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Exploiting Raster Maps for Imagery Analysis

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Air Force 		Award ID:
77895 		Program Year/Program:
2006 / STTR
Agency Tracking Number:
F064-004-0143 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
International Association of Virtual Org
DBA, IAVO Research and Scientific 345 West Main St., Ste. 201 Durham, NC -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2006
Title: Exploiting Raster Maps for Imagery Analysis
Agency / Branch: DOD / USAF
Contract: FA9550-06-C-0075
Award Amount: $99,944.00
 

Abstract:

The US Air Force seeks innovative technologies to exploit available map data to provide a contextual backdrop for imagery. This contextual backdrop will allow the imagery analyst to more rapidly and accurately exploit the data for further processing. Maps provide a wealth of information, such as road delineations, road names, buildings, and other cultural features which comprise the contextual backdrop for an image. In short, the desired capability should allow the analyst to rapidly "know where they are" in an image and increase their daily throughput of images without sacrificing accuracy. Accordingly, we propose to develop ContextMAX which adheres closely to the stated requirements and leverages our 20+ years of successful imagery processing development and operational transitioning. ContextMAX will incorporate novel robot-mapping techniques for performing automated map analysis, advanced tie-point extraction from imagery, and multi-source registration to create a correlated scene providing the necessary contextual backdrop to imagery analyst for a given image. By this, ContextMAX represents an innovative, low-risk solution for improved contextual awareness to the imagery analyst as well as producing modular geospatial data management and extraction techniques useful to a number of remote sensing and GIS applications.

Principal Investigator:

Eric Lester
VP
9194332412
elester@iavo-rs.com

Business Contact:

Matthew Heric
CEO
9194332402
mheric@iavo-rs.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF VIRTUAL ORG., INC.
DBA, IAVO Research and Scientific, 1010 Gloria Ave Durham, NC 27701

EIN/Tax ID: 541864643
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
Research Institution Information:
U. OF UTAH, SCHOOL OF COMPUTING
50 S. Central Campus Dr.
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Contact: Tom Henderson
Contact Phone: (801) 581-3601
RI Type: Nonprofit college or university