Collaborative Video Dissemination Service (Air Force)
Abstract
Demonstrate and document a cost-effective, wide-area video exploitation and dissemination capability that improves the analytical value of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) video. Video backhaul systems provide a powerful, but manpower intensive, situational awareness capability to end users at supporting commands. The system as currently configured does not provide the end user with the ability to record, analyze, fuse or otherwise manipulate the video streams, making the ingestion of the UAS intelligence extremely cumbersome. The Collaborative Video Dissemination Service will provide these capabilities. The lead Service is Air Force. The primary outputs and efficiencies to be demonstrated are: (1) transmission of National Geospatial Intelligence Agency compliant and properly formatted UAS telemetry information along with the UAS video that is backhauled for dissemination to deployed units and analysis centers; (2) a significant reduction in the manpower required to view and exploit the video by leveraging and sharing analyst notations from any of the exploitation sites; (3) optimization of satellite bandwidth by opportunistically injecting staged content (video, imagery, intelligence) into the forward broadcast, and (4) allowing the video data streams to be digitally sized to match the deployed users’ communications bandwidth limitations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 362999e8c2217ec8b8f849604550332e