Abstract

Generating High Fidelity 3D Environments from Imagery and LIDAR
Track: Defense and Intelligence
Authors: Matt Morris, Ian Carlson

Overwatch was selected by the Op3D program to design a distributed processing system for the Special Operations Forces Planning, Rehearsal and Execution Preparation (SOFPREP) group. The distributed processing system that was developed automatically tiles data into smaller pieces and distributes each piece to a separate workstation so that it can be processed in short order. This enhancement reduced overall processing time by orders of magnitude and thus dramatically increased analysts' efficiency. Overwatch was also tasked with integrating a 3D visualization application into LIDAR Analyst to facilitate exploitation, analysis, and dissemination of data sources into a visually compelling 3D view of the data and situation. This 3D application will handle all of the standard data formats used by GEOINT Analysts and users will have a suite of tools at their disposal to perform real-time analysis of the data including line-of-sight, landing zones, and 3D mensuration.