InnoVision : Taking GEOINT Science and Technology To The Next Level

1. InnoVision: Taking GEOINT Science and Technology To The Next Level • Bert Beaulieu • Director, InnoVision • 14 February 2012 1 Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

2. InnoVision’s Mission Apply diverse and emerging science and technology expertise to enhance and transform Geospatial Intelligence. Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

3. InnoVision Research and Development Information Integration Office (II) Advanced Development Office (ID) Basic & Applied Research Office (IB) Executes cutting edge scientific research, providing foundation for InnoVision’s solutions to NGA’s most difficult problems 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. Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

4. InnoVision S&T Planning and NSG R&D Roadmap Bound scientific and phenomenological scope of GEOINT R&D Include near-, mid-, and long-term goals and objectives Stimulated by enduring mission challenges, strategic initiatives, and resources Delivery of new sensors & capabilities New and forthcoming national overhead satellites Existing and future commercial airborne and handheld sensors Responsiveness to stakeholders Top-down: Evolving NGA vision Bottom-up: Direct interaction -- agency, customers, and partners S&T community interaction and opportunities Opportunities identified with DARPA, IARPA, IC; DoD and other labs; international; industry; and academia (CRADAs and grants) What Drives InnoVision Today Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

5. Key GEOINT S&T Priorities • 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 • 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 • Remote-Sensing Phenomenologies • Overhead Persistent Infrared • Radar • Light Detection and Ranging • Spectral • Motion Imagery Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

6. 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 Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

7. Advancing GEOINT Data Management:Dynamic Multi-INT Advancement Platform (DMAP) Connectivity Classes Network A Network B Network C Data Sources and Classes Functional Capabilities/Tools • Panchromatic • Infrared • Radar • Spectral • LIDAR • OPIR • S/G/VMTII • Video (FMV) • WAS • Feature • Foundation • Multi-INT • etc Beyond Line of Sight Space Airborne Other Needs, Rqt, Tasking Collection /Plan / Sch Capture/ Ingest Processing (L0-3) Storage / Data Mgt Automation Processing (L3+) Access / Rapid / Fused Dissemination Analysis/Production Reporting / Posting Knowledge Mgt/Capture GEOINT Data feeds and sources ASP Common Environment/Infrastructure SIGINT Capabilities Hosting Environment Transport (Communication) Processing Storage (Data Management) ISP On-Demand & Tailored Access • 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 • Mobile Device • Personalized Web Browser • Topic Web Tab • Light Client • Medium Client • Heavy Client Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188 Environment and Framework is Essential to High-Quality User Experience Open, Commodity, Service- and Standards-Based Approach Reduces Cost and Time UNCLASSIFIED 7 7

8. JPIP: Open Standard Streaming Imagery To The Desktop and Mobile Environment Mobile Thin-web App Applications discover best data; Algorithms discover best data Mobile-ready Network brings only the data needed GeoEye-1 imagery of Port-au-Prince, Haiti Image courtesy of Exelis VIS Bi-directional features pushed back Pixel Discovery Service Web Feature Service JPEG Interactive Protocol (JPIP) streaming imagery Feature data Points Lines Polygons Algorithms Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

9. NGA GEOINT Application Store (GAS Station) DotMatrix Reverse Lookup Multi-INT Spatial Temporal ToolSuite Potluck GeoIQ NGA Ozone Widget Framework Generic Area Limitation Environment OMAR 9 Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

10. Putting GEOINT in Users’ HandsHandheld 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 Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188 Commercial OrbView / GeoEye Imagery, overlay on SRTM1

11. 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) Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

12. 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 Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

13. 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 industryto 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. www.inqtel.orgcrada@nga.milsbir@nga.mil 13 Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

14. 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 Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188

15. Thanks for your contribution and S&T partnership! Approved for Public Release – NGA Case # 12-188