Analysis of Operational Airborne ISR Full Motion Video Metadata

Author

Bennett, Bruce ; Bussert, Dillon ; Goldstein, D.

Author_Institution

Defense Inf. Syst. Agency, Fort Meade, MD, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

18-20 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

323

Lastpage

327

Abstract

Digital metadata embedded into Full Motion Video (FMV) generated by Airborne ISR (AISR) platforms provides extensive data about ISR missions, aircraft and operations. In this paper, we analyze metadata generated by 80 AISR platforms over a week period to better understand what type of metadata is generated, how often it´s sent, and how it meets metadata standards. Metadata analysis results show AISR platforms implement metadata differently, following multiple standards, transmitting at wide-ranging rates and sending a varying set of information, sometimes not according to specifications. We provide recommendations to improve metadata for specific platforms and ideas for future analysis of FMV metadata.

Keywords

meta data; military communication; military computing; video signal processing; video streaming; ISR missions; airborne ISR full motion video metadata; aircraft; digital metadata; metadata analysis; Feeds; Market research; Security; Sensors; Standards; Streaming media; Transform coding; 0104; 0601; ESD; FMV; ISR; KLV; Line21; MISB; Motion Imagery; metadata;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2013.63

Filename

6735643