Sensing Systems granted SBIR Phase II for UAV media control

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used more and more in military and homeland security missions, and companies supporting UAVs and their missions do well. San Mateo, California-based Sensing Systems has been granted a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II Enhancement option to continue work under SBIR topic N02-159, Digital Motion Imagery (MI) Manipulation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Sensing will receive an additional $500,000 to integrate Tungsten, Sensing’s digital media management software, into the Tactical Control Station (TCS), which will be a part of the Littoral Combat System (LCS). Tungsten is used to replace old analog media technology and modernize U.S. Navy UAV control stations. Sensing’s innovative software system improves real-time performance and provides a framework for applying advanced image processing and high-level computer vision capabilities such as image mosaicing and feature tracking. Sensing’s software design allows for simplified integration into existing systems, and promises to accelerate the transition from analog to digital media management systems.

Tungsten is digital media management software providing a C++ application programmer’s interface (API) which supports many digital media services such as acquisition and archival of media from simultaneous, environment-specific sources; real-time and archived media review services; advanced media processing, and more.

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