Tag Archives: image processing

Building your remote sensing curriculum and labs

Posted on May 28, 2013 by brianfarrexelisvis

My blog posts this year have focused a lot on the growth that I’m seeing in remote sensing programs at colleges and universities.  Programs that have focused on image processing are adding new data types such as LiDAR and SAR.  … Continue reading →

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Enabling Soldiers with Geospatial Applications

Posted on April 11, 2013 by collinsexelisvis

Image analysis in its current state is mostly performed at the desktop level. In this type of model Geospatial Intelligence (or GEOINT) needs are passed to a set of GIS analysts who retrieve the relevant data, perform the requested analysis, … Continue reading →

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Mark’s Technology Plan for 2013

Posted on December 11, 2012 by mabowersox

As this is likely my last blog post of the year, it seems appropriate to join the media bandwagon and reflect on all the good things from 2012. But I’ll spare you most of that and jump to the next … Continue reading →

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ENVI Users get ready to discuss image analytics at ENVIUS

Posted on August 30, 2012 by mabowersox

Next week I’m attending the 7th annual ENVI Classified User Symposium also known as ENVIUS. Exelis VIS organizes ENVIUS to provide defense and intelligence users with an opportunity to share their real-world experiences with the ENVI software. While the focus … Continue reading →

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VISualize 2012: Tracking Pine Beetle Forest Destruction

Posted on June 28, 2012 by brianfarrexelisvis

In my previous post, I talked about VISualize 2012 which we hosted at the World Wildlife Foundation in Washington DC.  The conference recently wrapped up and there were some great presentations about everything from crop management to declining arctic sea … Continue reading →

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How Imagery Can Be Used to Assess Fire Damage: The High Park Fire

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Cherie Darnel

The High Park Fire, just west of Fort Collins, Colorado, was sparked by lightening on Saturday, June 9th. At the time of this writing, the fire had burned over 58,000 acres and due to dry, hot weather, high wind conditions, … Continue reading →

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What makes a PED, a PED?

Posted on June 5, 2012 by mabowersox

The people who work in the Defense and Intelligence Community will attest to the large number of three letter acronyms they encounter daily. It’s not only the organizations (DoD, NGA, DIA, CIA, NSA, etc) but the technical terms too (NTM, … Continue reading →

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Communicating with Geospatial PDF’s

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Kate Heightley

A challenge often face by users of geospatial imagery is the ability to easily provide information from image analysis to those who don’t have access to the same software and tools. PDF (portable document format) are currently used as a … Continue reading →

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Multiple Data Modalities: Fusion not Confusion

Posted on May 22, 2012 by rlasica

While I am truly a great advocate of the phrase, “two head’s are better than one”, and might even expand the idea that “three are better than two”; when it comes to geospatial data I recognize it is a great … Continue reading →

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The VISeon Project

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Kate Heightley

As demand for commercial and industry software services in the cloud has grown, so has the demand for cloud-based geospatial image analysis services. This demand has increased because it gives a wider user-base easy access to the tools needed to … Continue reading →

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