Geospatial Exploitation (GEO)
Abstract
The Geospatial Exploitation (GEO) thrust explored a new set of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) products, continuously updated and maintained in a form that ensures their consistency across both product elements (digital elevation models, traditional maps, 3-D structure models, census summaries, and directories) and spatial nodes (coarse resolution country data for economic analysis to fine resolution building data for platoon-level combat operations). GEO algorithm architectures were explored to achieve scalability through spatial, temporal and ontological partitioning. GEO technologies are planned for transition to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Activities funded within the GEO research space include: The Urban Reasoning and Geospatial Exploitation Technology (URGENT) program developed a 3-D urban object recognition and exploitation system that enabled advanced mission planning and situation analysis capabilities for the warfighter operating in urban environments. URGENT created techniques for the rapid exploitation of EO and LIDAR sensor data at the city scale to recognize urban objects down to the soldier scale. The Geospatial Representation Integrated Dataspace (GRID) program investigated an automated geospatial data fusion, modeling, and dissemination technology for the tactical warfighter. Geospatial registration algorithms have demonstrated success in automatically fusing geospatial data from multiple Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) sources (e.g., electro-optical, full motion video, hyperspectral, and LIDAR) and encoding the fused data as a temporally indexed volumetric model that can potentially reduce geospatial theater ISR sensor data storage requirements while enhancing image quality for exploitation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 5efc3b05acfdf4ec6b1691c9dbb7fde2