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Unmanned Airborne Video Surveillance
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on Thursday January 12, @12:09PM
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Directions Mag have an article about airborne video surveillance. From the article's introduction: "Real-time video images and videos have become an increasingly important source of information for remote surveillance, intelligence gathering, situational awareness, and decision-making. With airborne video surveillance, the ability to associate geospatial information with imagery intelligence allows decision makers to view the geographic context of the situation, track and visualize events as they unfold, and predict possible outcomes as the situation develops." The Surveying, Mapping and GIS blog has an entry about this booming market.
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The Maps Room links to an open source quadrocopter project which allows you to acquire aerial imagery at low cost. From the site: "The OSQ ( Open Source Quattrocopter) is a remote controlled, partly autonomously flying four-rotor flight-unit, which can be adjusted to the user requests .
So that UAV - construction is absolutely modular and unique.
Due to the electronic positioning control-unit this extremely light and quiet flight platform is applicable without previous helicopter operating experience.
The airborne OSQ will be controlled like a common helicopter with helicommand assistance.
If there´s no pilot-command - OSQ keeps flightlevel and -direction . When GPS is activated the position too." See previous related stories below.
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