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InnoVision: Taking GEOINT Science and
Technology To The Next Level
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Bert Beaulieu Director, InnoVision
14 February 2012
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Apply diverse and emerging science and technology expertise to enhance and transform Geospatial Intelligence.
InnoVision’s Mission
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InnoVision Research and Development
Basic & Applied Research Office (IB)
Advanced Development Office (ID)
Information Integration Office (II)
Executes cutting edge scientific research, providing foundation for InnoVision’s solutions to NGA’s most difficult problems
Provides demonstration, prototyping, verification and validation of new GEOINT techniques and IT technologies. Develops data engineering standards, rapid solution development, and a distributed InnoVision lab environment.
Develops innovative ideas to demonstrate, validate and transition advanced processing, exploitation, analysis and collaboration techniques, methodologies, tools and tradecraft in support of the NSG.
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What Drives InnoVision Today• InnoVision S&T Planning and NSG R&D Roadmap
o Bound scientific and phenomenological scope of GEOINT R&D
o Include near-, mid-, and long-term goals and objectives
o Stimulated by enduring mission challenges, strategic initiatives, and resources
• Delivery of new sensors & capabilitieso New and forthcoming national overhead satellites
o Existing and future commercial airborne and handheld sensors
• Responsiveness to stakeholderso Top-down: Evolving NGA vision
o Bottom-up: Direct interaction -- agency, customers, and partners
• S&T community interaction and opportunitieso Opportunities identified with DARPA, IARPA, IC; DoD and other labs;
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Key GEOINT S&T Priorities
Remote-Sensing Phenomenologies• Overhead Persistent Infrared
• Radar
• Light Detection and Ranging
• Spectral
• Motion Imagery
Geodesy and Geophysics• Photogrammetry and earth
modeling
• Hydrography
• Sensor analysis and evaluation
• Gravity gradiometry
GEOINT Analytics/Applications• Full-Spectrum Exploitation
• Computational Analytics
• Cognitive Analysis
• Knowledge Discovery
Emerging Areas of Interest• Geo-social modeling, patterns of
life, human geography
• High-performance computing, algorithms for spatio-temporal analysis of massive data
• Persistent urban surveillance
• Global tracking and geolocation
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InnoVision R&D Trends
• Balance investment in GEOINT phenomenology ‘building blocks’ with technology application via analytics and integration
• Enable developmental framework to help mitigate data volume; facilitate smarter information discovery, access, exploitation, archival
• Move from systems and thick client services to web services and “apps” accessible on desktops and handhelds
• Move from proprietary to standardized GEOINT open solutions & formats
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Data Sources and Classes
UNCLASSIFIED
Data feeds and sources
Beyond Line of Sight
GEOINT
SIGINT
ConnectivityClasses
OtherAirborneSpace
ARCH I VE
PRI NTER
RECEI VE SEG M ENT
LAN
PRO CESSI NGSEG M ENT
H ARD CO PY( L I G H T TABLE)
SO FTCO PYEXPLO I TATI O N
I NTEL & O PERATI O NSANALYSTS
I M AG EO RD ERI NG
PRO D UCTS
CO LLECTI O NTASKI NG
• Mobile Device• Personalized Web Browser• Topic Web Tab• Light Client• Medium Client• Heavy Client
ProcessingStorage
(Data Management)
Transport(Communication)
On-Demand & Tailored Access
Capabilities Hosting Environment
ISP
AS
PFunctional Capabilities/Tools
Common Environment/Infrastructure
Capture/ Ingest
Processing (L0-3)
Storage / D
ata Mgt
Autom
ation
Processing (L3+
)
Access / R
apid / Fused
Dissem
ination
Analysis/P
roduction
Reporting / P
osting
Know
ledge Mgt/C
apture
Needs, R
qt, Tasking
Collection /P
lan / Sch
• Panchromatic• Infrared• Radar• Spectral• LIDAR• OPIR• S/G/VMTII• Video (FMV)• WAS• Feature• Foundation • Multi-INT• etc
Network CNetwork B
Network A
• Data gathering (Automated & Ad hoc) and stylizing/formatting
• Advanced Analytics and Upstream Processing…on demand products/analytics
• Multi-INT geospatial visualization & analysis• Publication of shared views & products• Continuously monitor AOIs
