US Military Scientists Explore Infrared Sensors as Invisible Headlights for Drones
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19:00 GMT 28.02.2020Get short URL
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A US programme seeks to develop super-sensitive infrared sensors with algorithms that could allow vehicles to navigate in total darkness, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced in a press release on Friday.
"The fundamental research effort seeks to discover and quantify information contained in ambient thermal emissions in a wide variety of environments and to create new passive 3D sensors and algorithms to exploit that information", the release said.
Since everything gives off some thermal energy, the release said, the goal is to discover what information can be captured and develop algorithms to transform that information into 3D images for navigation.
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