Virtual GEOINT Center: C2ISR through an avatar's eyes

Seibert, Mark; Tidbal, Travis; Basil, Maureen; Muryn, Tyler; Scupski, Joseph; Williams, Robert L.

doi:10.1117/12.2018516

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“…Further, the sensor data and analyzed data was streamed into virtual world thru a collaborative Virtual GeoInt project 11 Finally, the current static storage architecture would not scale when the users increase and the data associated with them. A novel and extensible cloud storage architecture, called Persistent Surveillance data processing Storage and retrieval Architecture (PSSA) 9,10 , is being explored as the dynamic event storage.…”

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Smartphones for distributed multimode sensing: biological and environmental sensing and analysis

Feitshans¹,

Williams

2013

SPIE Proceedings

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Active and Agile Environmental and Biological sensing are becoming obligatory to generate prompt warnings for the troops and law enforcements conducting missions in hostile environments. The traditional static sensing mesh networks which provide a coarse-grained (far-field) measurement of the environmental conditions like air quality, radiation , CO2, etc … would not serve the dynamic and localized changes in the environment, which requires a fine-grained (near-field) sensing solutions. Further, sensing the biological conditions of (healthy and injured) personnel in a contaminated environment and providing a personalized analysis of the life-threatening conditions in real-time would greatly aid the success of the mission. In this vein, under SATE and YATE programs, the research team at AFRL Tec^Edge Discovery labs had demonstrated the feasibility of developing Smartphone applications , that employ a suite of external environmental and biological sensors, which provide fine-grained and customized sensing in real-time fashion. In its current state, these smartphone applications leverage a custom designed modular standalone embedded platform (with external sensors) that can be integrated seamlessly with Smartphones for sensing and further provides connectivity to a back-end data architecture for archiving, analysis and dissemination of real-time alerts. Additionally, the developed smartphone applications have been successfully tested in the field with varied environmental sensors to sense humidity, CO2/CO, wind, etc…, ; and with varied biological sensors to sense body temperature and pulse with apt real-time analysis

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Smartphones for distributed multimode sensing: biological and environmental sensing and analysis

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Williams

2013

SPIE Proceedings

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“…GEOINT, for example, is a virtual command center that gathers information from other teams and displays the information in the virtual environment for all to see. [5] The data center as seen in Fig. 1 was specially constructed to allow a wide range of data viewing from multiple angles.…”

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STEM collaboration in virtual world academy

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Williams²

2013

2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)

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There is general agreement about the importance of increasing the number of students choosing career fields in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). However most of the initiatives designed to get students interested in STEM fields are constrained by floor space, budget, or driving distance. These factors, in combination, act to limit the affordability and accessibility of research opportunities in STEM fields to students in schools faced with increasingly limited budgets or lacking access to experienced STEM teachers. Since a trained STEM workforce is crucial to tackling research challenges of importance to the Air Force and the nation, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Discovery Lab program has developed a Virtual Reality Academy (VRA) program utilizing open source virtual reality software, Open Simulator, to create a virtual collaboration environment called Virtual (reality) Discovery Center (VDC). This 16-region VDC is the key to the Discovery Lab's 1,000 Student Outreach initiative designed to greatly expand the Discovery Lab's ability to make project-based"hands-on" research experience accessible to students across the country via the Open Simulator collaboration technologies. This paper highlights many of the successful efforts to establish VDC Virtual Learning Academies in areas such as Biology, Nanotechnology, Computer Vision, and Mobile Computing (smartphone apps). This paper is not a scientific study of Open Simulator as a collaboration tool for STEM but rather a descriptive overview of its successful implementation locally and nationally -suggesting its potential as a game-changer in STEM education and research.

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Virtual GEOINT Center: C2ISR through an avatar's eyes

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Smartphones for distributed multimode sensing: biological and environmental sensing and analysis

Smartphones for distributed multimode sensing: biological and environmental sensing and analysis

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