{"id":73226,"date":"2016-08-15T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9f7df1ea185f45456ce50b59df4ad0e3"},"modified":"2016-08-15T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:00:22","slug":"news-story-extracting-visual-navigation-data-from-open-source-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73226","title":{"rendered":"News story: Extracting visual navigation data from open-source imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qinetiq.com\">QinetiQ<\/a> has received Centre for Defence Enterprise (<abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr>) funding to find ways to extract open-source imagery to construct 3D point cloud models which could help with navigation without using global positioning systems (<abbr title=\"global positioning systems\">GPS<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>QinetiQ has developed a tool chain that shows that open source data from \u2018non-iconic\u2019 locations is, on average, 580 times less dense than the highly curated datasets. Open-source data has a very low proportion of data with geo-reference information: on average 6% compared to 60% in curated test sets.<\/p>\n<p>As open-source imagery and videography increase in this social media age, this technology would allow more detailed information to be extracted and put to use in a military environment. An example would be the ability to track the change of terrain over a period of time.<\/p>\n<p>In the future this technology and technique of retrieving geo-location could provide significant advantages as an alternative location method especially when <abbr title=\"global positioning systems\">GPS<\/abbr> is unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>The potential development routes include: providing denser mapping from combinations of video and image data from more sources of open source data and satellite\/aerial data; filtering out unusable data; modifying the geo-location algorithm to make it more resilient to <abbr title=\"global positioning systems\">GPS<\/abbr> outliers; and a focus on alternative uses for the tool chain such as open source image analysis to improve on image data which lacks metadata.<\/p>\n<p>QinetiQ is a British defence, science and technology organisation. Founded in 2001 it has its headquarters in Farnborough, Hampshire and has approximately 9000 employees worldwide.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"about-cde\">About <abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p><abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> funds novel, high-risk, high-potential-benefit research. We work with the broadest possible range of science and technology providers, including academia and small companies, to develop cost-effective capabilities for UK armed forces and national security.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory\">Dstl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_1917\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Centre for Defence Enterprise<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">Building R103<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFermi Avenue<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"locality\">Harwell Oxford<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"region\">Oxfordshire<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postal-code\">OX11 0QX<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:cde@dstl.gov.uk\">cde@dstl.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone <\/span><br \/>\n              +44 (0)30 67704236\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Alternative number<\/span><br \/>\n              +44 (0)30 67704237\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"comments\">Please email for the quickest response.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case study from QinetiQ who will pitch their ideas to industry and investors at the CDE Marketplace on 6 September 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}