An Experimental Digital Interactive Facility,
Abstract
The U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories (USAETL), Fort Belvoir, Virginia, has developed an extensive, interactive digital image processing facility to efficiently conduct research in areas such as military intelligence, digital product generation for weapon systems, and digital mapping. The facility is called the Digital Image Analysis Laboratory (DIAL), and it began to evolve from a general purpose computer-oriented system approximately 4 years ago. It is supported by the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA), the Corp of Engineers, and DARCOM's Army Space Program Office (ASPO). The research effort in digital image processing began in a modern computer environment 6 years ago. As experience was gained, it became apparent that it was impractical to produce digital products in this environment because of the computer's inefficiency relative to existing production equipment using electro-optical technology. A classic example of this in the mapping sciences is seen in the development of stereocompilation equipment during the past 20 years where the computer is never used to perform the basic correlation function.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA056438
Entities
People
- Lawrence A. Gambino
Organizations
- Geospatial Research Laboratory