Design and Development of the Terrain Information Extraction System

Abstract

A program has been initiated for the design and development of a Terrain Information Extraction System (TIES). This is a test-bed system which will integrate many diverse capabilities drawn from the fields of photogrammetry, remote sensing, automated cartography and geographic information systems; all within a distributed, digital environment. TIES will be an extensible, modular system which will be used to develop more responsive and reliable technique to generate digital terrain databases. The system will provide a 'beginning-to-end' mapping and exploitation capability utilizing a number of digital and digitized image source materials to collect data needed for various military and civilian activities, including wetlands delineation and water resources management. TIES is being developed on commercial off-the-shelf hardware, and will incorporate both proprietary and public domain software. Major components of the system include an image scanner, a digital stereo photogrammetric workstation and geographic information system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 04, 1990
Accession Number
ADA231166

Entities

People

  • Daniel L. Edwards
  • Gregory B. Desmond

Organizations

  • Geospatial Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Availability
  • Cartography
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Digital Data
  • Digital Images
  • Digital Maps
  • Feature Extraction
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Image Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Liquid Crystal Displays
  • Measurement
  • Software Development
  • Standards

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML