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When will this tech reach the F-35? Shirley Soon. Very Happy

DARPA tests breakthrough camera tech 23 August 2012

http://defensetech.org/2012/08/23/darpa ... mera-tech/

"The scientists at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency want to build high powered scopes and cameras for soldiers and Marines up to 2,000 times more powerful than current imaging capabilities....

...Run under the Advanced Wide Field of View Architectures for Image Reconstruction and Exploitation (AWARE) program with Duke University, the recent test used a 1-gigapixel camera made up of 100 micro-cameras.

DARPA leaders want to eventually build a 50-gigapixel camera that would usher in the imaging capabilities that are 2,000 times more powerful than today’s cameras. The next step is to build a 10-gigapixel camera....

....Scientists and engineers understand the camera is no good to soldiers on the ground if it can’t work at night or in bad weather. These super cameras are being built for both.

DARPA officials have said they have seen major breakthroughs with their High Operating Temperature Mid-Wave Infrared (HOT MWIR), which will allow engineers to build more powerful hand held thermal imagers and long-range thermal scopes. The HOT MWIR developments also fall under AWARE...."

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BEST read entire article at URL above - if youse can read this. Rolling Eyes

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Information overload. Just ask the LSST team.

Shirley Onboard F-35 future computer systems will deal with the new DARPA camera tech? I'm not asking LSST anything thanks.

I don't even want to think about transmission speeds, unless suitable algorithms are developed to automatically cut to small FoVs for transmission purposes.

count_to_10 wrote:

Information overload. Just ask the LSST team.

http://www.lsst.org/lsst/
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
The data flow rate is hard to manage.

So what. We can imagine a possible future use where a lot of issues today have been overcome. Better computers are on the way also that don't require specific accuracy for calculation; but likely will be good enough for some specific purposes (as above). I'll post an URL to this new computer paradigm info if it can be found again. A possible future is what is the topic here NOT how bad the present day issues may be.

This passive technology can help us to identify the component weaknesses in the equipment fielded against us for our EW attacks. SEAD/ DEAD tactics are more effective with more precise/ accurate data acquisition. EO DAS merges will see a few generations of evolutions. 50 gigapixel will be a good start. Smile

southernphantom wrote:

I don't even want to think about transmission speeds, unless suitable algorithms are developed to automatically cut to small FoVs for transmission purposes.

The AESA radar can support broadband transmission speeds so maybe that's one possibility?

southernphantom wrote:

I don't even want to think about transmission speeds, unless suitable algorithms are developed to automatically cut to small FoVs for transmission purposes.

The AESA radar can support broadband transmission speeds so maybe that's one possibility?

spazsinbad wrote:

So what. We can imagine a possible future use where a lot of issues today have been overcome. Better computers are on the way also that don't require specific accuracy for calculation; but likely will be good enough for some specific purposes (as above). I'll post an URL to this new computer paradigm info if it can be found again. A possible future is what is the topic here NOT how bad the present day issues may be.

I didn't mean anything by it other than that data transmission rates will a limiting factor.

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DARPA tests breakthrough camera tech [for F-35 one day?]