A Distributed Parallel Processing System for Command and Control Imagery

Abstract

Many modern command and control applications are driven by imagery, and imagery, in general, may originate from diverse geographically distributed sources. A rapid increase in image sizes and processing capabilities has resulted from improved hardware for collection and display. Moreover, techniques for parallel processing are keeping pace with military requirements by harnessing powerful parallel processors to facilitate the analysis of images. In addition, tools for distributed processing are under development that can be used to coordinate the processing effort across a network of parallel processing systems. This paper describes a system that can be used to request image analysis over distributed parallel processing facilities, and integrate the results into command and control systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA467654

Entities

People

  • Dennis Fitzgerald
  • George O. Ramseyer
  • Richard E. Linderman
  • Scott E. Spetka

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • High Performance Computing
  • Host Computers
  • Image Processing
  • Images
  • Information Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Recognition
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Database Systems and Applications

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control