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posted by chromas on Tuesday November 05 2019, @04:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the aerial-mesh dept.

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).


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @07:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @07:10AM (#916161)

    "We're there to find people. People who need our help or people who are lost."

    People we have orders to hit with a missile from a drone, because the US Military is all about following orders and assassinating the enemies of The House of Saud.

    Ferking Mercenaries! Hope they all die before they get any Veteran benefit, and I say this as a Vet myself. The Nuremberg Tribunals set the standards, soliders! If you do not know what that means, your training is defective, and perhaps it is time to ask, "why"?

    Soldiers are not assassins. Assassins are not soldiers. (Hint: They are pot smokers!) Hired killers are not soldiers. Soldiers are not hired killers. George W. Bush is a mercenary bastard, and he knows it. All hat, no cattle; all bravado, no courage.

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