Augmented Google Earth Gets Real-Time People, Cars, Clouds
September 30th, 2009The surveillance side of this is the chickenfeed. There’s something far more sinister than the simple surveillance… an angle we haven’t heard about yet.
Tice never did tell his story to Congress about this different aspect of the program.
Well, my guess is that it has something to do with providing surveillance data for this SEAS World Sim thing, and that individual Americans are being watched and potentially targeted with it. Tice’s background seems to involve a lot of traditional electronic warfare, radar and ELINT stuff. Maybe Tice’s deal involved the collection of the mobile phone GPS and/or triangulation data which would provide realtime spacial/geographic data to the SEAS system. In other words, SEAS sees you. They could bring up a map of a city and plot your path based on the information that your phone is exchanging with the mobile network.
—Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation
Via: Popular Science:
Researchers from Georgia Tech have devised methods to take real-time, real-world information and layer it onto Google Earth, adding dynamic information to the previously sterile Googlescape.
They use live video feeds (sometimes from many angles) to find the position and motion of various objects, which they then combine with behavioral simulations to produce real-time animations for Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth.
They use motion capture data to help their animated humans move realistically, and were able to extrapolate cars’ motion throughout an entire stretch of road from just a few spotty camera angles.
From their video of an augmented virtual Earth, you can see if the pickup soccer game in the park is short a player, how traffic is on the highway, and how fast the wind is blowing the clouds across the sky.
Up next, they say they want to add weather, birds, and motion in rivers.
They will present their paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality next month, but you can read a draft PDF here.
Research Credit: JB
Please make it stop!
Here’s another one that makes me think “we should have never come down from the trees”.
The Age Of Telekinetic Cyborg Monkeys Is Upon Us
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-09/age-telekenetic-cyborg-monkeys-upon-us
Wondering whether one can request Google to take their sky pictures off their website re invasion of privacy?
We’ve already got the Air National Guard flying their big flucking B whatever over our house and using it as a marker for their training exercises. Every day M-Fr the big plane just flies over and over and over.
I said to them tonight, while covering the plants for frost protection ( 2 weeks earlier than normal btw) will you just stop flying over our house?
I know that sounds dumb, but if there’s all this weird fletching tech shite out there, those trainees must have heard me by now and are making notes on my resistance.
from a few years back:
what *is* it with these popsci editors?
popular science? popular to whom? who is the mag’s market?
and then there’s this on space surveillance:
Space Surveillance
The Bush NSP does provide updated and improved language in several areas, most notably, as referenced above, regarding space surveillance. There is a new emphasis on providing U.S. space surveillance data and situational awareness analysis – gathered by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network and managed by Air Force Space Command – to non-military users, including foreign governments and commercial companies. The policy states that the Defense Department shall:
“Have responsibility for space situational awareness; in this capacity, the Secretary of Defense shall support the space situational awareness requirements of the Director of National Intelligence and conduct space situational awareness for: the United States Government; U.S. commercial space capabilities and services used for national and homeland security purposes; civil space capabilities and operations, particularly human space flight activities; and, as appropriate, commercial and foreign space entities.”
i might add that my first comment here is from a Livejournal post i made a couple of years ago. it also held a link to an interesting article from al gore. -which has since been taken down due to ‘copyright expiration’…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/may/24/comment.usa
A drive for global domination has put us in greater danger
Moral authority, which is our greatest source of strength, has been recklessly put at risk by this wilful president
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