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Military Turns To NFL Games For Tips On Getting Drone Data.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/business...tml?ref=science

 

They are even testing some of the splashier techniques used by broadcasters, like the telestrator that John Madden popularized for scrawling football plays. It could be used to warn troops about a threatening vehicle or to circle a compound that a drone should attack.

 

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So Cmdr. Joseph A. Smith, a Navy officer assigned to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which sets standards for video intelligence, said he and other officials had climbed into broadcast trucks outside football stadiums to learn how the networks tagged and retrieved highlight film.

 

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They are even testing some of the splashier techniques used by broadcasters, like the telestrator that John Madden popularized for scrawling football plays. It could be used to warn troops about a threatening vehicle or to circle a compound that a drone should attack.

John Madden voice : "So you see here, here's the bad guys. But over here are our guys with a rpg. Now if they shoot it in this direction at this angle, BOOM! You blow up up or maim the bad guys and can get right through to the endzone, I mean target."

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