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Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: science news, science and technology coverage, science trivia, experts, bohttp://www.sciam.com [Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: science news, science and technology coverage, science trivia, experts, bo] In a mobile office set up near the starting chutes 13 route editors, three speed setters, three managers, a statistician and a strategist waited for the DARPA CD. Within minutes of its arrival, a "preplanning" system that the team had built with help from Science Applications International Corporation, a major defense contractor, began overlaying the race area with imagery drawn from a 1.8-terabyte database containing three-foot-resolution satellite and aerial photographs, digital-elevation models and laser-scanned road profiles gathered during nearly 3,000 miles of reconnaissance driving in the Mojave.

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Sciam.comhttp://www.sciam.com [Sciam.com] Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Innovations from ...: Within minutes of its arrival, a "preplanning" system that the team had built with help from Science Applications International Corporation, a major defense contractor, began overlaying the race area with imagery drawn from a 1.8-terabyte database containing three-foot-resolution satellite and aerial photographs, digital-elevation models and laser-scanned road profiles gathered during nearly 3,000 miles of reconnaissance driving in the Mojave.

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