Ever since the launch of YouTube, the online video sharing service has given an immense boost of power to the world of corporate and home made videos. Anyone and everyone, who owns a camcorder or a mobile phone can now make videos, upload them the website and share them with the world.

Taking lessons from YouTube, the U.S military has now announced, that it has nearly perfected a process of creating a intricate network of video resources from unmanned drones, helicopters and surveillance aircrafts. The newly launched initiative called adLib from EchoStorm provides the soldiers in hotspots such as Iraq and Afghanistan the ability to gain enhanced situational awareness via dedicated video streams.

This program was undertaken by the U.S. military’s Task Force ODIN in conjunction with EchoStorm Worldwide LLC that has designed and developed the adLib system, with which the system categorizes and archives the video streams taken from different resources and create dedicated library for the troops to take advantage from.

According to David Barton (EchoStorm),

“You can ask for video that matches a specific location using latitude and longitude or the MGRS (Military Grid Reference System) or by clicking and dragging on a map. You can even define a specific point and specify a radius to search from that point.”

The adLib system has the capability of archiving videos from all sorts of sources such as drones, helicopters, aircrafts and even from individual soldiers who might be equipped with FLIR Recon III binoculars, that have the feature of capturing videos built into them.

Via Wired.