El Segundo, CA -- Geosemble Technologies, Inc., has won a contract from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research to automatically extract and fuse information from maps with satellite imagery. Under the phase I STTR contract, Geosemble Technologies in collaboration with the University of Southern California, will build upon established work to develop an approach to finding, registering, and extracting both textures and text from maps to support imagery analysis. Key applications for the map-fusion technology include allowing users to automatically locate online maps, automatically align the maps with satellite imagery, and automatically extract the information contained in maps, such as the transportation networks, hydrographic layers, and the textual labels on the information. The resulting technology will allow a user to view a satellite image for any place in the world, automatically find and align the maps covering that region, and then overlay selected layers from the map to better understand the information shown in an image. Users include military decision makers faced with vast amounts of map data and an insufficient number of intelligence analysts, as well as commercial market users in the real estate industry, the oil and gas industry, highway transportation, geological surveying, and other consumers of maps.

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