Posted on 11/07/2014 9:41:50 AM PST by Seizethecarp
DESOTO COUNTY, MS (WMC) -
You might expect to find an army in DeSoto County ... an army of drones, that is. A Southaven man has an army of hand-crafted drones, all controlled from inside of his customized command center.
Estes built drones that provide infrared thermal imaging; they also detect human movement inside of a home or car. And what he is doing is legal.
"You can do good things with this, or you can do bad things with this," Estes acknowledged.
Estes wrote letters to the Federal Aviation Administration about his drone capabilities. Right now, the FAA requires personal users of drones to fly under 400 feet, but Estes says he can fly thousands of feet higher.
Some of his neighbors worry what this technology could do if it is placed in the wrong hands.
"I don't need someone looking inside my house," said Dorothy Murray, who is a mother of six. "It's an invasion of my privacy."
But Estes says he is not an outlaw. He's flown drones for missing person's cases, bridge inspections, emergency training, even international police agencies.
"If you were looking for a missing person in a 100 acre field, you could pull up Google Earth and grid that 100 acre field," he explained.
Some people can see the good in access to this technology.
"I think that it could be a real good thing," said Hazel Myers.
"If you had a missing child, I can assure you that you would want something like this looking for them," Estes added.
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Neighborhood watch via drone command center?
I guess that is the new inevitable next step in protecting the local environment in some areas for those who know they have never been able to rely on the police for protection, despite what it says on all of the cars and shields.
The time will come that we all have drones capable of looking what our neighbors are doing after they turn off the lights.
Ping.
Or it will be so available that you can make your own.
Here’s my question: Why add more surveillance when people can slip through it.
Great for criminals to know when the house is empty.
Great for stalkers to know when the stalkee is home.
Civilian Drones - Search and Rescue
Texas EquuSearch
Long video, but very, very worthwhile if you want to understand the value of civilian drones in search & rescue!
The just did a South Park episode on this. Was pretty funny.
Consider electronic warfare in drone control pitting narcos and people smugglers against the hacker kids of American volunteer border watch personnel. With contests and prizes.
As I recall, the winner of the first Chinese hacker convention grand prize was a professor who showed how to steal a Tesla using a smart phone.
It used to be called natural, now I’m the freak?
That was funny.
Will it pick up what people are doing in the house if the attic is 145 degrees in the summer?
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we are watching you.....sounds like (Soviet) Russia
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