Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Overwhelmed With Data Feeds, Military Turns To NFL Broadcast Tricks For Highlighting Drone Targets

Analyzing Targets Keeping watch on imagery intelligence.
U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson


From Popular Science:

War is no game, but it could learn a trick or two from football.

A growing swarm of drones keep watch on the battlefield, but military analysts struggle to watch every second of live surveillance footage so that they can quickly pass on warnings about ambushes or possible targets to warfighters. Now the U.S. military has turned to ESPN and Fox Sports to learn how to quickly identify and transmit the video highlights, the New York Times reports.

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My Comment: I love the NFL analogy .... because it is a good idea.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hello! Best idea, but will this really work?