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In the past couple of years, firefighters have gained a significant advantage: aircraft equipped with heat-detecting infrared sensors and special communication equipment now can relay to firefighting teams on the ground, in minutes, a fire's precise location, as well as where new "hotspots" are cropping up, even before they burst into visible flame.
Those aircraft used to have to fly at night, because you couldn't gather good thermal data during daylight hours," Johnson said. "Then you'd have to wait for the plane to land, and then for the thermal imagery to be processed. If we were lucky, we'd get that information on printed maps by 4 or 5 in the morning -- just maybe in time to brief firefighters before they went out on the line.
"Today those flights can happen in daylight with vastly improved accuracy, and incident commanders get that data electronically in two minutes on a computer-based map. We now have accurate, almost real-time situational awareness on the spot. That makes all the difference
They won't care. People have a paranoid aversion to drones. No matter how many times you try to beat it into their head, they just can't grasp that it's the same as using helicopters, which they mysteriously don't have a problem with.
They won't care. People have a paranoid aversion to drones. No matter how many times you try to beat it into their head, they just can't grasp that it's the same as using helicopters, which they mysteriously don't have a problem with.
You have got to be kidding me!
Helicopters are not the same as drones. Not even close.
Have you stop to think that maybe, just maybe, people actually value their PRIVACY???
In the past couple of years, firefighters have gained a significant advantage: aircraft equipped with heat-detecting infrared sensors and special communication equipment now can relay to firefighting teams on the ground, in minutes, a fire's precise location, as well as where new "hotspots" are cropping up, even before they burst into visible flame.
Those aircraft used to have to fly at night, because you couldn't gather good thermal data during daylight hours," Johnson said. "Then you'd have to wait for the plane to land, and then for the thermal imagery to be processed. If we were lucky, we'd get that information on printed maps by 4 or 5 in the morning -- just maybe in time to brief firefighters before they went out on the line.
"Today those flights can happen in daylight with vastly improved accuracy, and incident commanders get that data electronically in two minutes on a computer-based map. We now have accurate, almost real-time situational awareness on the spot. That makes all the difference
Oh... i thought this thread was going to be about Obama drones.
Yeah, satellites are very cool, and serve a lot of purposes. I think the ones people don't like, besides the aforementioned O-bots, are the government drones that serve only one purpose, to spy on the activity of citizens.
They won't care. People have a paranoid aversion to drones. No matter how many times you try to beat it into their head, they just can't grasp that it's the same as using helicopters, which they mysteriously don't have a problem with.
Well, no. Once again we see the far left attacking physical objects and assuming people have an objection to them rather than the potential abuse of their use by our federal government.
Drones, like any other technology, have the potential to be used for good or for evil. Obama and the USDA have shown the federal government is willing to abuse that power with drones early from the onset.
In contrast, the use of drones in fighting wild fires, search and rescue operations, patroling our unsecured borders, would be good applications where conditions may be too treacherous to send manned aircraft.
See the difference? As always, it is the application and the ethics of those employing it, not the technolgy itself.
Last edited by lifelongMOgal; 07-27-2012 at 10:03 AM..
Reason: typo
In what ways does a drone affect your privacy that a helicopter or a satellite that can read a license plate from 22,500 miles doesn't?
Helicopters, and especially satellites in geosynchronous orbit, are very expensive to operate, and are not used to willy-nilly spy on everyone, hoping to catch them doing something wrong.
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clueless lefties once again
