Patent ID: 7747364

Claim:
A system for unmanned vehicle operation, comprising A. a control station, B. a craft disposed remotely from the control station, C. an image acquisition device coupled to the craft and arranged for generating one or more images of one or more scenes in a vicinity of the craft, D. a first digital data processor coupled to the image acquisition device, the first digital processor identifying anomalies in one or more scenes in one or more images generated by the image acquisition device, E. a second digital data processor disposed at the control station in communications coupling with the first digital data processor, the second digital data processor responding to signaling from the first digital data processor indicative of an anomaly by generating an image representative of a scene in which the anomaly was detected, and F. wherein the first digital data processor is coupled with the second digital data processor by way of any of a low-bandwidth and/or small-antenna satellite link.