Camera that Sees through Smoke and Fog Underway

tomschuring writes "The Age has a story about IATIA, who have been given $2.7 million by the Defence Department to fund development of a military spy camera capable of seeing through fog, smoke and dust storms. The technology uses a highly sophisticated camera that captures three images simultaneously through a single lens. Images thus resolved from between the particles making up fog, smoke, and dust storms are formed into a single picture of the hidden target."

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[loid_void]

if it can what it says, there will be many other uses for this little camera; no doubt coming soon to a cellphone, I'm sure...

Re:3D?

[lakcaj]

Are you trying to sound:

A. Funny?
B. Stupid?
C. A little from A and a little from B?

Re:density

[aggiefalcon01]

I guess this could be used on cars given enough processor speed, but it's really not applicable in this case, as it yields additional information about something in a plane (parallel to the sensor of the imaging device -- imagine a brick wall ahead of you when driving). When driving, the plane, say, 50m ahead of the car is moving just as fast as you are, and seeing ultra-crisp images of that plane for the instant that it is 50m ahead would be of dubious utility imo.

Yes, but a car equipped with a beowulf cluster of these to focus on a whole lot of planes ...