It can't see through clouds.
It is less effective at altitudes below 8000ft.
So police helicopters will be needed to fill in the gaps.
In any event police helicopters offer the high resolution and frame rate needed for live command and control.
Yes it is feasible for a wide area equiped fixed wing to be also equipped with a narrow view 30fps stabilised video camera and down link.
But since it is flying at 8000ft rather than 1000ft the target image will always be if a lower resolution for a given lens and made slightly worse by increase in atmospheric pollution due to increase distance between subject and lens.
Mickjoebill
Last edited by mickjoebill; 25th Aug 2016 at 03:04.