You are here

Self-Corrective Remote Imagery Prediction System (SCRIPS)

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Missile Defense Agency
Contract: HQ0006-08-C-7818
Agency Tracking Number: B073-033-0124
Amount: $99,995.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: MDA07-033
Solicitation Number: 2007.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2007
Award Year: 2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2008-02-13
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2009-08-13
Small Business Information
1700 Research Boulevard Suite 250
Rockville, MD 20850
United States
DUNS: 196004394
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Kwo-Sun Kuo
 Sr. Research Scientist
 (301) 614-6277
 kskuo@solutions.caelum.com
Business Contact
 Paul Chan
Title: Sr. Vice President
Phone: (301) 424-8205
Email: pchan@caelum.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The U.S. military has been using satellite IR images to monitor ground missile activities of hostile nations. Successful IR monitoring of ground features requires us to account for the intervening weather conditions that can have an adverse impact on intelligence gathering. The proposed Self-Corrective Remote Imagery Prediction System (SCRIPS) will produce up to 72 hours of forecasts for any bandpass of IR imagery based on forecast mesoscale atmospheric conditions. The SCRIPS will integrate existing and well tested atmospheric models such as radiative transfer, atmospheric correction, and cloud masking. SCRIPS will also utilize forecast atmospheric state conditions from numerical weather prediction system. We will periodically improve the approach through adjustment of the radiative transfer model and updating the baseline image database. In the Phase I effort, we will incorporate a suitable atmospheric correction algorithm and an appropriate forward radiative transfer algorithm, select an appropriate mesoscale weather prediction product, prototype SCRIPS to predict IR images and to automatically update baseline database and adjust radiative transfer parameters.

* Information listed above is at the time of submission. *

US Flag An Official Website of the United States Government