More Data: The
volume of digital image data is exploding Increasing number of satellites
and airborne sensors with very high spatial, spectral, and temporal
resolutions
Fewer Analysts: House Select Intelligence Committee
Chairman Porter Goss “That there is a persisting shortage of trained
intelligence analysts who must sift through the giant haystack of
information we collect to find the little needles that are really
important”
Higher Stakes: “Bin Laden Alive, Taped Message Asserts
More Al Qaeda Attacks Threatened” Washington Post, 6/24/2002.
We propose to Develop an agent-based system that
autonomously manages a massive but dynamic image data archive and
transforms that to an intelligence archive to aid national security needs.
I2IA is being build to use agents to find “features”
in satellite images and remote sensing data, using
Agent
Technology
Geoconformance
Technology
Image
Analysis Technology
|