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Full Motion Video

Tactical video feeds have become a critical source of intelligence and information for our troops and commanders in the execution of their mission. From the frontlines in Iraq and Afghanistan to behind the lines in Pakistan and other areas of interest for war fighters and intelligence gatherers, our unmanned vehicles and video sources are producing enormous amounts of information to be transmitted and analyzed. This must be accomplished quickly, securely, and accurately to ensure the best actionable intelligence and effectiveness in prosecuting missions.

Advances in video technologies have been significant over the past decade including the ability to capture video in mobile and remote sources, and encoding the video and transmitting it from remote or mobile locations. Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are being utilized globally on the battlefield, in support of counter terrorism efforts, and for humanitarian relief efforts. In addition, they have become widely used within the United States to support federal, state, and local law enforcement efforts.

Solutions to support the capture of full motion video from UAS, other unmanned vehicles, and stationary sources have rapidly improved. High quality video sources are now available via broadcast and specialized network connections to ensure the timely and secure transmission of video from the source to destination. Advances in video tagging, search, and knowledge management allows analysts and decision makers to quickly and more fully analyze captured video to find targets of value and provide actionable intelligence in real-time.

Benefits agencies can achieve from full motion video solutions include:

  • Enhanced search
  • Improved operational performance
  • Increased security
  • Reduced costs

Merlin International®’s full motion video solutions provide a powerful imagery medium that supports critical capabilities for war fighters to more effectively accomplish their missions and more quickly extract relevant intelligence information. Captured by UAS, ground mobile platforms and fixed-persistent surveillance systems, full motion video has become an extremely powerful and useful tool in the area of remote sensing. Merlin’s full motion video solutions involve real-time, or near real-time, video feeds transmitted from video cameras onboard aircraft via direct line-of-sight or satellite to users and provides:

  • A full motion video architecture
  • Video source
  • Encoding, streaming and recasting platforms
  • Playback applications/integrated appliances
  • Archiving
  • Media asset management
  • Video manipulation/enhancement
  • Storage
  • FMV compliant with Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB)
  • Improved awareness by command and control systems
  • A significant new dimension in image analysis
  • The ability to view the three dimensions of still imagery
  • The capability to observe movement and change over time of a target around the clock
  • Command elements with actionable intelligence
  • The ability to get full motion video to and from the war fighter across a range of bandwidth-constrained networks
  • The capacity to index video for rapid searches and analysis
  • An effective design so that the full motion video architecture scales with an organization’s needs
  • Instant-replay capabilities
  • The ability for operators to monitor and tag multiple video feeds from sites worldwide
  • An easy search and retrieval mechanism
  • Online and offline processing of video to enhance quality, resulting in better overall analysis