Managing Video in a One Frame per Second Environment

There is a vast and growing need within government agencies to collect, manage, analyze/exploit and disseminate video assets for the purposes of national security, battlefield intelligence, briefings and public communications. However, the infrastructures, workflows and exploitation tools available for video still fall short of intelligence analyst's needs to achieve optimum performance. Video at 30fps (Thirty Frames Per Second) provides a much greater challenge as apposed to the current paradigm of using or exploiting, 1fps (One Frame Per Second) images or photographs. When you add video to an already complex problem. sheer volume of data, number ofvideo formats to ingest and exploit, and a need to fuse imagery assets with video - the overall workflow processes must be improved. This paper examines the workflow processes and technologies that can merge these two worlds together allowing the intelligence community to leverage available assets and make better decisions.