Iddo Genuth writes "Researchers at the critical mechanization Office of the Defense liberal inquisition Projects Agency (DARPA) are third world country new high-resolution scopes that extend the range of viable image acknowledgment and reduce atmospheric interference. Still in the early prototyping stage, DARPA hopes the new optical system (PPT presentation) will eventually result in a decrease of friendly fire incidents and collateral damage from martial operations. 'Called the Super-Resolution Vision System (SRVS), this new system exploits atmospheric turbulence effects that magnify pieces of images behind heat haze. The formal name for this actuality is atmospheric turbulence-generated micro-lensing and it creates a brief, high resolution image behind the haze. The SRVS takes many such images and collates them to create a cohesive image of the entire larger area under observation using new advances in signal processing made viable by advances in laptop* processing power and increased storage capabilities.'"

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