Post on 25-Jun-2020
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SITUATIONALAWARENESS INA DYNAMICENVIRONMENTConditions on the ground
can change in an instant, and national security depends on up-to-the
minute situational awareness. As military and intelligence agencies
intensify efforts against terrorism and asymmetrical warfare, new
technologies for detecting, tracking, and targeting threats to populations
and critical infrastructure play an important role. To advance these
efforts, agencies are discovering the benefits of incorporating video
data sources, such as those from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS),
into existing analytical models.
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have provided
critical real-time surveillance and operational
support to military organizations, and are a key
source of intelligence, particularly when integrated
with other geospatial data. In fact, UAV now
produce so much intelligence data that analysts
are challenged to keep up. Intergraph®’s motion
video exploitation technology, part of our
comprehensive Geospatial Intelligence
Exploitation Solution (GIES), helps meet this
challenge, leveraging motion video resources
and giving analysts the unprecedented ability to
collect, extract, and maximize video assets
that focus on specific areas of interest. This
breakthrough technology enables change
detection, image enhancement, and integration
with multiple geo-referenced sources to yield
current, actionable intelligence in a highly
dynamic intelligence landscape.
Confident ACtion BAsed on CleAr intelligenCeFor more than 40 years, Intergraph has been a
trusted partner of defense and intelligence
agencies around the globe. Continuing this
tradition, our motion video exploitation
capabilities promote a higher degree of
confidence in strategic and tactical decisions.
With our software, commanders can take decisive
action based on a complete understanding of a
video’s geospatial context. We give you an
up-to-the-minute view of the operational situation
on the ground through near-real-time data
streaming, with automatic data ingest capabilities
that collect geospatial information and video
metadata to quickly pinpoint relevant changes.
Leveraging Intergraph’s long-standing expertise in
integration, our solution fuses and displays video
data with satellite imagery and geo-intelligence.
We provide an end-to-end workflow – not a
patchwork of disjointed applications – to enable
quick and orderly data collection, extraction,
fusion, and analysis in the most complex and
rapidly evolving situations.
superior MAnAgeMent of geospAtiAl ContentA critical factor in video analysis is the ability to
easily query through vast archives of imagery
for specific clips. Our solution stores all tracking
information associated with the video, including
aircraft trackline, camera angle, video trackline,
and video path polygon, that you can use to
easily locate the exact video you need for
pattern analysis or change detection. Intergraph’s
enterprise content management tools handle
the broad range of video formats, along with
other complex files such as satellite imagery and
elevation models. Our solution even handles
multiple video feeds simultaneously, which lets
you leverage video from drones that support that
capability, and fuse the imagery with other
intelligence data. The result is a scenario in which
you can quickly zoom to a part of the world –
possibly even down to a street corner – and
instantly queue up segments from collected video
from the last 10 days that pertains to that location.
You can then fuse those results with satellite
images and signals intelligence, and effectively
plan your action, such as routing a convoy.
Instant and Accurate Real-Time EnhancementsIn some cases, even with superior content
management and powerful data integration and
visualization tools, poor-quality video can hamper
your analysis. For example, the original captured
video may be of poor quality – or even unusable –
due to flight path, altitude, buffeting of aircraft, and
other factors. To mitigate this problem, Intergraph’s
technology works in a modular fashion to perform
real-time enhancements and corrections on the
video, such as removing atmospheric distortion,
correcting for shadows that affect brightness and
contrast, and stabilizing jittery video. We give
you state-of-the-art technology to perform these
enhancements, increasing the usefulness of UAV
video in a real-time and forensic capacity. By
allowing you to set thresholds, tolerances, and
other parameters, and perform tasks in batch
mode or interactively, our solution helps you handle
the ever-increasing volume of video that must be
processed for analysis.
Creating, Storing, and Retrieving AnnotationsKnowing when an event occurred is often as
important as knowing where it occurred. Therefore,
the ability to place annotations and clipmarks
within a video stream and save them is essential
to intelligence analysis. Using our solution,
annotations are searchable by both geospatial and
temporal location, which is key to strategic and
tactical planning. For example, annotations can
help you detect temporal patterns associated with
specific events. The ability to access this
information on an enterprisewide basis can be
critical to the mission.
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Cots teChnology, industry stAndArdsBy helping defense and intelligence agencies fuse
and exploit vast amounts of multi-source data,
Intergraph’s fully integrated commercial off-the-
shelf (COTS) solutions deliver unprecedented
efficiency. Based on open industry standards,
our COTS software promotes multi-agency
interoperability and fusion of data from numerous
disparate sources. We empower you to improve
your analysis of motion imagery integrated with
other geospatial intelligence, as well as manage
and disseminate video data collections.
our Motion Video exploitAtion AppliCAtionsOur applications can be bundled to create an
end-to-end motion video exploitation solution, or
purchased separately to support individual tasks
and operational requirements.
Geospatial Content ManagementIntergraph’s Geospatial Content Management
facilitates ingest and management of video
formats with accompanying KLV metadata.
