U.S. Military Turns To TV For Surveillance Technology -- L.A. Times
The Air Force is looking at the technology that powers NFL broadcasts and TV news to see if it can be used to catalog information from the cameras of its drone fleet.
Reporting from Washington — As it rapidly expands its drone program over Afghanistan, the U.S. military is turning to the technology that powers NFL broadcasts, ESPN and TV news to catalog a flood of information coming from the cameras of its fleet of unmanned aircraft.
U.S. military archives hold 24 million minutes of video collected by Predators and other remotely piloted aircraft that have become an essential tool for commanders. But the library is largely useless because analysts often have no way of knowing exactly what they have, or any way to search for information that is particularly valuable.
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My Comment: The line that got my attention was the following .... 24 million minutes of video collected by Predators .... not that is a lot of video feed, and growing with each passing day.
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