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New Commander of AFCENT Innovation Unit Says Commercial Drone Imagery Better than Google Earth

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New Commander of AFCENT Innovation Unit Says Commercial Drone Imagery Better than Google Earth
An Anduril-made Ghost small unmanned aircraft system sits on a display booth at Shaw AFB, S.C. on, Feb 15 at the first 9th Air Force (Air Forces Central) Innovation Day. More than 230 participants attended the event designed to connect the organization with solutions to problem sets in their 21-country area of responsibility, the Air Force said (U.S. Air Force Photo)

U.S. Air Forces Central’s (AFCENT) Task Force 99 (TF 99) unit at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar began short-range drone intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance flight tests this month, and Air Force Col. Robert Smoker, the unit's new commander, said on Feb. 23 that a commercial off-the-shelf, 3D mapping unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has collected data and given AFCENT "really good imagery." "We were able to get better imagery than you get from Google Earth from this off-the-shelf capability," he said…

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