USAF tactical personnel require the ability to rapidly develop accurate geospatial 3D models to support combat operations and provide situational awareness for the warfighter. These 3D models are typically used in the planning of operations, to alert inform intelligence analysts, and are now streamed to boots-on-the-ground users equipped with augmented reality devices. Typically, the development of these 3D models is a time/computationally-intensive process and identifying key elements of interest is sometimes difficult. PixElement Centauri Group (Centauri) propose to reduce the time required to generate such models by leveraging PixElements optimized cloud based architecture for the generation of the 3D data from tactical imagery. Additionally, they will also enhance the utility of the 3D models by developing a RADAR enabled-change detection capability that projects change-detection metrics onto a highly accurate 3D model derived from Electro-Optical (EO) imagery, as shown in Figure 1. We call this program CERC: Cloud Enabled RADAR Change-detection. CERC leverages a cloud computing architecture in order to rapidly combine geospatially accurate 3D-models with RADAR imagery to determine when a scene changes. CERC will be able to alert USAF users to when a change has occurred and provide accurate geopositioned coordinates of the change to operational users.
