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Created by Craig Blaha (University of Texas at Austin) on November 30, 2005

Like something out of "Minority Report" or 1984 -

from Wired News:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69612,00.html?tw=rss.TEK

A leading defense contractor has successfully demonstrated a system that lets foot soldiers command unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, to see real-time overhead images on their handheld computers while fighting in urban battle zones.

Individual war fighters can receive video-surveillance data on a target of interest by moving a cursor over the subject, as part of a Northrop Grumman system to automate reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition, or RSTA, within urban environments.


 
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