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A new $10 million US intelligence project seeks to use image-search applications to single out mobile missile launchers revealed by satellite data, and alert human analysts.
At the core of the project is the idea of using machines to identify launcher-shaped objects buried within the staggering amount of digital imagery collected by US spy satellites, manned and unmanned aircraft.
A senior official in the Department of Defense explained that it is this vast amount of data that makes manual research inefficient.
"What was largely a manual process for intelligence analysts has to become an automated one," he said, cited by Defense One.
The ultimate goal is to train computers spot what are called transporter-erector-launchers (TELs). North Korea used these kinds of launchers during missile tests conducted over the last few months.
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