Full motion video is possible, but not for long as it uses a lot of bandwidth and storage. Also, the geometry of satellites is such that, depending upon their orbit, they can only provide good images of a single point on the ground for a limited amount of time. More likely, if a particular human can be identified (unlikely from space), one could use a sort of time-based synthetic aperture to build up knowledge of that person's activities. UAVs are much more likely to be used to track a particular individual in real-time.
Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> SIPR: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (send NIPR reminder) On Jan 16, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: Re: satellites: they have very high resolution but I'm not sure they have a high frame rate .. ie could "track" an individual. -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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