Publisher's Letter Argus could be a potent crime fighter

摘要

This month we have another story from Dr David Mad-dison, on the Argus-1S Wide Area Persistent Surveillance System. It is great story on the adaptation of consumer electronics, using hundreds of 5-megapixel camera sensors in a huge matrix which becomes a camera with a mind-boggling pixel count. But the picture resolution is only half the story because Argus can watch possibly hundreds of specific targets, looking for behaviour which is out of the ordinary. This generates stupendous amounts of data which can be analysed later to watch and trace specific events.