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Hello guys,

Me and some friends are in the process of starting a foundation for UFO research enthusiasts and I am currently gathering data for this initiative. I am investigating different options to put together a UFO surveillance system. Most of the ppl I talked to - they use this OpenCV so I thought to ask here for advice - this seem to be the key to our project.

I found some already done systems but they are either pretty expensive either not doing what we need. We need a software solution that is modular and can grow in time with more features. The rough steps would be something like:

- detect movement on the sky and only save when we have movement. This is to be able to leave a camera filming for days or even weeks and then see short films containing movement - not to need to watch the whole filmed week.
- then we might need get more details on the filmed object - like size direction and speed. For that we need 2 cameras to do some triangulation
- then knowing more about the obj - we should do some identification. We want to exclude planes, meteorites, birds, balloons, etc so we endup only with UFOs.
The good thing here is that to exclude those we need to identify each one. That means we could use the software to select to film them so it could be useful for astronomers, bird lovers and maybe even airports if it will be robust enough.
- independent of the identification module - we need then to have a secondary more powerful camera or even telescope - that locks the moving object in the sky and zoom and track it.
- remote analysis and sharing of the live data and other features...

So we need for the beginning a software that detects movement on the sky - night and day and then it can grow with a lot of other features - so it needs to be done with growth and scalability in mind.

I am a web programmer - PHP so unfortunately I wont attempt to play with this OpenCV myself so I am asking you guys what will be a good approach to have this software done.

Is here anyone interested to help us? Individual or company or where can I find such? We might have some money and once we got a proof of concept - a system that works we will start to build a community - website etc so we might get even more help - thought this is not always happening

Many thanks, Alex

Hello guys,

Me and some friends are in the process of starting a foundation for UFO research enthusiasts and I am currently gathering data for this initiative. I am investigating different options to put together a UFO surveillance system. Most of the ppl I talked to - they use this OpenCV so I thought to ask here for advice - this seem to be the key to our project.

I found some already done systems but they are either pretty expensive either not doing what we need. We need a software solution that is modular and can grow in time with more features. The rough steps would be something like:

- 
 
detect movement on the sky and only save when we have movement. This is to be able to leave a camera filming for days or even weeks and then see short films containing movement - not to need to watch the whole filmed week.
- week.
 
then we might need get more details on the filmed object - like size direction and speed. For that we need 2 cameras to do some triangulation
- triangulation
 
then knowing more about the obj - we should do some identification. We want to exclude planes, meteorites, birds, balloons, etc so we endup only with UFOs.
UFOs. 
 
 
The good thing here is that to exclude those we need to identify each one. That means we could use the software to select to film them so it could be useful for astronomers, bird lovers and maybe even airports if it will be robust enough.
- enough.
 
 
independent of the identification module - we need then to have a secondary more powerful camera or even telescope - that locks the moving object in the sky and zoom and track it.
- it.
 
remote analysis and sharing of the live data and other features...

So we need for the beginning a software that detects movement on the sky - night and day and then it can grow with a lot of other features - so it needs to be done with growth and scalability in mind.

I am a web programmer - PHP so unfortunately I wont attempt to play with this OpenCV myself so I am asking you guys what will be a good approach to have this software done.

Is here anyone interested to help us? Individual or company or where can I find such? We might have some money and once we got a proof of concept - a system that works we will start to build a community - website etc so we might get even more help - thought this is not always happening

Many thanks, Alex

Hello guys,

Me and some friends are in the process of starting a foundation for UFO research enthusiasts and I am currently gathering data for this initiative. I am investigating different options to put together a UFO surveillance system. Most of the ppl I talked to -

• they use this OpenCV so I thought to ask here for advice -
• this seem to be the key to our project.

I found some already done systems but they are either pretty expensive either not doing what we need. We need a software solution that is modular and can grow in time with more features. The rough steps would be something like:

• detect movement on the sky and only save when we have movement. This is to be able to leave a camera filming for days or even weeks and then see short films containing movement - not to need to watch the whole filmed week.
• then we might need get more details on the filmed object - like size direction and speed. For that we need 2 cameras to do some triangulation
• then knowing more about the obj - we should do some identification. We want to exclude planes, meteorites, birds, balloons, etc so we endup only with UFOs.

The good thing here is that to exclude those we need to identify each one. That means we could use the software to select to film them so it could be useful for astronomers, bird lovers and maybe even airports if it will be robust enough.

• independent of the identification module - we need then to have a secondary more powerful camera or even telescope - that locks the moving object in the sky and zoom and track it.
• remote analysis and sharing of the live data and other features...

So we need for the beginning a software that detects movement on the sky - night (night and day and then it can grow with a lot of other features - features) so it needs to be done with growth and scalability in mind.

I am a web programmer - PHP so unfortunately I wont attempt to play with this OpenCV myself so I am asking you guys what will be a good approach to have this software done.

Is here anyone interested to help us? Individual or company or where can I find such? We might have some money and once we got a proof of concept - a (a system that works we will start to build a community - community) website etc so we might get even more help - thought (thought this is not always happeninghappening)

Many thanks, Alex