I don't mean to confuse anybody. When I say FLIR, I am talking about current tech.
When talking about high res photography, it is still emergent tech. This has just been developed and the web has very little info on it. I read a blurb about a company whose name escapes me which just developed this tech. The DEA and Feds are very interested in it. It uses NEAR INFRA RED tech. and can take a high resolution facial shot in complete darkness from a telephoto lens. One can only wonder what they will do with it. The small article appeared in the Wall Street Journal but the focus was on the companies profitability not the technology per se. I will see if I can slog through their archives and find it....
Good luck,
out.
The problem with near infrared is that it is easily detected because the human eye can pick it up. And like infrared, near infrared will not penerate anything but glass.
Ok so I decided to take a deeper look into this arena to see what the chaps at the Get Smart Control HQ have been up to.
If there is any tech being developed of used by the military to image through solid objects it will be based around the microwave spectra of the electromagnetic spectrum not the infrared range.
Microwaves have limited penetration capabilities, for instance most walls can be penetrated by radar signals, which are in the microwave spectra.
But if you go blasting radar down onto civilian housing these days, as opposed to 15 years ago, we're going to notice it. It will knock out anything using the microwave range of frequencies including the 2.4ghz spectrum, wireless telephones, wireless internet etc which of course was not around 15 years or more ago.
What them military chaps are playing with however is something called Ultra Wideband Short-Pulse Radar. Using microwaves in the same way the CDMA cellular system scatters packet data across a range of frequencies. Ultra Wideband Short-Pulse Radar is a variant on your basic storebought 7/11 radar systems
. Obviously transmitting in 'short pulses'.
It will allow them to image through solid objects that aren't metalic without disturbing other systems using that range of the microwave spectra, and thats your basic see through the wall imaging system.
Why the cops keep on about FLIR has to be in my opinion a diversion duping us into thinking we would be protected by using thermal blanketing such as thermal protection versions of mylar and other ways of masking heat.
With microwave tech its not about heat at all. Like any wireless router can transmit to another room, thus the microwave signal it is transmitting penetrates through the wall. So it is with this pulsing system and it is being used to image objects through walls.
One product being offered around the military and in police circles is called RadarVision 2000, which by the way has been marketed to the police since 2002, and does just that, images through walls.
Allegedly this is RadarVision 2000 in action seeing through the soft skin of a truck.
Meanwhile since then they have been keeping everyone focussed on heat signature masking against FLIR...which will not do a dam thing to protect us against Ultra Wideband Short-Pulse Radar.
But before we all go live underground, there is a brightside to all of this....
Like anything you put in your microwave oven that causes all them wonderful sparks, Ultra Wideband Short-Pulse Radar has the same problem with metals. The problem is not in the tech, its the spectrum that will not penerate metal and instead fully reflects the pulses, as what happens in your microwave.
Solid metallic walls are completely opaque to the radar frequencies used in these imaging systems. The pulses are completely blocked even by aluminum foil such as that used in insulating houses and there is nothing anyone can do, not even all the trillions of dollars in the world, that will be able to cause the microwave spectrum to change its spots on that one.
Also it is still unkown to me whether or not they have developed something similar to RadarVision 2000 that can work at distance like from a helicopter. As it stands those devices and several variants that have entered the military, counter terrorism and police arena are still hand held and have limited range.