This application supports agencies that provide
geospatial analysis and other services that require
the collection, storage, and retrieval of video and
video products for historical situational awareness
and understanding.
Video ExploitationIntergraph’s Video Exploitation is an Adobe-
based viewer for use on rugged laptops, providing
a complete end-to-end solution for the creation,
management, and distribution of video products.
This application supports the military, coalition
forces, and agencies that need to exploit video
products in support of the decision-making
process in theater.
Motion Video Analysis ProfessionalIntergraph’s Motion Video Analysis Professional
provides a seamless Multi-INT exploitation
environment for the analysis of all types of
geospatial intelligence at central command:
raster maps, vector data, motion video, satellite
imagery, and signal intelligence. It is well-suited
for agencies that conduct advanced analysis
on all sources of intelligence data by allowing
them to integrate/fuse motion video with them to
generate a complete operational picture.
A solution for end-to-end WorkfloWsYou can easily apply Intergraph’s motion video
exploitation solution to a wide range of situations
in which video resources are needed to achieve
a complete intelligence picture. You can combine
applications to create a customized, end-to end-
solution or use them separately to support your
individual needs. Whether you are in theater and
need to process video quickly on a rugged laptop,
or a support agency that fuses full motion video
with other types of intelligence, Intergraph can
support your requirements.
Here is a sample workflow that addresses
end-to- end management of video intelligence,
including collecting, extracting, analyzing, and
maximizing full motion video.
Video IngestThe motion video exploitation software captures
multiple video feeds from unmanned aircraft
systems or other local ground sources. Depending
on the analyst’s location and requirements, you
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can import the video into the Video Exploitation
application to exploit and distribute video products,
or into Motion Video Analysis Professional for
real-time analysis and exploitation.
If you want to store the video for later analysis,
you can import it into the Geospatial Content
Management application for later retrieval. When
you need video for trend awareness, analysis,
and change detection, the Motion Video
connection interface will allow you to geospatially
query in multiple ways: by a geographic minimum
bounding rectangle in which you key in or draw in
the map window, from a center point and radius
in which you can also key in or draw in the map
window, or by entering a Military Grid Reference
System (MGRS) location. Additionally, you can
specify a temporal filter to find video from a
certain day and time. Other attributes, such as
camera angle, clipmarks or annotations, can help
you locate only the videos that apply to a specific
area of interest.
Video Enhancement and StabilizationOften, once you receive video, you need to
stabilize and enhance it before analysis is
possible. Our solution includes patented
enhancement and stabilization algorithms proven
effective over many years in the public safety
market. The application allows analysts to remove
shaky motion and atmospheric distortion, as well
as enhance poor-quality motion imagery with
tools such as brightening, frame averaging, color
tracking, and field-to-frame conversion. You can
then save the output as a video file.
Clipmarking and AnnotationOnce the video is ready for analysis, the ability to
place clipmarks to identify items or events of interest
is vital. The software provides user-definable
clipmarks and associated hot keys. The use of
hot keys eliminates the need for mouse clicks and
enables quick reaction to items of interest. You
can also create a custom clipmark name and
associated text.
Clipmarks, as well as annotations, are
geographically located along the video centerline,
which makes them searchable by geographic
location and time. You can send clipped and
annotated video for further analysis. You can also
treat the clipmarks and annotations as permanent
intelligence data and store it in our Geospatial
Content Management application for enterprisewide
access and historical research.
Fusing Video with Other Intelligence SourcesIf your agency conducts advanced analysis,
Motion Video Analysis Professional gives you the
ability to fuse video with other types of geospatial
data, including raster maps, vector data, and
satellite imagery. With the unique ability to
display motion video, both as raw frames in a
unique window and as geo-referenced frames
fused with other data in a map window, you
can gain an understanding of the video’s
geospatial context.
Using Intergraph’s premier soft copy search
product, Image Scout®, you can incorporate
intelligence from other applications and agencies,
such as human and signal intelligence, to develop
maps, presentations, and customer reports.
Archiving and Managing VideoOnce you have stabilized, enhanced, geo-fused,
analyzed, clipped, and annotated the video,
you can catalog and store the files, footprints,
frame-centerlines, sensor-centerlines, and/or
frame-centroids and associated data. Storage
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includes annotations, clipmarks, and frame-
specific telemetry. Video files and attributes are
warehoused in Intergraph’s Geospatial Content
Management application with other geospatial
data, so you can easily query the video for
further analysis.
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AbOUT INTERGRAPHIntergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and
geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex
data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely
on Intergraph’s industry-specific software to organize vast amounts
of data to make processes and infrastructure better, safer, and
smarter. The company’s software and services empower customers
to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create
intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of
people around the world.
Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power &
Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I).
Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the
design, construction, operation, and data management of plants,
ships, and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially
powered solutions to the public safety and security, defense and
intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and
utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government
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and classified business.
Intergraph is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB, (Nordic
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information, visit www.intergraph.com and www.hexagon.se.
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