A visual wikipedia for satellite imagery

Randy S. Roberts, John W. Goforth, George F. Weinert, Will R. Ray, Charles W. Grant, Art G. Jolly

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Abstract

GeoVisipedia (Geospatial Visual Wikipedia) is a new and novel approach to sharing knowledge about complex geospatial entities such as facilities. Facilities are composed of interconnected objects such as buildings, chemical processing units, electrical generation equipment and similar structures. Satellite imagery of a facility reveals a great deal about the organization and visual appearance of objects in a facility, but very little about the identity or function of the object. For example, given a satellite imagery of an oil refinery, an expert in refining readily identifies distillation units and can explain how they work. A non-expert would have a very difficult time identifying these objects let alone explaining how they function. To make highly complex information accessible to non-experts, GeoVisipedia associates a wiki page with objects in satellite imagery. A user selects an object in the image and a wiki page appears that provides the user with detailed information about the object. Experts can author information into the wiki and this information is shared with other users. Additionally, GeoVisipedia automatically transfers all wiki pages from one image of a facility to other imagery of the facility. Consequentially, knowledge about objects in the facility integrates over time as new imagery becomes available and as new wiki pages are created and additional information is added to existing wiki pages. In this respect, satellite imagery becomes a portal to expert knowledge and insight about objects in a facility.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOptics and Photonics for Information Processing XII
EditorsKhan M. Iftekharuddin, Victor H. Diaz-Ramirez, Mireya Garcia Vazquez, Abdul A. S. Awwal, Andres Marquez
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Print)9781510620735
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
EventOptics and Photonics for Information Processing XII 2018 - San Diego, United States
Duration: Aug 19 2018Aug 20 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume10751
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceOptics and Photonics for Information Processing XII 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period08/19/1808/20/18

Funding

Send correspondence to Randy S. Roberts: [email protected] This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. LLNL-CONF-54750.

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