TECHNICAL PROPOSAL OIA SUPPORT SERVICES

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• Publication Date: August 1, 1977
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Technical Proposal
Office of Imagery Analysis
August 1977
TP-2-008
Submitted by
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FOREWORD
is pleased to submit this unsolicited
proposal for technical photogrammetric support to the Office of Imagery
Analysis at the National Photographic Interpretation Center. For over
ten years personnel have been'providing photogrammetric
support to the Photogrammetry Division of the Technical Support Group
at NPIC. This support has included performing the mathematical
analysis, writing the computer programs, installing them on the NPIC
computers, training NPIC personnel in their use, and performing data
reductions on a wide range of photogrammetric problems from sophisti-
cated satellite reconnaissance photographic systems to the more
conventional hand-held terrestrial photography. Other support work
has included photogrammetric instrument design, test and evaluation,
mensuration instrumentation calibration, field ground truth collection
and documentation, preparations of P.I. keys, and special system
studies.
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Section
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title
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INTRODUCTION ....................................
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Background ......................................
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TECHNICAL APPROACH ..............................
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STATEMENTS OF QUALIFICATIONS .....................
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
research and development-services in the then new and exotic field
of remote sensing. In 1962,1
and maintained as a wholly-owned subsidiary...
was founded independently in 1957, offering
now offers a full range of services in
three related technical areas: photogrammetric engineering and
mapping; remote sensor image interpretation and analysis; and map
based information systems. Most of the same individuals, equipment
and capabilities developed when
continue with the new entity of
Personnel of have been involved in the
design, evaluation and reduction of conventional and unconventional
photogrammetric systems for almost twenty (20) years. They have
been involved in the reduction of satellite imagery from the beginning
of the space program. A major effort was spent in designing the RECAP
program for the Army Map Service for the reduction of KH-5 material.
For the Lunar Mapping Program, personnel set up the Lunar
Mapping Laboratory of NASA at Houston, Texas, and supervised and
staffed this entire effort.
Currently
has a professional staff of nearly
forty (40) individuals with expertise in various aspects of reconnais-
sance system data reduction and exploitation. Personnel include
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senior and junior level Photogrammetrists, Mathematicians, Computer
Programmers, Photo Interpreters, and Instrumentation Engineers as well
as the necessary support.staff. Almost all of the.9taff have at least
a TOP SECRET clearance with access to SI/TK material. Where required,
special level clearances are possessed for work on the latest programs.
The facility-itself has a work and storage area dedicated
to SI/TK material exploitation. Current major programs include:
1) A photogrammetric support group at NPIC performing
computer programming, data reduction, and analysis on
and terrestrial photography,. mensuration, instrumentation calibrations
and acceptance testing, and ground truth collection and documentation.
2) A mathematical modelling and computer programming
group at the Naval Intelligence Support Center preparing mathematical
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mono and stereo including full error propagation. They have designed
and developed a large block photogrammetric reduction program which
may be used for conventional photographic imagery. In addition, they
have designed and installed the necessary hardware and software for a
twenty terminal real-time mensuration system.
5) Special studies such as:
?Point transfer techniques on Analytical
Point Positioning Systems (APPS)
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-Impact of near-real-time systems on
exploitation facilities
-Design of map update capability for
Engineer Topographic Units
Use of mensuration on unconventional
reconnaissance material.
personnel'are.at the forefront
of current photogrammetric problems..
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2. TECHNICAL APPROACH
proposes a time and materials (T&M) type
contract to OIA as.being the most suitable for their needs. A given
funding level may.be.designated by OIA, and a contract written not to
exceed this amount. Then, as tasks are defined, personnel can be
supplied to carry out the work. personnel are avail-
able to handle any and all aspects of standard and special photo-
grammetric mensuration and data reduction. This could range from
supplying skilled mensuration technicians to perform mensuration on
on the Center's equipment and using the
Center's Real-Time Mensuration Programs, to.performing any or all
aspects of complex data reduction using own block ad-
justment programs. This latter effort could include just the
mensuration, or include the complete data reduction using computer
programs with error propagation and, if desired, preparations of all
or part of the reports, complete with line drawings.
