A new project called UFODATA starting up

[earthman]

Just seen this on facebook. It is a crowd funded science project aimed at collecting data through ground stations around the globe. Here is the link to there site. http://www.ufodata.net/

[A99]

A very worthwhile endeavor indeed!

The UFODATA Project

Our goal is to exploit this technological convergence by building a large network of automated surveillance stations with sophisticated sensors that will monitor the skies 24/7 looking for aerial anomalies. After over two years of developing our ideas, making plans, and testing relevant technologies we are now ready to move into the next phase – a ‘proof of concept’ by developing our first working prototype of a fully functioning monitoring station. This station will have a core optical unit with cameras capable of detecting and recording both an image and spectra, a magnetic sensing unit, instrumentation to detect microwave and other radiation, and other sensors to record atmospheric and local environmental data. Alarm triggers will initiate recording by all the equipment, permitting capture of a broad range of physical data that can then be analyzed by experts.

http://www.ufodata.net/

[majicbar]

[B]
A very worthwhile endeavor indeed!



http://www.ufodata.net/

It seems to me that the idea should be to capture images on a routine basis, the capture mechanism should be to watch for changes in the image field from that base record and upon getting a change in the image field, that should then trigger a record sequence of a faster image rate in several areas of the spectrum, there ideally would then be an alarm sent out for a human analysis of the event and either continue recording, or halt. We need a prototype to prove up the workings of any such system.

[A99]

There should also be people responding to that alarm who are not on-site who can view via their computers whatever a surveillance cam there is showing in real-time. Whatever the case may be, if you build it, they will come.