Prologue: Motion Imagery Revolutions Underway Question: How will DoD / IC / USIGS Leverage These Revolutions?
Multiple, world-wide digital motion imagery revolutions underway
- Analog to Digital
- Digital to Data
- Interlace to Progressive Scanning
- No metadata to fully enabled metadata
Standards and products are real
- Digital satellite / DVD / terrestrial television broadcast (all use MPEG-2)
- US digital migration underway, 2006 end of analog television
- DoD/IC/USIGS / Disney, ABC, Fox, Microsoft, PC99 Specification have all chosen 720p as DTV format (MPEG-2 720p HDTV “free” on every new PC!)
Bottom Line: How will DoD / IC / USIGS leverage these commercial Motion Imagery revolutions to bring superior technology to the battlespace / intelligence-space of the future?
- New National Motion Imagery Program will lead DoD/IC/USIGS Motion Imagery community to deliver universally interoperable, superior quality, cost manageable motion imagery systems to our warfighters!