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Re:The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security by wcunning on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:17PM (#20823041)
Gorgon Stare springs immediately to mind. I certainly can't afford a multi-day in the air drone carrying a 30 lbs mutli-million megapixel wide camera [0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare

Re:The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security by Retric on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @07:56PM (#20825333)
It’s not a single multi million mega pixel camera. “ARGUS is essentially 368 five-megapixel smartphone cameras clustered together” That’s a 1,840 megapixel (1.85 gigapixel) camera which is not that extreme and in line with several of these images: https://petapixel.com/tag/gigapixel/

A lot of confusion comes because it’s a combination of multiple different cameras than capture wide angles, infrared, and a separate camera that can focus on areas of interest within the field of view. So, if the entire image was at maximum resolution you would get into insane territory, but that’s not how it works.

Re:The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security by jascii on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @06:48PM (#20824851)
Obviously the military has "toys" I cant afford, however, do you see any fundamental technologies in that imaging system that are not available to consumers? Even the quoted development cost of $15 Milion are not out of range for a well funded tech startup..