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DARPA Wants Technology That Could Help Troops See Through Walls

May 29, 2015 /

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The Pentagon’s emerging technology arm is looking into systems that could reconstruct a 3-D image of a scene from a single vantage point, including objects not visible in the line-of-sight.

This technology, according to a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announcement, might eventually help troops prepare for hidden threats — assailants hidden behind barriers, for instance.

DARPA is soliciting research proposals on ways to extract more information from light particles than cameras typically do. The light particles, called photons, carry many layers of information about their surroundings — but traditional imaging systems such as cameras only gather a fraction of this information, according to DARPA.

By Mohana Ravindranath

Full Story: http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2015/05/darpa-wants-technology-could-help-troops-see-through-walls/113890/

Many thanks to Roger Hopkins for sharing this.