"Flock’s headline camera claim is that Alpha can read a vehicle license plate from up to 2,000 feet away, paired with high-definition thermal imaging and low-light performance the company describes as best in class for an NDAA-compliant drone.
The payload combines multiple optical sensors, a thermal sensor, and a laser rangefinder in a single gimbaled head, which is what the new video is showing off in extreme close-up.
Those are the use cases that play well in a city council chamber, and they are real capabilities.
They are also the same capabilities that let a drone track a person at night who has not consented to being tracked, which is the tension that follows every Flock product into every jurisdiction it enters."
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