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Dare look up? China creates spy tech powerful enough to see faces from space

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Researchers in China have created a camera system capable of defining details of a person’s face from a point high above Earth .

The impressive technology has the potential to transform global surveillance standards.

The device uses a high-tech synthetic aperture lidar (SAL) setup, which deploys laser beams and advanced processing technology to create high-resolution 3D images over long distances.

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formal

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English

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67

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