Advancing GEOINT Data Management:Dynamic Multi-INT Advancement Platform (DMAP)
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Environment and Framework is Essential to High-Quality User ExperienceOpen, Commodity, Service- and Standards-Based Approach Reduces Cost and Time 7
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JPIP: Open Standard Streaming Imagery To The Desktop and Mobile Environment
WebFeatureService
Thin-web App
Feature dataPointsLines
Polygons
JPEG Interactive Protocol (JPIP)
streaming imagery
Mobile
PixelDiscoveryService
Algorithms
Applications discover best data;Algorithms discover best data
Mobile-readyNetwork brings only the data
needed
Bi-directionalfeatures pushed
back
GeoEye-1 imagery of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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Image courtesy of Exelis VIS
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NGA Ozone Widget Framework
Reverse Lookup
OMAR
Potluck
DotMatrix
GeoIQGeneric Area
Limitation Environment
NGA GEOINT Application Store(GAS Station)
Multi-INT Spatial Temporal ToolSuite
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Uses commercially
available mobile devices
Photogrammetric framework
providing accurate geopositioning
for forward deployed personnel
Intuitive interface
Improves situational awareness
using 3D visualization
Ability to Immerse the user into the 3D scene
Putting GEOINT in Users’ HandsHandheld Operations – 3D (H2O-3D)
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Commercial OrbView / GeoEye Imagery, overlay on SRTM1Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188
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Mission-Tailored Applications Camp Placement Tactical Decision Aid (TDA)
LIDAR 3D tool created to facilitate mission planning
Showcased by D/NGA at 2011 GEOINT Symposium
Ready-made handheld “app” supports camp emplacement, helicopter landing zones, other operational needs
High-resolution 3D, color product readily identifies vertical structures, terrain
Intent: field on NGA app store for users to tailor, adapt to own mission requirements
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(Below) LIDAR image, Presidential Palace, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (NGA)
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Areas Where Industry Can Help
• Compression, data reduction, processing, and extraction technology
• Phenomenologies and methods to more effectively process, archive, and retrieve large-data
• Promotion of open GEOINT standards and formats
• Development of mobile applications
• Secure wireless technology
• More effective multi-source data correlation and conflation algorithms and methodologies
• Human geography-focused technologies; social networking
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• Access to cutting-edge technologies in the early stages of development where influence can affect usefulness to both commercial markets and the intelligence community.
• Problem Sets: Mobile GEOINT ;Cyber Security; GEOINT Analyst Tools; Content Management ;Cloud Computing; PED Tools; Communications Infrastructure; “Green “ I.T. Power Efficiency; Collaboration Tools; Visualization Tools
• Work with small businesses to develop innovative technological solutions tailored to NGA’s needs.
• Partnering directly with industry to improve existing commercial products to fit NGA/NSG needs and to develop new technologies that benefit both Government and Industry.
• Problem Sets: Deepening Analytics; Online Geoint Services; Geospatial Data Architecture & Management ; Open Information Technology Environment ;Business Processes ;TCPED Tools ;Collaboration Tools; Visualization Tools
www.inqtel.org crada@nga.mil sbir@nga.mil
InnoVision Industry Engagement
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Challenges and Way Ahead
• Defining and influencing the future with increasingly limited resources
• Continuing to balance S&T across near-, mid-, and longer-term investment priorities
• Focusing on recruiting and retaining key skill sets and expertise
• Expanding partnerships across IC, DoD, international partners, industry, and academia to increase networking and shared solutions
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Thanks for your contributionand S&T partnership!
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