US Seeks Help to Manage Its Video Cache

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Jim Michaels, ESPN Helps Military Tackle Huge Video Cache; Air Force seeks aid with flood of drone footage. USA Today, Dec 20, 2012 front page).
http://www.usatoday.com/story/ne ... rone-video/1770337/

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"The amount of video streaming into this base, one of a number of sites that monitors and analyzes the images, is immense. Drone video transmissions rose to 327,384 hours last year, up from 4,806 in 2001.

"The importance of video analysis is apparent in the hunt for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It took 6,000 hours of surveillance video to pinpoint the location of the al-Qaeda leader who oversaw a bloody insurrection in Iraq as drones followed the movements of his known associates. On June 7, 2006, two U.S. Air Force jets dropped two 500-pound bombs on the building in which he was located in Iraq.

Note: The print is more concise about quotation 2: "Video analysis was critical in the hunt for al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It took 6,000 hours of surveillance video to pinpoint his location, as drones followed the movements of his associates. On June 7, 2006, two US Air Force jets dropped two 500-pound bombs on the building in which he was located.