Laboratory draws more data from photographs.

• Author: Foster, Sharon
• Position: Tech Talk

At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., researchers are pursuing solutions to quickly extract useful data from images from a single satellite photo.

"This initiative will help ensure that the rich variety of imagery data currently available from multiple sensor types can be translated into useful information," said Doug Lemon, who leads the lab's recently launched Imaging Science and Technology Initiative.

The initiative is focused on developing theories, methods and tools for fusing data from a wide range of...