Currently, personnel. are engaged in
placing a large block adjustment computer program (GIANT) on the
Agency's IBM System 360 computer. This program, which has the
capability of processing data from a block up to one hundred photo-
graphs, is used mainly for detailed study of clandestine terrestrial
photographic projects. The Time and Materials contract which has been
used to support the Photogrammetric Division at NPIC for over ten
years, has come to an end at the end of September 1976, and this
support will no longer be available to NPIC under the old procedures.
proposes to make this same team, with
over twenty years cumulative experience in dealing with NPIC's
photogrammetric problems, available to OIA in support of their specific
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problems. The team consists of
with support provided by junior.level.staff. In addition, in depth
support and advice can.be:provided by a very strong photogrammetric
group which has been working on problems similar to those faced by OIA
at the NISC. This team is lead by Iwho has
his Ph.D. in photogrammetry and is ably supported by a number of
computer programming specialists and junior personnel.
Under a Time and Materials contract, OIA may contract for
as much or as little work as is desired. Again,
personnel may do as much of a job, including essentially all of it,
including writing the final reports and preparing briefing boards, or
as little as is desired. What we would like to propose here is the
following:
One individual, nearly full-time, to act as designer,
instructor, and&executer of special photogrammetric problems with
hand-held and block type reduction projects. He is familiar with
all of the problems, and able to lead a complex reduction project
associated with special technical intelligence problems.
One individual, part-time, to oversee the needs of OIA
and that the best resources available are being applied to the job.
Several individuals, on an as needed basis, to serve
essentially as mensuration technicians, draftsmen and general per-
formers of the mensuration tasks.
If OIA would like to partake to the latest data reduction
programs, used to reduce hand-held or block type data, work would
need to be expended to finish putting these in a format easy to use
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at the OIA area. A block adjustment program, when operating on the
Headquarter's.IBM System 360 computer could be accessed for most of
the data reduction by the CRT/Teletype terminals within the OIA area.
Although this capability is not currently in the program it could be
added. It is proposed initially to make one person available, full-
time, to get the computer programs up and running to do the job OIA
requires to be done.
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direct the individuals in their specific tasks, and modify the com-
puter programs to make them fully useful to the OIA requirements.
Later he would spend a limited amount of time ensuring that the
best resources are applied to OIA's needs.
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is proposed, part-time, to direct and over-
over the years, and currently employed in the NPIC Mensuration Branch
and at NISC.
He is quite familiar with all of the programs developed by
see the special hand-held and block data reduction problems for OIA.
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are proposed on an as needed basis in order to perform the actual
mensuration and prepare the engineering drawings where required.
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In addition, the consultant service of
team of computer programmers, is working at the forefront of the
most precise data reduction programs, prepared for classified imagery
to date. These programs and this team would be available as special
requirements emerged at OIA.
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would be available as the need arose. He along with a skilled
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Others, as detailed in the resumes included at the end of this proposal,
could be made available in addition to those already specified.
In order for you to be able to estimate the cost of a
particular level of effort, the following forword pricing rates are
given below. These should only be used for budgetary purposes; final
rates will be agreed to during contract negotations. However, barring
any unforeseen delay in the start of a contract, the negotiated rates
should be close to those given below:
Category
Consulting Scientist
Principal Scientist
Senior Scientist
Scientist
Associate Scientist
Senior Technical Clerk
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3. STATEMENTS OF QUALIFICATIONS
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STATEMENT.
OF,
CAPABILITIES
IMAGERY EXPLOITATION
.INFORMATION EXTRACTION
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1. BACKGROUND
I Iwas founded independently in 1957, offering research and
development services in the then new and exotic field of remote sensing. In
1962
became part of in 1977 the
was purchased by
maintained as a wholly-owned subsidiary....
now offers a full range of services in three related
technical areas: photogrammetric engineering and mapping; remote sensor image
interpretation and analysis; and map based informations systems.
