Commercial Imagery Program Overview 8 October 2003 GeoTech Conference

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1 Know the Earth NATIONAL IMAGERY AND MAPPING AGENCY Show the Way Commercial Imagery Program Overview 8 October 2003 GeoTech Conference This Briefing is Sande Webster (703)

2 Commercial Imagery What s Changed? U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy (National Security Presidential Directive) (April 2003): Advance and protect national security interests Sustain and enhance U.S. leadership in the remote sensing industry Foster economic growth Enable S&T excellence Contribute to environmental stewardship DCI Guidance (June 2002): Use commercial imagery as the primary source for mapping Integrate commercial imagery into the architecture 2

3 Commercial Imagery What s Changed (Cont d)? Operational Experience: Growing appreciation of commercial imagery utility Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan Operation Iraqi Freedom Increasingly important for supporting military operations and providing geospatial intelligence* * Geospatial intelligence is information about any object natural or human that can be observed or referenced to the earth. 3

4 Commercial Imagery Business Plan Strategy Use commercial imagery funding to satisfy mission requirements Manage program and execute Functional Manager responsibilities for the customers and users of commercial imagery Integrate commercial imagery into the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSGI) Architecture 4

5 Why Commercial Imagery? Provide unclassified information and analysis Public diplomacy and information Diplomatic initiatives and negotiations involving coalition partners and foreign governments Humanitarian relief and reconstruction Natural/Manmade catastrophes and disasters Augment NTM resources 5

6 World Trade Center Map and Corresponding Images IKONOS 1-meter Panchromatic imagery 30 June 2000 IKONOS 1-meter Panchromatic imagery Courtesy the City of New York and Urban Data Solutions. Copyright 2000 and 2001 Space Imaging, LLC. 15 September 2001 Commercial satellite panchromatic and multispectral imagery combined with airborne hyperspectral imagery to identify key environmental and fire hazards and assist in salvage and rescue operations. 6

7 Monitor Vegetation Growth Multi-spectral signatures can help assess the health of vegetation Landsat 7 Imagery from Eros Data Center. Copyright 2002, DigitalGlobe Inc. Licensed for DoD/Title 50 Use only. Shades of green show maturity of growth Copyright 2002, DigitalGlobe Inc. Licensed fordod/title 50 Use only. Landsat 7 Imagery from Eros Data Center. Copyright 2002, DigitalGlobe Inc. Licensed for DoD/Title 50 Use only. 7

8 Patriot Deployments Commercial multispectral imagery used to discern wet areas for the 12 th Air Defense Artillery in the An Nasiriyah area. Heavy equipment deployment required knowledge of soil moisture and composition. Source: NIMA NST V Corps U.S. Army (Camp Virginia, Kuwait) 8

9 Prepare for Heavily Attended Events Imagery purchased from SURDEX Corporation Draped over LIDAR 9

10 Force Protection Forward UAV Operating Base IKONOS imagery, orthorectified, 23 kilometers southwest of the city of An Najaf. Provided to 320 th Engineers before beginning operations at this Forward Operating Base for a UAV launch and retrieval facility Space Imaging. LLC Source: NIMA NST V Corps U.S. Army 10

11 Baghdad Oil Fires Used by CENTCOM to demonstrate that fires were not the result of U.S. bombing. By using Eagle Vision downlink capability, delivered imagery of high currency. Source: Eagle Vision 1 11

12 Baghdad Bomb Damage Assessment QuickBird images of Baghdad used in CENTCOM briefing to the media demonstrating the accuracy and precision of bombings. As depicted in the images, only presidential palaces and government buildings suffered damage whereas residential dwellings were left untouched. Imagery tasked and taken by QuickBird satellite on April 9, DigitalGlobe Inc 12

13 Search for Refugee Locations LOC LANDSAT-7 7 Composite 24 JAN FEB 2003 Commercial imagery was used to search for potential refugee camps and to cue collection by alternative sources. Spectral change detection techniques and panchromatic capabilities were employed in the search. 11 NOV 2001 IKONOS Mile 46 Camp LANDSAT-7 Composite LANDSAT-7 Compo site 18 NOV FEB MAR Space Imaging LLC 13

14 Support FEMA: Hurricane Readiness Situational Awareness Population Potentially Impacted by Hurricane Est. Population Imagery, elevation data, and thematic layers could be used to predict, assess, and visualize the impact of flooding on a city Space Imaging, Inc. (All rights reserved) 14

15 ClearView Contract ClearView Contract awarded January 2003 Multi-year contract covering 5 years Three-year guarantees to high-resolution companies Assures access to key areas of interest Significantly reduced per unit cost over previous contracts Broad license agreements Archive management with providers 15

16 U.S. High-Resolution ClearView License Model Imagery may be used across the USG USG may provide to following organizations when working with the USG on a joint project State Governments Local Governments Foreign Governments and inter-governmental organizations NGO s and other non-profit organizations Joint Project Cooperation between USG and entities listed above in activities such as: Coalition force operations US Homeland Security Exercises Co-production Relief efforts Co-producers may retain imagery if: Production over other than home country Used for intelligence, military, and humanitarian purposes 16

17 NextView Acquisition Ensure availability of future commercial imagery capability past mid decade Address community s future commercial imagery requirements Improved accuracy and resolution Broad area coverage Timely tasking and dissemination Ensure global access U.S. Government reservation of time over high interest areas Cost advantages for advance quantity commitment 17

18 Recently Established U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy President Bush signed the new U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy on April 25, 2003: Establishes guidance and implementation actions for commercial remote sensing space capabilities Supercedes Presidential Decision Directive (PDD)-23, U.S. Policy on Foreign Access to Remote Sensing Capabilities, dated March 9, 1994 The U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy sets forth a major change in the relationship between the U.S. Government and the U.S. commercial remote sensing industry by providing guidance for: The licensing and operation of U.S. commercial remote sensing space systems U.S. Government use of commercial remote sensing capabilities Foreign access to U.S. commercial remote sensing space capabilities Government-to-Government intelligence, defense, and foreign policy relationships involving U.S. commercial remote sensing space capabilities 18

19 Recently Established U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy (Continued) What does the U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy do? The policy fixes the practical and legal weaknesses of PDD-23 through implementation actions or plans to be performed by various U.S. Government agencies, including plans to aggressively facilitate market expansion The policy mandates respective agency budget allocations to accomplish these actions and short timelines and imposes an NSC reporting requirement for implementation of those actions Establish NIMA as the agency to for the acquisition and distribution of commercial remote sensing data, imagery, products, and services for national security and foreign policy purposes 19

20 CI Program Summary We are aggressively integrating commercial imagery into our business plans, processes and architecture Commercial imagery is an essential source to NIMA s production of geospatial intelligence We are developing a growing partnership with the industry to leverage its capabilities to meet our mission needs and those of our customers Commercial imagery s great value lies in the flexibility and versatility of combining it with data and information from other sources to present an integrated geospatial intelligence picture to our customers 20

21 Back Ups 21

22 Safety of Navigation HarborView Sail-Through Fly-Through Bathymetry 3-D View 22

23 Visualize Blast Effects Analyze Potential Impacts Analytic project to render and animate structural damage in the context of photorecognizable 3D site models for analysis and decision-making (contains data 2002 Airphoto USA all rights reserved) Blast Modeling Prototype integrated commercial offthe-shelf (COTS) software technologies to provide photorealistic 3D visualization and structural blast analysis for vulnerability assessment and threat analysis. 23