Digital image technology - MC&G impact

The Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace Center has developed a program to exploit digital image technology for the advancement of mapping, charting, and geodesy. Primary studies include image processing, analysis, and display techniques, and computer image generation. State-of-the-art digital image technology concepts have had a dramatic influence on the ability to analyze various digital data bases produced by the Defense Mapping Agency. In addition, emerging technologies in image processing and digital image analysis for automated feature extraction are demonstrating the potential for significant improvement in the utilization of imagery and significant reduction of production costs. Analyses of Landsat images and Viking Mars images are considered as examples.