1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World's highest resolution video surveillance platform by DARPA

1 million terabytes a day saved forever.

The ARGUS array is made up of several cameras and other types of imaging systems. The output of the imaging system is used to create extremely large, 1.8GP high-resolution mosaic images and video.

The U.S. Army, along with
Boeing, has developed and is preparing to deploy a new unmanned aircraft
called the "Hummingbird." It's is a VTOL-UAS (vertical take-off and
landing unmanned aerial system). Three of them are being deployed to
Afghanistan for a full year to survey and spy on Afghanistan from an
altitude of 20,000 feet with the ability to scan 25 square miles of
ground surface.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveill...

From Rise of the Drones
Meet a new breed of flying robots, from tiny swarming vehicles to giant unmanned planes. Aired January 23, 2013 on PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military...

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[MatureFister]

and their goes our privacy...

[15Sebastiannn]

Heeeeeeeeeeeere comessss the police state!

[VegasFirefly17]

Are you fucking kidding me? The Nazis would be better than the US? Your ignorance astounds me. Yes, our country is way too involved in the Middle East and our foreign spending is way too high. But at least the US isn't sending people to concentration camps or committing genocide. That's what the Nazis would be doing if they had won. I'm not a nationalist who chants USA; I don't support everything my country does. I just think that it's asinine to assume the Nazis would be more benign than the US

[ZvloHD]

its just mpc isnt it

[ZvloHD]

if u read the title then nope

[kurtnelle]

Ah, I see that people didn't understand my comment about normal gigapixel photography. When I said "normal" gigapixel tech, I mean the normal way of doing gigapixel photography (with many cameras), as opposed to a giant imaging sensor that is a gigapixel.

[reculture]

we have privacy ...aaaaaand its gone!

[Canoe571]

By the time the military shows the public something which is cutting edge technology, it has been put to pasture and replaced with something better which you have no idea exists.

[MatureFister]

mega < giga

[Brady Maheux]

And *there goes grammar...

[kurtnelle]

meh, it's normal gigapixel technology; I thought it was some new tech.

[TheAdamie]

AMEN! LONG LIVE LIBERTY!