American long-range surveillance drones are keeping an eye on things, too (and it would be a good hunting ground for their armed siblings).
A parliamentary investigative panel found serious gaps in the Indian Navy and Coast Guard's ability to monitor sea routes because of a lack of long-range surveillance equipment, including aircraft, according to The Indian Express.
Okay, so here's the third question in today's quiz: From a local base in which country did US Global Hawk drones fly long-range surveillance missions between late 2001 and at least 2006?
The impact of wind turbines on radar had been a back-burner concern for years, but it heated up in March, when the Defense Department put a last-minute halt to the $2 billion, 338-turbine Shepherds Flat wind project in Oregon out of concern the turbines would impair the effectiveness of long-range surveillance radar.
The hundreds of miles of border defined by the Rio Grande are difficult to patrol, with citrus groves, dense fields of rippling sugar cane and thickets of mesquite trees that make it impenetrable to the long-range surveillance cameras affixed to tall towers, which have been effective in parts of Arizona.
And Japan's nuclear firms look no readier than American ones to risk India's burgeoning nuclear-power industry until tough Indian liability laws, in case of an accident, are rewritten.Another possible deal, which would be highly significant if it comes off, is the sale of 15 Japanese amphibious US-2 aircraft to India for its navy to use for long-range surveillance, rescue and support.
Ironically, the world's power sector is being broken up as a result of the technological fall-out from the cold war: the power turbine and the microchip.The power turbine, a spin-off from long-range surveillance aircraft, shattered the myth that only the big can generate electricity.
Stewart was "one of a dozen 'soldier-scientists' assigned by the National Guard Bureau to an elite company, the U.S. Army's 143rd Infantry Detachment, Long-Range Surveillance, for a 1-year tour of duty.
To improve contrast between dim target region and background in infrared (IR) long-range surveillance, this paper proposes a fast image enhancement approach using saliency feature extraction based on multi-scale decomposition.
One of the most notable units to operate out of a FOB was the brigade's 74th Long-Range Surveillance (LRS) detachment.
