Talk:Gorgon Stare

This article needs to be created, here are some articles that describe it http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/01/28/321732/usaf-to-unleash-gorgon-stare-sensor-in-2010.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/01/AR2011010102690_pf.html Claymorde (talk) 22:10, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

This Air Force Times article http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2009/02/airforce_WAAS_021609/ covers Gorgon Stare. Confirms development cost of $15 million, infrared and visible imagery, 1100 pound weight.

There is an overall project that is developing many iterations of wide angle aerial surveillance systems. The first system is the one described at that link I just gave.

The second system is ARGUS-IS, which is visible light only, 65 video feeds down, 1.8 gigapixels, 4 lenses with aligned optical axes pointed straight down. Lead contractor is BAE, but the system design and maybe electronics and software seems to have been done by ObjectVideo in San Diego. I don't have the DARPA BAA link for ARGUS-IS.

There is a third system, which is called ARGUS-IR, https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=c2cd8c1d90f64bc096a7c09ce1501c89, which will be lighter (<510 pounds total), lower power (<2500 watts), smaller (<30 inch cube for gimbal), lower resolution (30 cm GSD rather than 15cm) and see in infrared (either 3-5 um or 8-12 um). Phase 1 and 2 will have 200-300 megapixels, phase 3 will have 400-600 megapixels. Note that this is very different from ARGUS-IS: tiny 5 megapixel visible light sensors are $20 from digikey. High resolution infrared sensors would have to be developed (>$1m). Also, they want to build it with one telescope and a spare focal plane array, and then jitter the image across the spare focal plane at 5 Hz or more to get complete coverage. Wow. I can't imagine how that seemed to be a good idea.

Iain McClatchie (talk) 23:02, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

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