By Victoria Gill, BBC
The camera was already trained on the two insurgents before the people watching the monitors had even spotted them. As they parked their vehicles and removed a large package from the back, it zoomed in and followed them. The two men moved across a patch of vegetation that made them trickier to see, so the surveillance monitor automatically switched to thermal imaging and followed them closely as they tried to conceal themselves behind a building. The suspicious pair were in fact actors. This was an experiment. But the imaging forms part of what the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) says will be used by soldiers within five years – a package of surveillance systems that can recognise insurgents or terrorists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10175960.stm
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