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Police Scotland has unveiled a new aerial drone system to help in searches for missing and vulnerable people.
The remotely-piloted aircraft system (RPAS) can see things we can't to try to work out where people are.
It uses advanced cameras and neural computer networks to spot someone it is looking for - from "a speck" up to 150 metres away.
Its recognition software is compact enough to be run on a phone, with the technology learning as it goes.
"The drone itself has very special sensors on it," said Insp Nicholas Whyte, of Police Scotland's air support unit.
"There's a very highly-powered optical camera which can allow us to see things quite clearly from a good height. Also, there's a thermal imaging sensor which detects heat.
"We're there to find people. People who need our help or people who are lost."
The system is the result of a collaboration involving Police Scotland, the technology multinational Thales and the University of the West of Scotland (UWS).
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @04:28AM (3 children)
It's such a shame the Troubles had to end; spy drones would be so perfect to track Irish terrorists.
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Tuesday November 05 2019, @01:21PM
Don't worry, the Brexiteers are currently working hard on restarting them.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @02:00PM (1 child)
They're Irish... you just had to walk into any pub.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @04:44PM
In London, at the rump end of the IRA's bombing campaign, I was on a bit of a pub crawl (not that an uncommon occurrence..being of the one, true 'mixed blood'...Scots-Irish...squared, if you want to include the Catholic-Protestant family mix), got to the Wimbledon area, spotted a rather nice old large pub, headed in its direction to be pulled back by one of my Irish mates and was told, nope, Irish only, even then, only certain Irish only, even himself, a Republican, wasn't welcome, as he wasn't Republican enough.(probably just as well I didn't get in, had I gotten drunk enough, I'd have tried winding the buggers up by mentioning that my mother's Irish Catholic aunt married a Black and Tan...).
There wasn't any overt sign that this was an 'Irish Pub' no 'Plastic Paddy' trappings..was told that a good way back then of telling who 'ran' any pub in England was to check if the Guinness on tap was from London or Dublin.
What I also remember from back then, there were more Aussies in your average random London pub than Irish..obviously, areas like Brixton and Kilburn were exceptions..legendary pub crawls in the Oxford and Abingdon areas years later, don't recall many Irish around (especially in Abingdon pubs, again, for obvious reasons) but, plenty of Aussies again...From Gladgow pub crawls, there are pubs where wearing anything green will get you refused service (best outcome..) and any Irish accent other than Ulster will get you 'ejected'.