cops in NYC had a similar system to this using CCTV. Again, fascinating but terrifying.
Joshua Rogers
This should end well.
Owen Hall
The whole world is a lie, OP.
Parker Gray
Found it.
> When a license plate reader sends an alert, analysts at headquarters communicate the information to cops on the street. With the push of a button, the DAS system's dashboard can geo-spatially map each location in the city where a plate reader has spotted the car in the past five years, said Jessica Tisch, the NYPD's director of counterterrorism policy and planning, who demonstrated the dashboard for Reuters recently.
