UAV ‘eye in the sky’ protects Jerusalem light rail

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Maybe we need somehing here since on one of the Al Qaeda's websites, they incite Muslims to bomb places like the U.S. open. We should have had something like this at the Boston Marathon.

UAV ‘eye in the sky’ protects Jerusalem light rail

Rioters beware: You are being watched from up above by unmanned aerial vehicles, says Mayor Nir Barkat

BY DAVID SHAMAH July 17, 2014

After riots in two Arab neighborhoods spilled onto the tracks of the city’s light rail system, Jerusalem’s mayor thought long and hard about how to prevent future incidents of danger to life and property. Then the answer came to him — from the sky.

“We in the city had made use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for various purposes recently, and we thought this would be an excellent opportunity to make use of the technology,” Mayor Nir Barkat told The Times of Israel. “With UAVs, you get great high-resolution images taken from a birds-eye perspective, giving you the flexibility to zero in on any potential trouble spots in a way that ground level cameras cannot accomplish.”

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UAV 'eye in the sky' protects Jerusalem light rail | The Times of Israel
 
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