Fiscal Year	2014
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Physics
Investigator(s)	Olsen, Richard C.
Sponsor	Defense Intelligence Agency (DoD)
Summary	Analysis of satellite imagery is making a transition from an historic 2-Dimensional raster paradigm to a 3-Dimensional model that includes topographic structure. The evolution of photogrammetric technology, and computing, now allows for the integration of many images, and the development of 3-dimensional point clouds while registering the images together. The resulting point clouds are comparable in many ways to those that are obtained from LiDAR scanners. The analysis of 3D point clouds moves the intelligence problem from the literal world of imagery analysis into the non-literal world of Measurements and Signature Analysis (MASINT). It should enable greater facility for object identification and change detection in environments that are changing on both short and long time scales (seconds to years).
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