Smart Caching of Imagery for Carry On System (SCICOS)

The use of imagery is essential to the Navys maritime domain awareness. Ability to retrieve relevant imagery and retain these data sets for exploitation drastically improves the Navys ability to conduct Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance operations. Current imagery management systems do not account for users query and metadata filtering priorities, which can lead to loss of valuable imagery data as onboard storage capacity becomes limited. DZYNE Technologies proposes to develop the Smart Caching of Imagery for Carry On System (SCICOS) that leverages our experience in data management and image and metadata content extraction to provide a scalable imagery management system. We propose a data retention strategy (imagery caching) that leverages the users query and persistence rules to rank imagery priority. The SCICOS system handles imagery retention automatically based on users interaction and configuration of the persistence rule set, which allows the user to focus on their mission operations. The proposed effort will develop an end-to-end solution that supports (a) intuitive query and filter selection of imagery by metadata; (b) an automated imagery retention based on users usage and persistence rule definition; (c) a scalable framework for imagery management that automatically extracts metadata and imagery content to increase rapid search and retrieval.