Agile Architecture to Enable Real-Time Tactical Access to Persistent Imagery Surveillance Collection

摘要

This paper presents the constructs for a transformational paradigm within a standards-based architectural framework, which enables extremely quick and accurate visualization of large imagery sets directly from airborne intelligence and surveillance collection assets. The architecture we present handles the dissemination and "on-demand" visualization of JPEG2000 encoded geospatial imagery while providing dramatic improvements in reconnaissance and surveillance operations where low-latency access and time-critical visualization of targets are of substantial importance. This innovative framework, known as the "advanced wavelet architecture" (AWA), has been developed using open standards and nonproprietary formats, within the Commercial and Government Systems Division of Eastman Kodak Company. Numerous software and hardware applications have been developed as a result of the AWA research and development activities.