Spy satellites could soon be able to identify someone from space by looking at their shadow.They would use a computer program that searches for the movement of shadows on the ground, and then identifies their owners from the way they walk. ...full story at digg
from digg on Fri, Sep 05 2008
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Shadow analysis could spot terrorists by their walk » digg Nearly seven years after Osama Bin Laden disappeared, US intelligence agencies are still chasing his shadow. And shadows are precisely what they should be looking for, says NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. |
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Shadow Analysis Could Spot Terrorists » slashdot Hugh Pickens writes "An engineer at Jet Propulsion Labs says it should be possible to identify people from the way they walk — a technique called gait analysis, whose power lies in the fact that a person's walking style is very hard to disguise.... |
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Could Solar Power Satellites Beam Down Gigawatts of Energy? » digg How pie-in-the-sky is Ben Bova's space satellite scheme? Mr. Bova, the president emeritus of the National Space Society and a prolific science fiction author, calling on the next president to build an armada of solar power satellites (SPS) -- basically... |
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The Shadow Space Race » slashdot vm writes "NOVA's recent documentary, "Astrospies," was written and co-produced by journalist and NSA expert, James Bamford. It details the U.S. Air Force's orbiting spy station program begun in the 1960s, the Manned Orbital Laboratory. Designed from a... |
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Using Flickr to teach computers to identify pictures » digg Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have plugged in to Flickr to create a database of over 6 million images tagged with geographic and text information. Using their software, they could take a random picture and identify where it was taken, give or... |
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