Information Exploitation

Mission

The Mission of Information Exploitation area is to be an innovative technical solutions leader for collecting and exploiting multi-source data to provide purposeful and actionable information to the national intelligence, defense and commercial communities. The group is a technical leader in standoff chemical and biological defense.

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Core Competencies

Core competencies include development of sensor systems based on a strong phenomenological understanding of signature generation and vertically integrated sensors. This includes the collection of all source data with a specialization in MASINT data types and the processing of data through classical statistical methods, knowledge based systems and data fusion techniques to transform data into purposeful information.

Current Research Thrusts Include:

• Chemical Plume Mapping

- Sponsor: Army, Dugway Proving Grounds

- Objectives: Develop a sensor constellation to track and detect chemical agents and determine size, location and concentration of chemical plumes.


• Frequency Agile LIDAR for Chemical Biological Agent Detection

- Sponsor: Army, Aberdeen Proving Grounds

- Objectives: Develop a frequency agile LIDAR system.


• Detection of CWA Liquids on Surfaces

- Sponsor: Army, Dugway Proving Grounds

- Objectives: Real-time stand off detection of Chemical Warfare Agents and detection of liquid films and droplets on surfaces using polarized LWIR hyperspectral sensors.


• Space Based Imagery Applications

- Sponsor: AFRL

- Objectives: Develop a software tool applying statistically based algorithms for detection of spectrally structured targets for unsupervised analysis of hyperspectral imagery.



Area Leadership

Dr. William Marinelli

The Information Exploitation Area is led by Dr. William Marinelli who is also the Executive Vice President of Defense Systems at PSI. Since joining PSI in 1983, Dr. Marinelli has been involved as a scientist and program manager in a diverse range of technical areas. He has made numerous contributions in the fields of chemical kinetics (chemical lasers, atmospheric chemistry, and air breathing propulsion), gas-surface interactions (atomic oxygen energy accommodation, shuttle glow phenomenon, plasma processing), space physics (advanced solar cells for space power, inflatable optics), and advanced diagnostics (high power lasers, hypersonic flow visualization, metastable reactive species, hyperspectral terrain and chemical imaging, LIDAR transmitter and receiver technology, electroactive polymers).

William J. Marinelli Physical Sciences Inc. 20 New England Business Center Andover, MA 01810-1077 Telephone: (978) 689-0003 Fax: (978) 689-3232 marinelli@psicorp.com

 

 

Information Exploitation Publications Information Exploitation Presentations		Adaptive Infrared Imaging Spectroradiometer (AIRIS) Case Study Adaptive Infrared Imaging Spectroradiometer (AIRIS) Adaptive Infrared Imaging System Facilities In-House Optical Sensor Calibration Facilities