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Another option would be to exchange programming work - if somebody is willing to do this kind of work for this UFO project I could make him a website or features to existing websites. Please contact me here or PM if interested in anyway

That does not sound very encouraging. Anyway - this is why I am here basically - to get a quote and a road-map for this project and a time estimate. I would enormously appreciate somebody to look at it as a project not as a job. Somebody who knows how this should be done should be able to say that

• step 1 - create the basic software that detects movement and saves and is build in a modular way with scalability and modularity in mind for future development will take approximately x amount of time and y money.
• step 2 - add a module to do triangulation and get more details about the target will take x1 time and will cost approximately y1 money.
• step 3...

Ta guys for your replies. The identification algorithm does not have to be very complicated in the beginning. We can live without it. We will have to look at more videos and say - ah it was a bird. If we have a basic movement detection without identification at the beginning that is good enough to call it proof of concept. From what I saw in mrgloom s reply there a re a few approaches to this.

We can easily exclude planes using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillance-broadcast.

About where do I want to deliver this? I want to make this open and as cheaper as possible so ppl all over the world will buy one. I want to give the software free and advice on how to setup the cameras so we can endup with a planetary surveillance system :)

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