What Problems Are We Trying to Solve? What does Motion Imagery Bring to the Fight!
JV 2010: …Leverage technological opportunities to achieve new levels of effectiveness … using improved intelligence, C2 available in the information age … achieve Dominant Battlespace Awareness
Proposition: Advanced Motion Imagery is / will become a key enabling technology to achieve “Dominant Battlespace Awareness”
What Does Motion Imagery Bring to the Fight?
- Near real-time continuous situational awareness
- Low latency from collection to the user (< 1sec)
- Continuous tracking of dynamic, tactical situations
- Detection of transient tip-off events
- Actionable intelligence
- User’s “eyes” on the battlefield
- Dynamic interactive re-tasking by the user
- Other intelligence products through processing & exploitation of multiple frame sequences
- Precision Geolocation
- Geo-registered mosaics with temporal overlays
- Detection and tracking of moving objects
- Enhanced resolution images
Motion Imagery Contribution
Still Imagery Contribution