DARPA's 1.8 gigapixel drone camera could see you waving at it from 15,000 feet (video)

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/darpas-18-gigapixel-drone-camera-could-see-you-waving-at-it-from-15-000-feet/272796/ / Defense Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency experimental 1.8-gigapixel surveillance video camera ARGUS-IS PBS video drone hang out at 15,000 feet over a small city-sized area roughly half of Manhattan provide video surveillance machine vision moving objects generating structured data out of  video displaying the pictures branch of government corporation Google American city Big Data analysis criminals consumers display behavior that can be spotted at that distance, helping them deploy police marketing promotion on the ground more effectively collateral data technology widely deployed in a country with a more repressive government /