An Overview of ARL's Multimodal Signatures Database and Web Interface

Abstract

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Multimodal Signatures Database (MMSDB) is a centralized collection of sensor data of various modalities that are co-located and co-registered. The signatures include ground and air vehicles, personnel, mortar, artillery, small arms gunfire from potential sniper weapons, explosives, and many other high value targets. This data is made available to Department of Defense (DoD) and DoD contractors, Intel Agencies, other government agencies (OGA) and academia for use in developing target detection, tracking, and classification algorithms and systems to protect our Soldiers. A platform independent Web interface disseminates the signatures to researchers and engineers within the scientific community. Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) signature models provide an excellent solution for the sharing of complex multimodal signature data for algorithmic development and database requirements. Many open source tools for viewing and plotting HDF5 signatures are available over the Web. Future development includes extending the Web interface into a portal system for accessing ARL algorithms and signatures and High Performance Computing (HPC) resources.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA475054

Entities

People

  • James Robertson
  • Kelly Bennett
  • Sam Wen

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Graphical User Interface
  • High Performance Computing
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Internet
  • Local Area Networks
  • Military Research
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Web Browsers

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
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