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Old October 10th 16, 05:30 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Marotta
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Default Remote thermal detection

One of those optical systems mounted on the glare shield would be great
for collision avoidance assuming a decent user interface, however
there's no current way to look out behind you for overtaking aircraft.

On 10/10/2016 9:27 AM, WB wrote:
Link to a DARPA machine vision system for aviation collision avoidance:

http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-04-05a

Link to a system apparently already on the market for UAV's:

http://www.sara.com/isr/uav_payloads/oca.html


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