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Geo Data WAMI
Spinning Idea edited this page Jul 29, 2026
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Wide-Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) is an airborne persistent surveillance technology that captures continuous video over city-sized areas (kilometers in diameter). Unlike standard drone cameras, WAMI tracks every moving vehicle and person in its entire field of view, archiving the data for real-time and forensic "time machine"
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-area_motion_imagery
- https://transparentsky.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWbBsfwtCIo - Bilawal Sidhu video on aerial surveillance
Below are some historical government programs that worked on or used WAMI technology:
- ARGUS-IS - DARPA + BAE Systems - 2007–2010, public demo around 2013, operationally transitioned around 2014.
- Gorgon Stare Increment 2 - US Air Force + Sierra Nevada Corporation, using ARGUS-derived tech - 2011–2014.
- AWARE / AWARE-2 - DARPA + Duke University consortium - roughly 2009–2013.
- MOIRE - DARPA + Ball Aerospace - roughly 2010–2013, space-based real-time imaging concept.
- Persistics - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - around 2011, video compression / tracking / exploitation pipeline.
- Persistent Surveillance Systems / HawkEye - PSS, Ross McNutt - 2006–2021+, city-wide airborne surveillance used in places like Baltimore.