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....Digital
imaging technology, miniaturized computers, and numerous other technological
advances over the past decade have contributed to rapid advances in aerial
surveillance hardware such as micro-aerial vehicles, forward-looking infrared,
and high-resolution imagery capable of identifying objects at extremely
long distances. For instance, the MQ-9 Reaper,... a U.S. drone plane
used for domestic operations by the Department of Homeland Security, carries
cameras that are capable of identifying an object the size of a milk carton
from altitudes of 60,000 feet, and has forward-looking infrared devices
that can detect the heat from a human body at distances of up to 60 kilometers....
The
United States Department of Homeland Security is in the process of testing
UAVs to patrol the skies over the United States for the purposes of critical
infrastructure protection, border patrol, "transit monitoring", and general
surveillance of the U.S. population.... Miami-Dade police department
ran tests with a vertical take-off and landing UAV from Honeywell, which
is planned to be used in SWAT operations.... Houston's police
department has been testing fixed-wing UAVs for use in "traffic control".....
The
United Kingdom, as well, is working on plans to build up a fleet of surveillance
UAVs ranging from micro-aerial vehicles to full-size drones, to be used
by police forces throughout the U.K....
In
addition to their surveillance capabilities, MAVs are capable of carrying
tasers for "crowd control", or weapons for killing enemy combatants....
Programs
such as the Heterogenous [sic] Aerial Reconnaissance Team program developed
by DARPA [Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency editor] have
automated much of the aerial surveillance process. They have developed
systems consisting of large teams drone planes that pilot themselves, automatically
decide who is "suspicious" and how to go about monitoring them, coordinate
their activities with other drones nearby, and notify human operators if
something suspicious is occurring. This greatly increases the amount
of area that can be continuously monitored, while reducing the number of
human operators required. Thus a swarm of automated, self-directing
drones can automatically patrol a city and track suspicious individuals,
reporting their activities back to a centralized monitoring station....![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
An Excerpt From Satellite imagery
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On
May 25, 2007 the U.S. Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell
authorized the National Applications Office (NAO) of the Department of
Homeland Security to allow local, state, and domestic Federal agencies
to access imagery from military intelligence satellites and aircraft sensors
which can now be used to observe the activities of U.S. citizens.
The satellites and aircraft sensors will be able to penetrate cloud cover,
detect chemical traces, and identify objects in buildings and "underground
bunkers", and will provide real-time video at much higher resolutions than
the still-images produced by programs such as Google Earth....![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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