Worldwide Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (WISR)
Abstract
The Worldwide Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (WISR) system will provide ISR capability in denied areas. The U.S. military has limited capability to obtain airborne ISR observations of many critical problem areas, and overhead observations are limited by sensor resolution, collection timeline, and platform geometry. However, millions of videos posted worldwide reflect events and areas of interest for national security, and the number is rapidly increasing. WISR will use ground-level video and still images to produce 3-D and 4-D reconstructions of events and use these reconstructions to code descriptions of dynamic content, rather than focusing on the identification and movement of individual objects and humans in the scene. WISR constructs will be suitable for describing and differentiating patterns-of-life to reflect local and societal changes. The program will use this data in support of three missions: intelligence preparation for expeditionary forces entering a new area of operation, reconstruction of significant events worldwide, and battle damage assessment. These techniques will transition to operational commands and the intelligence community.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- 2271b9df0757af1a5ded681ca1b482d7
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