Exploitation Technology (URGENT)" DARPA is planning a brief to industry on another new initiative, "Urban Reasoning and Geospatial Exploitation Technology (URGENT)": http://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/SN07%2D16/Synopsis.html In a nutshell, "We've got baseline models for what the ground looks like in urban environments; we can use air- and spaceborne imagery and radar to figure out where person-sized objects are against that." According to the published synopsis, "The URGENT goal is to achieve a 100x increase in analyst productivity with equal or better accuracy compared to the unassisted human image analyst." Looking at the DoD solicitations over the past several years, there's been a great deal of emphasis on sensors/analysis aimed at detection/ tracking of individuals; not at all surprising (e.g., focusing on insurgents, and not Soviet tanks), but worth keeping in mind, vis-a- vis the issues of civilian surveillance and privacy/anonymity/freedom of association/assembly in our republic. Ross ---- Ross Stapleton-Gray, Ph.D. Stapleton-Gray & Associates, Inc. http://www.stapleton-gray.com http://www.sortingdoor.com ------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen@leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: Archives: http://archives.listbox.com/247/ Modify Your Subscription: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=125019&user_secret=59fc1126 Unsubscribe: http://v2.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?id=125019-59fc1126-lv7wdhq1 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]