Developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Academy of Sciences, technology can change global surveillance standards by providing a resolution of 100 kilometers away.
According to South China Morning Post, this new optical imaging technology can offer Beijing administration the opportunity to monitor foreign military satellites and defense structures on earth in an unprecedented detail.
100 times more powerful than available spy cameras
The laser imaging system has reached a resolution 100 times higher than existing spy cameras using lenses.
In a test held by the US Lockheed Martin company in 2011, a resolution of 2 centimeters from 1.6 kilometers away.
When the new Chinese camera was tested at a distance of 101.8 kilometers on Lake Qinghai, the other side of the lake was able to show only 1.7 millimeter details.
It can be a new era in satellite imaging
Satellites in orbit in the low Earth usually work at altitudes of 170 kilometers and over, while others can rise up to 800 kilometers.
Scientists, however, said that the test was performed in ideal weather conditions and that bad weather or light cloud cover may affect the accuracy of the camera.
The new spy camera developed by Chinese researchers was published in Chinese Journal of Lasers with a synthetic opening Lidar, the first time we have imaging a millimeter at a distance of 100 kilometers “.
On the other hand, the US -based satellite imaging attempt Albedo Space is working on a technology that can display people on earth by closer.
However, the founders of the company, the system will not have the feature of face recognition, he says. Numerous defense agreements with the US government, the company attracts the reaction of privacy advocates.
