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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has launched a multi-year research effort officials said is designed to automate broad-area search of multi-source satellite imagery.<\/p>\n
The Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART) program detects, monitors, and characterizes the progression of dynamic processes that include heavy construction or crop growth. <\/p>\n
Current manual exploitation methods do not scale well with the data volumes were receiving, and theres the problem of simultaneously analyzing data from past, current, and future space-based systems, IARPA Program Manager Jack Cooper said. SMART innovations in data fusion and machine learning techniques will enable automated broad area search at unprecedented temporal resolution and area coverage.<\/p>\n
Authorities indicated by augmenting the manual imagery analysis process with global-scale image processing and machine learning, SMART would provide timely discovery and robust monitoring of man-made and natural change.<\/p>\n
IARPA has awarded SMART research contracts to teams led by Accenture Federal Services, Kitware, BlackSky Geospatial Solutions, and Systems & Technology Research.<\/p>\n
IARPA invests in high-risk, high-payoff research programs to address some of the intelligence communitys most difficult challenges.<\/p>\n
The four research thrusts within IARPA are Analysis, which seeks to maximize insight from information collected in a timely fashion; Anticipatory Intelligence the development of technologies providing decision-makers with timely and accurate forecasts for a range of events relevant to national security; Collection striving to improve the value of collected data from all sources dramatically; and Computing, which endeavors to counter new capabilities implemented by adversaries that could threaten the ability to operate freely and effectively in a networked world.<\/p>\n
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