Eye charts for drones
From Jason Kottke:
Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG ruminates on optical calibration targets, weird landscape relics scattered across military bases made to check the resolution of cold war era photograph-snapping spy planes. You can find one target on Google Maps here.
"Although I am truly fascinated by what sorts of optical landmarks might yet be developed for field-testing the optical capabilities of drones, as if the world might soon be peppered with opthalmic infrastructure for ..., it is also quite intriguing to realize that these calibration targets are, in effect, ruins, obsolete sensory hold-overs from an earlier age of film-based cameras and less-powerful lenses. Calibrating nothing, they are now just curious emblems of a previous generation of surveillance technology, robot-readable hieroglyphs whose machines have all moved on."
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Comment by Harry on February 15, 2013 at 8:21pm -
OK, read the third line again.
Bar, Bar, Bar, Bar, Bar, Bar....
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Wiki Ninja Comment by Gary McCray on February 15, 2013 at 10:19pm -
Got to admit, Edwards is sort of where you might expect to find it.
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Comment by Jesper Rooth on February 16, 2013 at 1:38am -
@Harry - haha. so boring but still so funny. Best comment in years! :)
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Comment by Martin Poller on February 16, 2013 at 5:22am -
Would we be allowed to fly over to check our cameras, it's a bit of a hike for us in the UK though!
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Distributor Comment by UnmannedTechShop.co.uk on February 16, 2013 at 9:12am -
China have been doing some interesting stuff for the last few years on i giant scale http://g.co/maps/aqdar
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Wiki Ninja Comment by Gary McCray on February 16, 2013 at 2:02pm -
Martin, Judging by where that is relating to Edwards Air Force Base and the bombing range I'm going to hazard a guess: NO!
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Comment by Archangel06 on February 16, 2013 at 11:00pm -
Now THAT is cool!
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