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THIS PROJECT WILL DEMONSTRATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A NEW APPROACH TO THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY IN IMAGE UNDERSTANDING (IU). IT IS BASED UPON THE USE OF A SHARED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR IU, CALLED THE KBVISION (TM) SYSTEM, WHICH CAN SERVE TO EASE THE TRANSFER OF COMPUTER VISION ALGORITHMS. THE PHASE I PROPOSAL WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF THE TRANSFER OF IU SOFTWARE BY SHARING ...

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THIS RESEARCH PROPOSAL IS AIMED AT PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION AND FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT OF SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING THE SIGNAL-TO-CLUTTER RATIO IN FOLIAGE PENETRATION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) DATA, BASED ON ADAPTIVE CROSS-MODELING OF THE COMPETING CLUTTER THROUGH THE USE OF MULTIPLE RADAR FREQUENCIES. THE ADAPTIVE CROSS-MODELING APPROACH SEEKS TO ESTIMATE THE CLUTTER RETURN ...

THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS TO ESTABLISH THE FEASIBILITY OF APPLYING NEWLY DEVELOPED MORPHOLOGY-BASED DETECTION ALGORITHMS TO THE POWERLINE DETECTION PROBLEM IN SAR AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY AND TO DESIGN AN OVERALL PROGRAM TO INTEGRATE THIS TECHNOLOGY INTO A COMPLETE MAP VALIDATION AND UPDATING SYSTEM. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS OUR APPROACH IS TWOFOLD. FIRST, DETECTION PERFORMANCE CAN BE DRAMATICALLY IMPROV ...

THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A NOVEL METHOD FOR TARGETING NOISY, HIGH-VALUE TARGETS SUCH AS ENEMY ARTILLERY, HELICOPTERS AND, PERHAPS, HEAVY VEHICLES AND GENERATORS. THE CONCEPT MAKES USE OF RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE ACOUSTIC SENSORS WHICH CAN BE DEPLOYED IN ENEMY TERRITORY BY AIR DROP OR BY ARTILLERY. THE SYSTEM LOCATES TARGETS BY CORRELATING THE ACOUSTIC SIGNALS RECEIVED BY SEVERAL PAIRS OF SENSORS TO D ...

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THE PROPOSED EFFORT WILL INVESTIGATE THE UTILITY OF MULTISENSOR IMAGERY PRODUCTS TO SATISFY REQUIREMENTS FOR DETECTION AND MONITORING OF UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS, SUCH AS THOSE PRODUCED AT NUCLEAR TEST SITES. THE RESEARCH WILL INVOLVE AN ANALYSIS OF EXISTING RADAR, THERMAL, MULTISPECTRAL, AND TOPOGRAPHIC PRODUCTS OBTAINED OVER A U.S. TEST SITE. HARDCOPY AND SOFTCOPY ANALYSES WILL YIELD INFORMATION A ...