Thales has developed new intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) concepts in both the land and air domains and demonstrated these at DSEI 2019 in London in September.
Digital Crew is a real-time self-learning artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm applied to digital electro-optical (EO) imagery for recognition of people, platforms, and objects. It is designed to reduce the cognitive load of sensor operators and is effective in day and night conditions.
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Pictured here is the Thales Mission@ISR concept demonstrator displayed at DSEI 2019. On the single curved screen from the top are: circular menu; mission data for two UAVs; two electro-optical sensor feeds; AIS track data; overhead imagery; and overall tactical picture.
The system incorporates facial recognition algorithms for identification of individuals using database comparison. It can recognise an individual in a crowd and identify possible threats such as an armed person through comparison with the entities in the database, with up to 1,000 objects stored within the latter.