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Summary and Conclusions<br />

Correlation of Chemical and Other Information<br />

We explored two approaches to quantitative threedimensional<br />

site modeling using three commercial, offthe-shelf<br />

software systems: two were optimized for<br />

computer aided design-based site geometric<br />

reconstruction, and one was optimed for hybrid, objectbased<br />

site virtual-reality representation and visualization.<br />

All require extensive manual intervention from the<br />

analyst, and the two geometry-based computer aided<br />

design systems further require precise knowledge of<br />

camera parameters, full-frame images, and substantial<br />

effort to create computer aided design objects<br />

representing the site. Geometric primitives used by the<br />

hybrid system are too limited for application to <strong>National</strong><br />

Technical Means facilities, and the entire system does not<br />

obviously support computer aided design-based featurebuilding<br />

in addition to the general geometric<br />

reconstruction for visualization purposes. This latter<br />

observation is preliminary, because the software is<br />

currently unavailable and testing was done with what may<br />

be an obsolete demonstration package. For the purposes<br />

of creating a three-dimensional computer aided design<br />

model of a weapons facility, none of these systems was a<br />

complete solution. However, by combining the two<br />

approaches with the mensuration capabilities innate in<br />

<strong>National</strong> Technical Means imagery, a basis can be<br />

hypothesized for object-based site modeling and<br />

functional characterization. Such a hybrid site modeling<br />

system, built on a hybrid geometry- and image-based<br />

approach derived from Debevec et al. (1996), augmented<br />

with geometry-based computer aided design-modeling<br />

capability and weapons-object relevant primitives<br />

hyperlinked to their physical-world counterparts for<br />

information-correlation purposes as discussed by Feiner<br />

et al. (1995), and geospatially controlled by the inherent<br />

<strong>National</strong> Technical Means mensuration capability, would<br />

become a valuable asset in the site functional analysis<br />

community.<br />

396 FY 2000 <strong>Laboratory</strong> Directed Research and Development Annual Report<br />

Ground-Truth Sensor Development and Demonstration<br />

We also developed and demonstrated an improved<br />

ground-truth chemical sensor, as well as the associated<br />

analysis software and graphical user interface for<br />

determining chemical identity. We obtained a<br />

commercial Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and<br />

evaluated it, the analysis software, and the graphical user<br />

interface for use in proliferation determination using<br />

passive infrared sensing in field tests at the OWL 2000<br />

initiative. The <strong>Laboratory</strong> team acquired data at the<br />

Nevada Test Site, and subsequently analyzed them using<br />

the new software system and graphical user interface.<br />

Results agreed well with known test conditions, with<br />

noted differences; the result of predictable and expected<br />

effects of variations between test conditions and geometry<br />

and assumed database conditions. The result of this<br />

software and hardware development and field evaluation<br />

was a robust ground-truth measurement system that will<br />

provide participation in and data from future community<br />

infrared-spectroscopy field-experiment campaigns.<br />

References<br />

Debevec PE. 1996. Modeling and Rendering<br />

Architecture from Photographs. Ph.D. Dissertation,<br />

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California,<br />

140 pp.<br />

Debevec PE, CJ Taylor, and J Malik. 1996. Modeling<br />

and Rendering Architecture from Photographs: A Hybrid<br />

Geometry- and Image-Based Approach. Technical<br />

Report UCB//CSD-96-893, Computer Science Division,<br />

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California,<br />

33 pp.<br />

Feiner SK, AC Webster, TE Krueger III, B MacIntyre,<br />

and EJ Keller. 1995. “Architectural Anatomy.”<br />

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 4(3):<br />

318-326.

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