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on Feb 24, 2013
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Drone ‘Nightmare Scenario’ Now Has A Name: ARGUS
1.8 Gpixel sensors don't exist, due to physics.
Why don't they exist? ( I imagine it is just a matter of making the chip large enough, to accommodate enough pixels.)
brigade
on Feb 24, 2013
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Well, I guess the sensor could theoretically be made using the entirety of a wafer. But it would be useless since the lens needed for such a large sensor would be more than the size and weight of a large ground telescope.
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