2. CAPABILITIES
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In it's field, provides the link between user
requirements and system hardware/software design which is essential to effec-
tive development of reconnaissance/remote sensing/mapping systems and is be-
coming increasingly important as systems and potential users proliferate.
Whether in system development or application, a user faces two basic
problems. Be must (1) select and develop the reconnaissance/remote sensing
system with the greatest Information EXtraction potential for his purposes,
and (2) employ the Ima er EXploitation technology through which this potential
can best be realized. Only when the IEX functions are successfully exercised
at all stages of research, development, test, evaluation, and operational
application are remote sensing systems optimized or optimum information pro-
ducts generated.
focuses on these IEX functions for its clients,
providing superior qualitative and quantitative image analyses and evaluations,
exploitation system designs and development, and associated data procsioguser
and software systems which are both cost-effective and fully responsive
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25X1 A f ield,
In almost two decades of highly varied activity in the remote sensing
has developed expertise in dealing with frame,
panoramic and strip cameras; the full range of photographic film types; infra-
red imagers; brute-force, coherent side-looking and spotlight radars; electro-
optical systems; laser imagers; and other multi-spectral sensors. We-have
worked successfully for and with military, governmental and commercial organ-
izations alike. Figure 1 shows where Autometric Incorporated brings its exper-
tise to bear in the reconnaissance/remote sensing chain. A representative
list of clients is presented in Table 1.
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ORGANIZATION
The Istaff, numbering approximately forty, is made up of
scientists, engineers, and skilled technicians drawn from the primary dis-
ciplines necessary to successful pursuit of our role in the remote/sensing/
reconnaissance cycle. Specifically, the human resources whichi can 25X1
bring to bear on military, intelligence, and civil applications programs in-
clude-the following:
Imagery Interpreters
Exploitation Systems Engineers
Human Factors
Geoscientists
Photogrammetrist/Mensuration Specialists
Computer Systems Analysts/Programmers
Intelligence Analysts
Mapping/Civil Engineers
This interdisciplinary staff, acting together within the flexible
management structure shown in Figure 2, assures the ultimate information user
that all aspects of his particular remote sensing or reconnaissance problem
are fully considered, and properly weighed and balanced against one another.
This, in turn, ensures technical and cost-effectiveness in the design or
application of the acquisition, processing or exploitation system.
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An example of the successful transfer of remote sensing research into
superior system development is the Analytical Photogrammetric Processing
System (APPS). pioneered in the evaluation and special software
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REQUIREMENT DEFINITION
DATA BASE
MAINTENANCE/APPLICATION
L-4 DISSEMINATION/COMMUNICATION
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DATA EST ACQUISIGATION/SELECTION
ACQUISITION PLANN
ING
GROUNDiAEROSPACE
DATA COLLECTION
COORDINATION/EVALUATION
DATA REDUCTION
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FIGURE 1 - THE REMOTE SENSING/RECONNAISSANCE CHAIN -
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DATA ANALYSIS/MXl'LOlTA'CIUN
SENSORGRAMt1ETRY/IMAGE INTERPRETATION
SYSTEM DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT/EVALUATION
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INFORMATION DOCUMENTATION
SENSOR IMAGERY/DATA
ACQUISITION COMMUNITY
REMOTE SENSING/RECONNAISSANCE
RESOURCES
OVERHEAD
REMOTE SENSING CAPABILITY
GROUND DATA
COLLECTION CAPABILITY
DATA HANDLING/MANAGEMENT
HARD/SOFTWARE RESOURCES
SPECIAL DISCIPLINARY
EXPERTISE
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development for this Army system utilizing a variety of remote sensing/
25X1A reconnaissance inputs. now has total responsibility
for all APPS software, hardware, and map based information system developments.
This currently includes complete APPS development for wetlands mapping of the
U.S. for the Department of Interior/Fish & Wildlife Service as well as for
other Army, Airforce, and Navy Military applications.
