PERsistent Stare Exploitation and Analysis System (PerSEAS)
Abstract
The PERsistent Stare Exploitation and Analysis System (PerSEAS) program will develop and demonstrate a tool to automatically and interactively identify activity-based events of interest from persistent, wide area, motion imagery data with support from signals intelligence and other sources. Persistent, wide area surveillance imagery is an ever increasing source of operational data, but exploitation of this data at present is mostly manual and requires hours to days to produce results. Tools are needed to automatically detect potentially significant adversary activities and to discriminate these from nominal background activity. These tools would be supported by libraries of activity patterns, logic to generate hypotheses about which activities are being observed, and mechanisms to quantitatively score the consistency of the data with each activity hypothesis. Such capabilities are necessary to detect and defeat threats in real-time. The major thrust of the program is the hierarchical processing of extracted features (such as context and tracks) to yield events of interest, which in turn would be linked to form activities and then integrated to discover and infer potential threat patterns. The discovery and identification of the potential threat patterns would then produce alerts and cues for analysts to interactively adjudicate and validate. PerSEAS technologies and system are planned for transition to the Distributed Common Ground System and other intelligence applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- fb4d382e61c394d7554780c0571e1195
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