InnoVision: Taking
GEOINT Science and
Technology To The
Next Level
Bert Beaulieu
Director, InnoVision
14 February 2012
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InnoVision’s Mission
Apply diverse and
emerging science and
technology expertise
to enhance and
transform Geospatial
Intelligence.
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InnoVision Research and Development
Basic & Applied
Research Office (IB)
Executes cutting edge scientific
research, providing foundation for
InnoVision’s solutions to NGA’s
most difficult problems
Advanced Development
Office (ID)
Information Integration
Office (II)
Develops innovative ideas to
demonstrate, validate and
transition advanced processing,
exploitation, analysis and
collaboration techniques,
methodologies, tools and
tradecraft in support of the NSG.
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.
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What Drives InnoVision Today
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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
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Delivery of new sensors & capabilities
o New and forthcoming national overhead satellites
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Existing and future commercial airborne and handheld sensors
Responsiveness to stakeholders
o Top-down: Evolving NGA vision
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Stimulated by enduring mission challenges, strategic initiatives, and
resources
Bottom-up: Direct interaction -- agency, customers, and partners
S&T community interaction and opportunities
o Opportunities identified with DARPA, IARPA, IC; DoD and other labs;
international; industry; and academia (CRADAs and grants)
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Key GEOINT S&T Priorities
Emerging Areas of Interest
Geodesy and Geophysics
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Geo-social modeling, patterns of
life, human geography
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Photogrammetry and earth
modeling
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High-performance computing,
algorithms for spatio-temporal
analysis of massive data
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Hydrography
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Sensor analysis and evaluation
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Gravity gradiometry
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Persistent urban surveillance
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Global tracking and geolocation
GEOINT Analytics/Applications
Remote-Sensing Phenomenologies
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Full-Spectrum Exploitation
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Overhead Persistent Infrared
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Computational Analytics
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Radar
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Cognitive Analysis
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Light Detection and Ranging
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Knowledge Discovery
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Spectral
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Motion Imagery
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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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Advancing GEOINT Data Management:
Dynamic Multi-INT Advancement Platform (DMAP)
Data Sources and
Classes
Reporting / Posting
Analysis/Production
Dissemination
Processing (L3+)
Automation
Storage / Data Mgt
Processing (L0-3)
Capture/ Ingest
Collection /Plan / Sch
Needs, Rqt, Tasking
GEOINT
Access / Rapid / Fused
Functional Capabilities/Tools ••
Other
ASP
Airborne
Knowledge Mgt/Capture
Space
Connectivity
Classes
Network A
Network B
Network C
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Panchromatic
Infrared
Radar
Spectral
LIDAR
OPIR
S/G/VMTII
Video (FMV)
WAS
Feature
Foundation
Multi-INT
etc
Beyond Line of
Sight
Common Environment/Infrastructure
Capabilities Hosting Environment
ISP
SIGINT
Processing
Storage
Data
feeds
and
sources
Transport
(Data Management) (Communication)
On-Demand & Tailored Access
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Mobile Device
Personalized Web Browser
Topic Web Tab
Light Client
Medium Client
Heavy Client
• 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
Environment and Framework is Essential to High-Quality User Experience
Open, Commodity, Service- and Standards-Based Approach Reduces Cost and Time
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JPIP: Open Standard Streaming Imagery
To The Desktop and Mobile Environment
Thin-web App
Mobile
GeoEye-1 imagery of
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Applications discover best data;
Algorithms discover best data
Mobile-ready
Network brings only the data
needed
Image courtesy of
Exelis VIS
Pixel
Discovery
Service
Web
Feature
Service
JPEG Interactive
Protocol (JPIP)
streaming imagery
Algorithms
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Bi-directional
features pushed
back
Feature data
Points
Lines
Polygons
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NGA GEOINT Application Store
(GAS Station)
DotMatrix
Multi-INT Spatial Temporal
ToolSuite
Reverse Lookup
Potluck
GeoIQ
NGA Ozone Widget
Framework
OMAR
Generic Area
Limitation Environment
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Putting GEOINT in Users’ Hands
Handheld Operations – 3D (H2O-3D)
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
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Commercial OrbView / GeoEye Imagery, overlay on SRTM1
Mission-Tailored Applications
Camp Placement Tactical Decision Aid (TDA)
LIDAR 3D tool created to
facilitate mission planning
(Below) LIDAR image, Presidential Palace,
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (NGA)
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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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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InnoVision Industry Engagement
• 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
• 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
• Work with small businesses to develop innovative
technological solutions tailored to NGA’s needs.
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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 contribution
and S&T partnership!
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