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- Royal School of Military Survey
Defence and Security
Security
In these days of heightened internal security threat, imagery technology is playing an increasingly important role. A recent Intellect sponsored workshop launched a Digital Imaging Project to understand how imaging technology can assist the police and internal security forces in enhancing law enforcement. Covering CCTV, archiving, storage and novel capture devices (like head cams) the report also highlighted satellite imagery and aerial photography and its exploitation as also playing a key role. Remote sensing and photogrammetry can provide;
- The ability to create rapid 3D models of sensitive and critical national infrastructure sites
- Collection and processing of street level data from oblique imagery or mobile terrestrial LIDAR
- Mapping support for monitoring, surveillance and tracking applications
- Use of remotely sensed imagery to support counter narcotics campaigns
Defence
In an increasingly unstable world internationally, the need to have higher content and up to date mapping for deployed operations is becoming more important. The international Multi-national Geo-spatial Co-Production (MGCP) program typifies the utility of satellite imagery. As the largest consumer of satellite imagery for decades, the defence industry has long recognised the benefit of rapid and frequent coverage to permit mapping of inaccessible, hazardous or hostile areas with impunity. The highest resolution imagery is commonly used for intelligence gathering and examples of application include;
- Verification of nuclear non-proliferation treaties
- Weapons and armaments de-commissioning
- Targeting
- Training & simulation e.g., mission planning
- Strategic border surveillance
- Wide area maritime surveillance for EEZ protection and illegal shipping
