Exploitation of information acquired from imaging sensors
today plays a vital role in almost every platform, system, and
System-of-Systems (SoS) application in military and civilian
communities: aviation, transport, training, surface/ground combat,
medical imaging, and engineering design/development. The sensors
include monochromatic and visible color, infrared, radar, laser radar,
millimeter-wave, night vision goggle (NVG), computer-aided tommography,
x-ray, and ultrasound. As sensor size, weight, power, and price has
continually decreased, the number and types of sensors deployed has also
increased significantly. Furthermore, these sensors are more and more
used in combination - either aboard a single platform (ground or air
vehicle) or in a network of platforms connected by datalinks or Internet
protocols - to combine, correlate, or fuse information to achieve
greater overall effect than possible by a single sensor. The collected,
processed, or simulated sensor imagery and image-derived information are
then distributed for display to multiple users over real-time networks
or via Internet protocols.
The DSV SIG and the IMAGE Conference session aims to bring about
technical discussions and papers on problems and solutions associated
with collecting networked sensor data, storing it in source
repositories, distributing it to users via networks and Internet
protocols, extracting information for generation of simulation
databases, modeling sensor image formation, developing real-time sensor
image generation, developing sensor user displays, and
synchronizing/correlating real-time networked sensor displays.
