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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

Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

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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;

international; industry; and academia (CRADAs and grants)Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

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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+

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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


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


(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

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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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