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]has also developed a network of professional industrial and aca-
demic associations in the disciplines which immediately support or utilize
our technology, such as ground data collection and surveying, aerial and space
photography, remote sensor imagery and data collection, instrumentation, geo-
logy, geomorphology, and digital and electro-optical equipment manufacture, to
name a few. When programs require it, we also provide products and services
drawn from such disciplines on the basis of rigorously specified sub-contracts
with firms and individuals pf proven capability and integrity.
Through years of national and international experience,
as a "high technology" entity, is also organized for, and
committed, to the orderly transfer of technology for the benefit of all elements
of society. Thus, we have been active in making state-of-the-art military re-
mote sensing reconnaissance technology, imagery, and extracted information
economically and technically useful for civilian purposes. For instance,
has pioneered in the declassification of side-looking radar, infrared,
and photographic sensor systems and imagery; and their transfer to civil uses
in programs of mapping, resource and environmental management, arms control,
and disaster assessment.
FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT
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In support of its programs in remote sensing research, photogrammetric
engineering, and geographic information system design and development, the
facility contains appropriate imagery and date exploitation equip-
ment. Included are stereo and monoscopic imagery viewers, a 0 comparator 25X1A
with digital readout, a micro-densitometer/isodensitracer, stereoscopic point
transfer devices, layout tables, and secure working areas, storage vaults and
files. The working laboratory is arranged to accomodate multiple projects
at any level of security, and to provide appropriate spaces for interpretation
and photogrammetric evaluation tasks; experimentation, and production tasks
such as plotting, indexing, mosaicking and screening. Computers utilized,
both at commercial and government agencies, include, among other, the CDC-6700
6600, and 6400 ; UNIVAC-1108 and 494; IBM-360 and 370; NOVA 1200; SEL 32/55;
and HP 9810, 9830, and 21MX. These have been used for analytical photogrammetry,
digital image processing, system simulation, and other reconnsiassance, intel-
ligence, and remote sensor exploitation purposes.
facility has been granted a TOP SECRET clearance by
action of DCASR, Philadelphia, PA.
5. SUMMARY
has been organized, staffed and equipped to
offer remote sensing services in photogrammetric engineering; image analysis;
development of computer software; image processing; and information systems
at the highest levels of efficiency and economy consistent with technical
excellance.
For further information about our capabilities, you are invited to 25X1A
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6. EXPERIENCE
contract experience is summarized
in the following pages. Section 6.1 covers experience in general func-
tional areas, citing selected projects by name, customer, period of
performance and work synopsis. Section 6.2 contains a listing of
classified and special security work which is applicable to the pro-
posed OIA contract.
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GENERAL
This portion of the Statement of Qualifications is presented to
OIA in order to indicate the range of special security work and other
contract efforts which are directly applicable to the proposed OIA
support center.
These programs/studies primarily have been performed in connec-
tion with the National Reconnaissance Program (NRP) and, as such,
relate to strategic high altitude (satellite and aircraft) operational
and R&D reconnaissance programs.
PROGRAMS
I over the past 15 years, has
performed supporting RDT&E in the exploitation area with the various
Talent and Talent-Keyhole image-forming systems. This research has
included both photogrammetric and photointerpretation areas and has
been performed primarily for the National Photographic Interpretation
Center and the U.S. Army. Some indication of the work conducted
through 1973 is shown in Table 2.
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Navy Space Project Office (PM-16, now PME-106) and Naval Intelligence
Support Center (NISC) in the exploitation of current and future KH
systems from both an interpretation and photogrammetric standpoint.
Additional contracts have been performed for other aerospace companies.
Feedbacks have resulted, related to Naval collection system needs for
ocean surveillance as well as the actual design and implementation of
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Other similar special access
evaluations and systems work is being, or expected to be, conducted in
the radar, E-0,
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In addition to DOD and Intelligence Community, separate studies
have been performed for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency where
acted as expert consultants in the reconnaissance area for
both SALT and MBFR potential applications.
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7. PERSONNEL
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appropriate to this
OIA proposal, follow.
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