Bandwidth-smart UAV video systems in distributed networked operations

Abstract

The growing infrastructure of domestic broadband, internet cafes and cities with global wireless support is driving instant and flexible access to visual information, personalized for the consumer. At the same time national defense and intelligence systems are also becoming internet enabled and access to information is becoming faster and more personalized. Existing systems for collecting and storing the data and for searching and dissemination are powerful but stove-piped architectures that require a more centralized solution. The video arrives in either analog or digital form with little or no preprocessing on the platform. Once in the mobile analysis center or within government libraries, the data can be searched and delivered to be exploited by specialized systems. This paper describes an alternative approach to system design and deployment in a NetCentric environment. This involves breaking capture, logging, processing, editing, exploitation and dissemination into flexible components that can be distributed on the network.