The world will be watching America''s Cup on YouTube, Fox Sports in Australia and a variety of other channels described here. The fact that the races are in a harbor this time rather than on the open seas will help the TV coverage. So will the visual aids added on the screen by LiveLine as in the video below.
Sportvision describes the technology behind LiveLine:
"Between 1 and 3 helicopters fly overhead with a high-end camera to capture video, along with a super-precise GPS and an inertial navigation system that determines the chopper’s location, altitude, roll, pitch, and yaw. The video and positional data gets transmitted to the command center, where it is used in the live broadcast and to maintain a detailed schematic of every element on the course.
Each vessel has what looks like a rounded horn protruding from its stern. Inside, there’s a microphone, a camera, and a GPS unit that, with the help of inertial measurements, tracks the craft’s location to within 2 centimeters. There are two additional microphones and three more cameras placed around the boat. A microwave antenna on the top of the mast beams the feeds to shore."
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