Tactical geospatial intelligence from full motion video

Author

Madison, Richard ; Xu, Yuetian

Author_Institution

Draper Lab., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

13-15 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The current proliferation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems provides an increasing amount of full-motion video (FMV) that, among other things, encodes geospatial intelligence. But the FMV is rarely converted into useful products, thus the intel potential is wasted. We have developed four concept demonstrations of methods to convert FMV into more immediately useful products, including: more accurate coordinates for objects of interest; timely, geo-registered, orthorectified imagery; conversion of mouse-clicks to object coordinates; and first-person-perspective visualization of graphical control measures. We believe these concepts can convey valuable geospatial intelligence to the tactical user.

Keywords

geographic information systems; military aircraft; military computing; remotely operated vehicles; video signal processing; first-person-perspective visualization; full-motion video; geospatial intelligence encoding; graphical control measures; orthorectified imagery; tactical geospatial intelligence; unmanned aircraft systems; Accuracy; Cameras; Geospatial analysis; Global Positioning System; Streaming media; Telemetry; Transforms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2010 IEEE 39th

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

1550-5219

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8833-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AIPR.2010.5759699

Filename

5759699