Sniper detection kit

[rafles]

I guess i'm going to buy one of those for COD4

http://irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=314

off the joke i own one scooba is the coolest thing, it cleans very sweet, i just ot have a roomba but was and old one and i jus trow it away, i'm going for a new one.

[GeneralSnake]

Do you think it could take a round from a rifle though?

[Premonition]

I can already detect snipers.... There usually crouched sitting in doorways

[mapes]

East Palo alto and LA both have systems like this already

http://www.shotspotter.com/products/index.html

[rafles]

Do you think it could take a round from a rifle though?

mmm... maybe not but at least you know that you there's an enemy by your path...

[GeneralSnake]

East Palo alto and LA both have systems like this already

http://www.shotspotter.com/products/index.html

Why in Palo Alto? That is so close to where I used to live, and close to where you still live right?

[FieryDragon]

Do you think it could take a round from a rifle though?

mmm... maybe not but at least you know that you there's an enemy by your path...

So basically your saying that it will take the first shot. If only they spent another billion dollars and made it bulletproof.

[rafles]

Do you think it could take a round from a rifle though?

mmm... maybe not but at least you know that you there's an enemy by your path...

So basically your saying that it will take the first shot. If only they spent another billion dollars and made it bulletproof.

ok... i just don't know...
Maybe somebody can ask irobot about it.

[mapes]

East Palo alto and LA both have systems like this already

http://www.shotspotter.com/products/index.html

Why in Palo Alto? That is so close to where I used to live, and close to where you still live right?

The technology originally came from seismic sensor software. One of the guy's that worked for the USGS adapted it for gunshot detection. He used to live near there and approached the city with a trial run at the technology. They found that it worked very well..... East Palo Alto has a large crime problem and it looks like the city decide to buy the system. It works buy having microphones positioned all over the city. When a gun is discharged it makes a very specific noise. They then triangulate where the noise came from. They can even figure out which direction the shooter was facing. Pretty cool stuff.

[GeneralSnake]

East Palo alto and LA both have systems like this already

http://www.shotspotter.com/products/index.html

Why in Palo Alto? That is so close to where I used to live, and close to where you still live right?

The technology originally came from seismic sensor software. One of the guy's that worked for the USGS adapted it for gunshot detection. He used to live near there and approached the city with a trial run at the technology. They found that it worked very well..... East Palo Alto has a large crime problem and it looks like the city decide to buy the system. It works buy having microphones positioned all over the city. When a gun is discharged it makes a very specific noise. They then triangulate where the noise came from. They can even figure out which direction the shooter was facing. Pretty cool stuff.

That is intense. Is it basically the same thing as the similar sounding device they showed on future weapons? Or do you have no idea what I am talking about?

[mapes]

East Palo alto and LA both have systems like this already

http://www.shotspotter.com/products/index.html

Why in Palo Alto? That is so close to where I used to live, and close to where you still live right?

The technology originally came from seismic sensor software. One of the guy's that worked for the USGS adapted it for gunshot detection. He used to live near there and approached the city with a trial run at the technology. They found that it worked very well..... East Palo Alto has a large crime problem and it looks like the city decide to buy the system. It works buy having microphones positioned all over the city. When a gun is discharged it makes a very specific noise. They then triangulate where the noise came from. They can even figure out which direction the shooter was facing. Pretty cool stuff.

That is intense. Is it basically the same thing as the similar sounding device they showed on future weapons? Or do you have no idea what I am talking about?

Yep it's the same thing. After the initial trial run military contractors jumped all over that technology. Yeah this is cool. From the gunshot sensor wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunshot_Location_System

Gunshot systems using seismological techniques

In the early 1990 the areas of East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park, California, were besieged with crime related to drug traffic. During 1992 there were 42 homicides in East Palo Alto, making it the per capita murder capital of the United States. The Menlo Park police department was often called upon to investigate when residents reported gunshots; however there was no way to determine their source from scattered 911 calls. In late 1992 John C. Lahr, a PhD seismologist at the nearby U.S. Geological Survey, approached the Menlo Park police department to ask if they would be interested in applying seismological techniques to locate gun shots. Others had also approached the Menlo Park police department suggesting ways to help the police by means of gunshot location systems. The police chief arranged a meeting with local inventors and entrepreneurs who had expressed an interest in the problem. At that point there were no solutions to tracking gunshots, only a desire to do so. One key attendee was Dr. Robert Showen, an SRI employee and expert in acoustics.

Dr. John Lahr decided to go ahead with his plans to demonstrate the feasibility of locating the gunshots, relying on his background in the earthquake location techniques and monitoring in Alaska. A network consisting of 1 wired and 4 radio-telemetered microphones was established, with his home in eastern Menlo Park becoming the command center. Dr. Lahr modified the software typically used for locating earthquakes and recorded the data at a higher sample rate than is used for regional seismology. After gunshots were heard Dr. Lahr would determine their location while his wife monitored the police radio for independent confirmation of their source. Using this system, Dr. Lahr was able to demonstrate to the police and others that this technique was highly effective, as the system was able to locate gunshots occurring within the array to within a few 10's of meters. Although additional techniques from the seismic world were known that could better automate the system and increase its reliability, those improvements were outside the scope of this feasibility study.

Encouraged by the results of this study, Dr. Showen left SRI in 1993 and started the company ShotSpotter, which is now one of the leaders in gunshot location solutions. ShotSpotter has perfected these concepts into an automated system which can quickly present highly accurate locations.

Heres a link to the USGS report

http://jclahr.com/science/psn/gunsho...221/index.html

and a press release

http://jclahr.com/science/psn/gunsho...eet/index.html

[Mobojo]

Do you think it could take a round from a rifle though?

Better the robot then you.

[Dead_And_Gone]

I saw the future weapons Anti-sniper setup also.

But, if they setup mic's in the part of the city where the worst crime is,
what's to say they don't steal the mic's and the cabling.

[mapes]

I saw the future weapons Anti-sniper setup also.

But, if they setup mic's in the part of the city where the worst crime is,
what's to say they don't steal the mic's and the cabling.

Ask our friends over the pond in the UK just how many security cameras they have and how many of them get stolen.

Basically the mics are small boxes on top of utility poles. I suppose you could steal em. However some of the more advanced systems have cameras that turn on in the event of a discharge that prolly acts as a deterent to theft as well.