{"id":189541,"date":"2010-03-13T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/13\/somehow-i-think-that-this-is-another-nail-in-stealths-coffin\/"},"modified":"2010-03-13T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T03:50:00","slug":"somehow-i-think-that-this-is-another-nail-in-stealths-coffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/13\/somehow-i-think-that-this-is-another-nail-in-stealths-coffin\/","title":{"rendered":"Somehow, I Think that This is Another Nail in Stealth&#8217;s Coffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have before, I think that <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/death-of-stealth.html\">increases in computing power may have the effect of making stealth less effective<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wired<\/span> has an article about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/02\/ff_algorithm\">new and very powerful algorithm for imaging<\/a>, called compressed sensing, which uses the simplicity as a way to enhance images, the example they give is a non-military one, specifically the need to image the bile ducts of a small child to see if they were blocked, which required that he be heavily sedated and that his ventilator be shut down so as to keep him still.<\/p>\n<p>With conventional imaging, it would take over 2 minutes and risk brain damage to get the resolution required, but with the new algorithm, it took only 40 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>While this is an interesting possibility for many areas, I can see how this technique, when combined with data from multiple sensors could give a high resolution solution for an air defense system.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, going around the web, you see examples of <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/igorcarron2\/compressedsensinghardware\">single pixel cameras producing decent imagery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These guys see the primary application being low power, and non visible light, where massive arrays become impractical, but I think that military applications will come, and anti-stealth is a likely direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have before, I think that increases in computing power may have the effect of making stealth less effective. Well, Wired has an article about a new and very powerful algorithm for imaging, called compressed sensing, which uses the simplicity as a way to enhance images, the example they give is a non-military one, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}