by Scientists in China have built up the most powerful spy camera in the world, which can recognize the faces of the people from the orbit with low earth.
The technology developed by a team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences could determine new standards for global surveillance and offer a resolution at a millimeter level from 100 kilometers (62 miles).
First registered in the South Chinese morning postOptical imaging technology could also make Beijing possible to observe foreign military satellites and earth-based defense structures in the unprecedented details.
The laser imaging system was able to achieve detailed levels that are 100 times better than the leading spy cameras that use lenses.
A test by Lockheed Martin in the USA in 2011 achieved a resolution of 2 centimeters from 1.6 km.
When the new camera was tested over a 101.8 km section of the Qinghai lake in the northwest China, it revealed details on the other side of the lake, which is only 1.7 mm.
However, the lowest heights in which satellites with low earth are operated by 170 km are started around 800 km.
The scientists found that the test over the lake took place in almost perfect weather conditions, which means that bad weather or even a light cloud cover could influence the accuracy of the camera.
The spy camera was reached in a new study entitled “Synthetic Aperture Lidar for the first time” in the Chinese Journal of Lasers.
The US satellite imaging startup Albedo Space also works on the technology to enlarge individual people on earth, although the founders claim that this will not be able to recognize facial recognition.
The company has already secured several defense contracts with the US government, which is characterized by the supporters of privacy.
In 2019, the Electronic Frontier Foundation called for regulation on espionage satellites and argued that they violated the bourgeois freedom of the people.
“With the advent of real -time videos, private satellites could entertain the whole world of continuous monitoring around the clock,” warned the group.
