SRI International
Menlo Park, CA
Artificial Intelligence Center
Perception Program

Automated Population of Geospatial Databases

DARPA Image Understanding

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

X 2/20-21/97: APGD Kickoff Meeting at SRI
X 5/11-14/97: IU Workshop, New Orleans, LA
X 5/15/97: IFD IPR and APGD Symposium #1, New Orleans, LA
X 8/14/97: IFD IPR, SRI, Menlo Park
X 11/19-20/97: IFD IPR and Symposium #2, Ft. Benning, GA
X 12/17/97: IFD IPR, SRI, Menlo Park, CA
X 2/1-2/3/98: IU PI Workshop, Santa Fe, NM
X 4/22/98: IFD IPR and Demo #1
X 4/98: FRE demos (at their sites)
X 5/18-19/98: IFD IPR and Symposium #3, Austin, TX (part of Terrain Week '98)
X 7/21/98: IFD IPR, SRI, Menlo Park,CA
X 9/24/98: IFD IPR, SRI, Menlo Park,CA
X 11/20/98: Demo at Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale,CA
X 11/21-23/98: The Last DARPA IU Workshop, Monterey, CA
X 1/27/99: IFD IPR and Demo #2
X 3/29-4/1/99: The Last DARPA IU PI Meeting, Callaway Gardens, GA
X 5/13/99: NIMA ADE Day (Talk and Demos)
X 6/30/99: DARPA IU Program ends (started in 1975)
X 7/26-30/99: Training at SRI for NIMA Personnel
X 7/28/99: IPR, SRI, Menlo Park, CA
X 7/31/99: DARPA funding ends; further project work funded by NIMA
X 9/1/99: Demo at DARPA ETE, JHU/APL
X 12/15/99: IPR, SRI, Menlo Park, CA
X 4/17-19/00: Dynamic Snake delivered to NIMA NPF-West (St. Louis, MO)
X 4/20-21/00: Dynamic Snake delivered to NIMA NPF-East (Bethesda, MD)
X 4/20/00: IPR, NIMA, Bethesda, MD
X 9/11-13/00: Automated Road Extraction System delivered to NIMA NPFs in Bethesda and Reston
X 9/11/00: IPR, NIMA, Reston, VA
X 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
Slides from briefings at Terrain Week '98, 5/18-22/1998, Austin, TX
Slides from Year 1 IPR and Demonstration, 4/22/98, Menlo Park, CA
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

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Aaron Heller <heller@ai.sri.com>
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