Technology Demonstration Day: Monday, October 22, 2007

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Get up-close and personal with some of the most important technologies for border management. Learn first-hand how to leverage cutting-edge developments to achieve your security and information sharing requirements. Each hour-long slot features expert session leaders presenting and demonstrating their cutting-edge technology in a classroom setting.

8:00 am – 9:00 am Overview of Thermal Imaging and Electro-Optical Systems for Border Surveillance

This is a unique opportunity to learn about and use thermal imaging and multi-sensor e-o systems for a variety of operational environments. The session will start with a brief overview of thermal cameras and an introduction to the value of sophisticated network control architectures which greatly ease the integration and operation of sensor networks. The session concludes with a hands-on opportunity to view and control a variety of thermal cameras and multi-sensor systems, including those with both traditional video and digital MPEG systems.

Session Leader:

Dwight Dumpert
Business Development Manager, FLIR Systems, Inc.,
COMMERCIAL VISION SYSTEMS

9:00 am – 10:00 am Automated Scene Understanding for Border and Perimeter Protection

How can you provide real-time situational awareness with minimal operator oversight? Learn how Automated Scene Understanding can detect and track vehicles, estimate vehicle lengths, fuse tracks, learn normal behavior patterns, and generate alerts for anomalous, suspicious, illegal, and unsafe activities. Discover how automated, self-learned normalcy models and anomaly alerting tools can be used to track land-based targets and land border behaviors. Attendees will gain an understanding of how video and radar exploitation processing, automated sensor resource management and fusion components work together as a system to increase situational awareness.

Session Leader:

Stuart Peskoe
Director, Intelligence Programs
BAE SYSTEMS ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

10:00 am – 11:00 am Multi-Layered Fusion Systems for Border Security Operators

The last thing you want for a lone security operator working the midnight shift is for that person to be distracted by false alarms and multiple readings of the same intrusion. What you need is a system smart enough to determine what is and isn’t a threat. Learn how integrated multi-sensor fusion applications can provide user-determined, rules-based system operation that reduces false and nuisance alarm rates and increases probability of detection. In the demo, you will witness how an intrusion is seen by multiple sensors and then, if determined a threat, represented to the operator as a single target.

Session Leader:

Mr. Gadi Lenz,
Chief Technology Officer
4D SECURITY

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Making Communications Work Along the Borders, via Satellite

It has historically been difficult to have full radio or cellular coverage along the borders, often leaving officers trapped in radio silence. The solution is a satellite, 2-way radio/telephone which provides ubiquitous, nationwide coverage immune from terrestrial congestion or destruction. See how MSV’s MSAT G2 radio/telephone is interoperable with other Push-to-Talk technologies such as LMR and iDEN. Find out how you can access your own PTT talkgroup from any telephone in the world. This session will be exclusively dedicated to showing and demonstrating how satellite radio solves coverage and interoperability problems along the borders. If you want to communicate along the border, you need to see this demonstration.

Session Leader:

Jim Corry
Vice President
Government Solutions - Mobile Satellite Ventures

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Leveraging Enterprise Data for Border Security

How do you act on the mountains of virtual data disparately located between a diverse group of border security stakeholders? It is a daunting task to extract specific data and enable a montage of knowledge that is desperately needed to secure borders and satisfy preparedness requirements. Learn how to bring together fragmented data from a multitude of sources to perform broadbased analysis to create applicable knowledge. Find out how to make that data easily available to front line operators, so that they are empowered to make better, faster decisions.

Session Leader:

Marc Chernoff
Senior Architect, Government Solutions,
TERADATA

Lunch will be served

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Unmanned Camera and Monitoring Solutions Using Commercial Off-The-Shelf Technology (COTS)

The private industrial sector has recently enjoyed a flurry of technological innovations used for machine vision and image processing. This session will focus on the current state of technology for COTS products and how they may be used for border management applications. Live demonstrations of each of these technologies will be presented as well as an open discussion of their limitations. Attendees of this demonstration will analyze:

• Ultra-lowlight camera technology (EMCDD), color, digital and high resolution
• The utilization of FPGAs to performreal-time, alpha-blending of separate IR and visible video streams
• The current state of object/target tracking using smart cameras and standard CPUs

Session Leader:

Ruben Uribe
President
PHYSIMETRICS

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Real World, Real Time, High Definition (HD) Broadcasting For Border Management

Session Leader:
Jeff Hopkins
VP/CTO
Troll Systems