Perhaps. Of course there will be high tech ways to bypass this. And some of the footage isn’t taken on centrally produced drones, but on random personal smartphones.
But if your watermark well enough, then maybe you can get genuine videos of cardboard tanks blowing up.
Remember, decoys are often used in war. And they have to fool the people on the ground. So you get people thinking “well it’s obviously a decoy tank. I saw a gust of wind blow it about. But we could probably make it look real if we shoot it at the right angle. ”
Uniqueness of video would be easy to do by digital checks. Uniqueness of event is harder. But if you have accurate time and at least a rough idea of location, then seeing 2 tanks blown up in the same second should raise alarm bells. Uniqueness of tank is even harder. A tank can be shot at, duct taped up a bit (by either side) and then shot at again.
To ask the obvious question: how do they verify the videos are genuine, unique, recent, taken by this unit, show what they claim to show?
Since the drones are centrally produced, they could easily implement digital watermarks for provenance
Perhaps. Of course there will be high tech ways to bypass this. And some of the footage isn’t taken on centrally produced drones, but on random personal smartphones.
But if your watermark well enough, then maybe you can get genuine videos of cardboard tanks blowing up.
Remember, decoys are often used in war. And they have to fool the people on the ground. So you get people thinking “well it’s obviously a decoy tank. I saw a gust of wind blow it about. But we could probably make it look real if we shoot it at the right angle. ”
Uniqueness of video would be easy to do by digital checks. Uniqueness of event is harder. But if you have accurate time and at least a rough idea of location, then seeing 2 tanks blown up in the same second should raise alarm bells. Uniqueness of tank is even harder. A tank can be shot at, duct taped up a bit (by either side) and then shot at again.