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Thursday, September 04, 2008

Terrorist ID From Space by How They Walk Possible

Wow! NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says it's possible to identify individual terrorists by computer analysis of HOW THEY WALK LOOKING ONLY AT THEIR SHADOWS. The idea of identifying people using "gait analysis" has been around a little while. But doing it from space looking at shadows is new, but would require higher-resolution cameras than currently exist on satellites.

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