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August 2004

Sea Fox Scouts Enemy Shoreline

edited by Robert H. Williams

The Navy’s remote controlled, 16-foot Sea Fox boats are being equipped with a pair of wireless color television cameras and computer-driven network video equipment that will allow operators to receive sharp streaming video on computers up to a mile away.

Jeff Dodge, president of netSCOPE INC., Charleston, S.C., said software enabling the video system was written three days before the Office of Naval Research unveiled the system at this year’s Fleetweek in New York City.

The high-resolution cameras are produced by Toshiba Security & Network Videa, Irvine, Calif. The new, long endurance boats will be used to scout out harbors, marina and shorelines ahead of soldiers or Marines.

A Toshiba official said the cameras would be mounted forward and aft to provide a span of 115 degrees, suggesting that an “operator can view them individually or side by side” on a notebook.

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