Menlo Park, CA
Automated Population of Geospatial Databases
Subcontractors
GDE Systems Inc.
, San Diego, CA
Vexcel Corp.
, Boulder, CO
Title of Effort
An Integrated Feasibility Demonstration for Automatic Population of Geospatial Databases
Principal Investigator
Aaron J. Heller
(email)
(homepage)
Technical Staff
Christopher I. Connolly
(email)
(homepage)
Lynn H. Quam
(email)
Martin A. Fischler
(email)
Helen C. Wolf
(email)
Lee Iverson
(email)
(homepage)
Nat Bletter
(email)
Technical Area
Automatic Population of Geospatial Databases (APGD)
Approach
Abstract
Visionary System
Military/Battlefield Relevance
Innovative Ideas
Major Project Deliverables
Demonstrations scheduled
Annual Demo #1 -- 4/22/98, SRI, Menlo Park, CA
Annual Demo #2 -- 2/99, SRI, Menlo Park, CA
Meeting and Milestone Schedule
2/20-21/97:
APGD Kickoff Meeting at SRI
5/11-14/97: IU Workshop, New Orleans, LA
5/15/97: IFD IPR and APGD Symposium #1, New Orleans, LA
8/14/97: IFD IPR, SRI, Menlo Park
11/19-20/97:
IFD IPR and Symposium #2, Ft. Benning, GA
12/17/97: IFD IPR, SRI, Menlo Park, CA
2/1-2/3/98: IU PI Workshop, Santa Fe, NM
4/22/98: IFD IPR and Demo #1
4/98: FRE demos (at their sites)
5/18-19/98: IFD IPR and Symposium #3, Austin, TX (part of
Terrain Week '98
)
7/21/98: IFD IPR, SRI, Menlo Park,CA
9/24/98: IFD IPR, SRI, Menlo Park,CA
11/20/98: Demo at Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale,CA
11/21-23/98: The Last DARPA IU Workshop, Monterey, CA
1/27/99: IFD IPR and Demo #2
3/29-4/1/99: The Last DARPA IU PI Meeting, Callaway Gardens, GA
5/13/99: NIMA ADE Day (Talk and Demos)
6/30/99: DARPA IU Program ends (started in 1975)
7/26-30/99: Training at SRI for NIMA Personnel
7/28/99: IPR, SRI, Menlo Park, CA
7/31/99: DARPA funding ends; further project work funded by NIMA
9/1/99: Demo at DARPA ETE, JHU/APL
12/15/99: IPR, SRI, Menlo Park, CA
4/17-19/00:
Dynamic Snake
delivered to NIMA NPF-West (St. Louis, MO)
4/20-21/00:
Dynamic Snake
delivered to NIMA NPF-East (Bethesda, MD)
4/20/00: IPR, NIMA, Bethesda, MD
9/11-13/00:
Automated Road Extraction System
delivered to NIMA NPFs in Bethesda and Reston
9/11/00: IPR, NIMA, Reston, VA
12/5/00: IPR and Demos, SRI, Menlo Park, CA
12/31/2000: Scheduled End of Project
Publications
1998 DARPA IUW Workshop, 11/23/98, Monterey, CA
Principal Investigator Report
from the 1998 DARPA IU Workshop
Slides from Principal Investigator Briefing
Fischler and Heller,
``Automated Techniques for Road Network Modeling''
Slides from briefings at Terrain Week '98, 5/18-22/1998, Austin, TX
APGD Evaluation Metrics, Methodology, Rationale (Fischler)
Evaluation Day, Part 2 (Fischler)
Slides from Year 1 IPR and Demonstration, 4/22/98, Menlo Park, CA
Approach and Accomplishments (Fischler)
Scenario for Year 2 (Heller)
FEM, CBACS, and the Linear Feature Editor (Connolly)
Building Extraction Technology Demonstration (Pearson)
Slides
from briefing at 1998 PI Workshop, Santa Fe, NM
Slides
from "Data Flow and Year One Demo" briefing at APGD Symposium #2
Principal Investigator Report
from the 1997 DARPA IU Workshop
Slides
from briefing at 1996 PI Workshop, Williamsburg, VA
Monthly Reports
Relevant images with captions
Images
from briefing at 1996 PI Workshop
Project description viewgraph
(w/caption)
Links to additional sites that are relevant
DARPA Image Understanding Program
National Imagery and Mapping Agency
Terrain Modeling Project Office
The Defense Modeling & Simulation Office
SEDRIS (Synthetic Environment Data Representation & Interchange Specification)
SRI RADIUS Homepage
APGD Virtual Lab
Links to APGD FRE pages
Carnegie Mellon University:
Automated Cartographic Feature Attribution Using Panchromatic & Hyperspectral Imagery
Colorado State University:
Learning to Populate Geospatial Databases via Markov Decision Processes
MIT, Artificial Intelligence Lab:
City Scanning: Fully Automatic Acquisition of Hierarchical, Textured 3D Geometric Models of Urban Environments
University of Massachusetts:
Ascender II: Knowledge-Directed Image Understanding for Site Reconstruction
University of Southern California:
Knowledge-Based Automatic Feature Extraction
Links to SRI IUBA FRE pages
Continuous Terrain Modeling from Image Sequences with Applications to Change Detection
Extra Set of Eyes