Back in 2001, and earlier as a less pursued thought experiment, I started researching a project I named Overseer. That particular project, because I don’t have TOP-SECRET clearance [and every project that requires military equipment also requires higher levels of clearance] never went very far. I simply don’t have the resources to make things happen like this, at least not yet. Well, Overseer was a project designed to track individuals in real time, and integrate target tracking across multiple surveillance vehicles flying overhead. Well, ARGUS-IS now exists, but it wasn’t me that made it happen. I file these things under “The One that Got Away” and I could go on and on about that kind of stuff.
I seriously need to get in the research and development loop of large corporations and/or the government because everything that is coming to fruition now is stuff I’ve done preliminary research on. But I did it from 4-18 years ago.
My method was to use remote controlled high-altitude trackers and when a person leaves one surveillance sector, and crosses into another, the new tracker pings the operator to let them know. A secondary camera can allow individual operators to zoom into an area for close up monitoring, and, in the particular case of Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, should the person plant a bomb or set a trap of some kind, the historical data of the tracker can deduce the beginning and ending location of said person. I loved that idea. The ARGUS system even covers the same range, duration, altitude, and ability to zoom specific areas at operator will that I had proclaimed should be possible. One primary limit is the number of zones that can be tracked, I had hoped for a limit of 255, but they have a limit of 64.
All of this is great… only 6 years too late.
It should have been deployed into the middle east conflicts when they started.
So, I chalk another project up as “good job” to someone else.
One of the problems with anyone doing things solo is that they can look at all of the solicitations that are available, but they can’t do anything with them because one person won’t even be looked at. You have to be a small army.