Multi-Sensor Exploitation
Abstract
The Multi-Sensor Exploitation program provides multi-sensor exploitation capabilities enabling missions such as overwatch, border surveillance, high value target tracking, and threat network detection using mixes of imaging, radar, signals, human intelligence, and other sources. Key challenges in the first two missions include real-time and wide area dismount and vehicle target detection, discrimination, tracking, and pattern of life analysis. Key challenges in the third mission include tracking through periods of obscuration and confusion in environments in which existing sensors and methods are not able to provide high quality signature data. Key challenges in the fourth mission include discriminating threats from large volumes of civilian clutter and determining the behavior patterns of and relationships between those threats. The Multi-sensor Exploitation program will develop new target tracking methods for wide area motion imaging sensors enabling long duration tracking of vehicles and dismounts through the development of new target dynamic modeling methods, new processing methods tailored to dismounts, and new methods for signature aided tracking. Scalable stochastic modeling and inference techniques will yield improved situation awareness and assessment for wide-area EO/IR motion imaging, radar, and multi-sensor exploitation applications in settings where large numbers of interacting entities engaged in complex activities are observed over long periods of time. Techniques intended for use in riverine and maritime environments, where extremist and criminal groups threaten political stability, trade routes, and free commerce, must quickly map navigable tributary systems, rapidly detect and identify threats, and monitor their activity. The program will develop new methods for automatically correlating different sources of information to identify threats, estimate threat networks, and analyze behavioral patterns. The program will include a focus on integrated human and machine processing to better take advantage of the strengths of each. Potential transition partners include the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Army as well as USAFRICOM, USSOUTHCOM, USSOCOM and Intelligence agencies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 0b847eade2dfd9c342e7a23fd1863376
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