Fusion of information from optical, thermal, multispectral imagery and geologic/topographic products to detect underground detonations (video). Audio-Visual (Final)

Miscellaneous · Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:6914789

The video documents the results of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR-Phase II) project conducted for DARPA focusing on the use of all-source overhead remote sensor imagery for monitoring underground nuclear tests and related activities. The documentation includes: (1) the main unclassified body of the report; (2) a separate ground truth Annex; and (3) a separate classified Annex. Autometric's approach was to investigate the exploitation potential of the various sensors, especially the fusion of products from them in combination with each other and other available collateral data. This approach featured empirical analyses of multisensor/multispectral imagery and collateral data collected before, during, and after an actual underground nuclear test (named 'BEXAR'). Advanced softcopy digital image processing and hardcopy image interpretation techniques were investigated for the research. These included multispectral (Landsat, SPOT), hyperspectral, and subpixel analyses; stereoscopic and monoscopic information extraction; multisensor fusion processes; end-to-end exploitation workstation concept development; and innovative change detection methodologies.

• Research Organization: Autometric, Inc., Alexandria, VA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6914789
• Report Number(s): AD-M-000119/8/XAB; DF/P-2-92/1733; CNN: DAAH01-91-C-R033
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Redstone Arsenal, AL
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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