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Military Video Surveillance Software To Launch Commercially, Following Civilian Drone Market

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, July 17th, 2014

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Military Video Surveillance Software To Launch Commercially, Following Civilian Drone Market

Video shot by the Air Force is corrected in real time. Photo: MotionDSP.

Software first used by the Air Force to correct and stabilize wide-area surveillance video will now be released commercially as the civilian use of drones and satellite video expands, MotionDSP, Inc., the firm behind the software, said this week. Ikena WAMI (wide-area motion imagery) uses algorithms to automatically enhance the clarity of blurred video streaming from aircraft, drones or satellites. The automatic process previously took groups of squinting analysts hours to manually review and process, said MotionDSP’s founder and CEO…

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