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  • The issues include deficient infrared performance, which would hinder the sensor's ability to capture images at night; inadequate resolution of images to track people on the ground in real time; a 12- to 18-second delay in receiving images on the ground; and "unpredictable" system reliability and lack of system documentation.

    Air Force's new surveillance system for aerial drones not working as hoped Ellen Nakashima 2011

  • They all recommended at least one basement motion sensor plus window alarms (set off if the window is opened) or glass-break alarms (set off if the window is broken) downstairs, though they differed on the sensor's placement.

    Buying a Sense of Security for the Home 2008

  • But CMOS chips initially had trouble delivering live video images due to overheating, the need to come up with a way of resampling images on the fly (converting them from the sensor's maximum capacity to the smaller resolution of HD video) and other problems.

    doggdot.us 2008

  • But CMOS chips initially had trouble delivering live video images due to overheating, the need to come up with a way of resampling images on the fly (converting them from the sensor's maximum capacity to the smaller resolution of HD video) and other problems.

    doggdot.us 2008

  • The area being sampled needs to be of a known size, so the sensor's contribution to the whole can be weighted properly.

    Titusville « Climate Audit 2007

  • ALEX ARDANS, CALIFORNIA ANIMAL HEALTH & FOOD SAFETY LAB: Something that strikes fear or really gets a laboratory sensor's are uptight is to hear of a large number of animals dying.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007 2007

  • The sensor's located right at the base of this orange external fuel tank.

    CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2005 2005

  • Once they arrived, there was a pattern in which they would have to park the vehicles, so as to screen them from the sensor's view.

    State Of War Clancy, Tom 2003

  • A high-pitched whir, audible only to Vulcan ears mentally attuned to it, was the sole evidence of the sensor's activation.

    Web of the Romulans M. S. Murdock 1990

  • As the ship passed over the surface of the new world, crossing the terminator into darkness, the sensor's beeps grew fainter and fainter.

    THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK VONDA N.MCINTYRE 1990

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