u.s. \"red dot\" spy program hunts bombs in war zones
WASHINGTON (Reuters)-The U. S.
The agency that operates spy satellites is helping the military find homemade bombs before killing American troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The \"red dot\", which started six months ago, plans to place a red dot on the display of a Hummer vehicle or command post to alert military personnel to the location of the improvised explosive device (IEDs)
Responsible to many countries in the United StatesS.
Fighting casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan
Bruce Carlson, director of the National Reconnaissance Agency, said on Thursday that the National Reconnaissance Agency helped detect bombs with satellites that hone the electronic signals of detonators, which are combined with images.
\"It\'s hard to take pictures somewhere and fuse it with the millions of different signal intelligence you might have,\" Carlson told a Defense Writers Group . \".
\"It\'s a difficult process to sort it all out and then position it quickly,\" he said . \".
\"But in many cases we are able to do this in a few minutes or less.
\"Most improvised explosive devices are detonated electronically because they use shaped charges to improve accuracy,\" said Carlson.
Design, build and operate NRO in the United States. S.
Intelligence satellites, in cooperation with the Air Force, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies, locate satellites and add data from drones and aircraft.
According to Pentagon statistics, as of June, improvised explosive devices had killed 2,205 people and injured 21,693 in the Iraq war.
As of June, improvised explosive devices had killed 719 people and injured 7,448 Americans in Afghanistan.
\"Although we still cannot accept the loss of improvised explosive devices, we have caught a lot before they were detonated.
Despite false positives, Carlson believes that the project\'s ability to locate improvised explosive devices is about 80% effective.
\"We got a lot of false positives, but we didn\'t report a lot of false positives,\" he said . \".
\"We try to make sure there is a balance between being conservative and getting people crazy.
\"If you put a red dot every mile, you can\'t do anything,\" says Carlson . \".
The other devices used by NRO to help locate insurgents are push-to-
The talk radio, essentially a transmitter and receiver, is widely used in war zones and is \"very difficult to locate \".
\"But over the past three years, science has improved exponentially,\" says Carlson.
\"Three or four years ago, if you asked us to geolocation,to-
\"We may find you within 3 miles,\" he said . \". “Now . . .
We measure it with rice, which means it is aimed.
The agency that operates spy satellites is helping the military find homemade bombs before killing American troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The \"red dot\", which started six months ago, plans to place a red dot on the display of a Hummer vehicle or command post to alert military personnel to the location of the improvised explosive device (IEDs)
Responsible to many countries in the United StatesS.
Fighting casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan
Bruce Carlson, director of the National Reconnaissance Agency, said on Thursday that the National Reconnaissance Agency helped detect bombs with satellites that hone the electronic signals of detonators, which are combined with images.
\"It\'s hard to take pictures somewhere and fuse it with the millions of different signal intelligence you might have,\" Carlson told a Defense Writers Group . \".
\"It\'s a difficult process to sort it all out and then position it quickly,\" he said . \".
\"But in many cases we are able to do this in a few minutes or less.
\"Most improvised explosive devices are detonated electronically because they use shaped charges to improve accuracy,\" said Carlson.
Design, build and operate NRO in the United States. S.
Intelligence satellites, in cooperation with the Air Force, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies, locate satellites and add data from drones and aircraft.
According to Pentagon statistics, as of June, improvised explosive devices had killed 2,205 people and injured 21,693 in the Iraq war.
As of June, improvised explosive devices had killed 719 people and injured 7,448 Americans in Afghanistan.
\"Although we still cannot accept the loss of improvised explosive devices, we have caught a lot before they were detonated.
Despite false positives, Carlson believes that the project\'s ability to locate improvised explosive devices is about 80% effective.
\"We got a lot of false positives, but we didn\'t report a lot of false positives,\" he said . \".
\"We try to make sure there is a balance between being conservative and getting people crazy.
\"If you put a red dot every mile, you can\'t do anything,\" says Carlson . \".
The other devices used by NRO to help locate insurgents are push-to-
The talk radio, essentially a transmitter and receiver, is widely used in war zones and is \"very difficult to locate \".
\"But over the past three years, science has improved exponentially,\" says Carlson.
\"Three or four years ago, if you asked us to geolocation,to-
\"We may find you within 3 miles,\" he said . \". “Now . . .
We measure it with rice, which means it is aimed.
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