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Soldier-Deployable Geospatial Technologies
2017 AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition
Innovators Corner
Dr. Ricky MassaroDr. John AndersonGeospatial Research
LaboratoryEngineer Research and Development CenterUS Army Corps of
Engineers
11 October 2017
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What is SDGT?A collection of techs that enable Warfighters to
collect & produce high
resolution geospatial data on-demand and in a timely fashion
sUAS mapping Mast/Tower-mounted LiDAR FMV-to-3D
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SDGT ConceptFlow of geospatial products
Current paradigm SDGT objective
National Level
Tactical Level
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GRL Soldier-Deployable Geospatial Technologies –SDGTand
Deployable LiDAR “Filling in the Gaps”
• 1.5 lbs• 45 min endurance• Fully autonomous• RGB, CIR, MSI, or
thermal imagery• Rapidly produced orthomosaicsand digital elevation
models
• 30 ft mast (80 or 107 ft G-BOSS(E))• FMCW, SWIR, Class 1 laser
radar• 360º az x 100º el FOV • LOS range to approx 2 km•
Geopositional accuracy to cm level• Extremely high resolution
Mast/Tower-Mounted LiDAR
sUAS
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UAS Imagery Data and Terrestrial LiDARMerged LiDAR and UAS
photogrammetric point clouds
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Detail view of merged UAS point cloud and LiDAR
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SDGT Rapid Mapping UAS Pre-Deployment Training the 2BCT, 101st
–April 11-19, 2016
Cassidy MOUTeBee flight prep
Processingat Cassidy MOUT
Class Instruction
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Training 2BCT, 101st – April 11-19, 2016 (Ft.
Campbell)Deployment Sortie 1 (file: 20160413_115854.mp4)
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Training 2BCT, 101st - EBEE Training Sorties at Cassidy MOUT
~ 6 sq km collection over 6 RGB sorties + 1 CIR
Mission planning at Cassidy
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Training 2BCT, 101st – Processing of EBEE Cassidy Range
Collections
6 RGB orthomosaics in QGIS
Approx 4-5 cm/pix resolution
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Training 2BCT, 101st – Processing of EBEE Cassidy Range
Collections
Google Earth background
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Resulting superoverlay in Google EarthGeoreg accuracy ~1-2 m
horizontal with no GCPs
Training 2BCT, 101st – Processing of EBEE Cassidy Range
Collections
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Training 2BCT, 101st – Processing of EBEE Cassidy Range
Collections(Photogrammetric Point Cloud (file:
campbell_halftime.mp4)
3D photogrammetric point cloud colored by RGB imagery. The 3D
point cloud is a principal product of data processing.
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Training 2BCT, 101st – Processing of EBEE Cassidy Range
Collections
3D point cloud colored by elevation. The 3D point cloud is a
product of data processing.
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Collections by 2BCT, 101st ABN
- At least 4 separate areas (56 sorties)- Q-West largest area (~
8 sq km)- Approx 300 images/sortie (1 sq km @ 4 cm/pix)- Data
uploaded to GRiD-SIPR- Primarily used for base defense/planning-
EOD teams have found resulting data extremely useful
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FMV-to-3D MappingProject Information
• POC(s) and email addresses: Dr. Ricky Massaro,
[email protected], 703-428-3644
• Organization: USACE-ERDC Geospatial Research Lab• Government
funded? Yes• Source of gov’t funds or name of program: OUSD(I)
Intelligence
Investment Fund, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and US
Army Rapid Equipping Force
Highlights:• Software-only solution; does not require extra
hardware besides a
recommended dedicated processing laptop.• Creates 2D and 3D map
data from FMV in a matter of minutes,
even while ISR asset is still airborne.• All locally collected
and processed into immediately useable
geospatial products – no network connection required.•
Geospatial products can be ingested by a number of
visualization
and exploitation software (RaptorX, Google Earth, ArcGIS, etc)•
FMV-to-3D has been installed on NGA’s Research Lab Environment
for testing and evaluation. The software has also been
successfully used operationally within AFRICOM.
Capabilities:
What is it? Software: GOTS & COTS software solution which
ingests an FMV file or live UDP stream from an airborne asset.
Automated process extracts metadata and video frames for
importation into a photogrammetric processing software.
Hardware: Dedicated processing laptop desirable (rec’d specs:
32GB RAM, 2GB GDDR5 GPU, Intel i7 QuadCore CPU, 500GB SSD
storage)
What does it do? Generates 2D orthomosaics, 3D point clouds,
digital terrain models, 3D textured models from an FMV source.
How does it do it? GOTS software package processes an FMV file
or stream into separate cluster sets. Automatically creates a
script and runs it within a COTS photogrammetric processing
software. Geospatial products for each calculated cluster are then
automatically created and exported.
FMV Collection
Data extraction
Processing
Geospatial products
2-D orthos 3-D models
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WASABI - collected Oct 2015 from Beechcraft at 12-15,000’HD
1080p, EON and EOW, HDIR
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Thank You!
“Essayons!”
