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Defense

Iatia's QPI provides passive and covert depth imaging for defense and homeland security applications.

Passive ranging

By utilising available light or heat signatures, Iatia's technology is able to generate target ranging information passively and covertly without the expense and power requirements of active systems such as lasers.

Shape detection (camouflage negation)

QPI is capable of detecting the shape of camouflaged objects independent of their color or brightness contrast.

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Other applications

Potential exists for other defense related applications of QPI:
  • Imaging further in turbid media
  • Enhanced discrimination for surveillance and face recognition
  • Adding 3-D context to thermal and low-light imaging
  • Camera/image aberration correction

Current contracts

Iatia won an Australian Department of Defense, Defense Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) Capability Technology Demonstrator (CTD) contract in June 2005 for up to $2.7 million over 3 years to transfer its unique imaging capability to defense related applications.

Puckapunyal defense trials
Iatia's Brendan Allman, Alaster Meehan and Gavin Gregson testing the first field model long range (70m to 1.4km) camera at Puckapunyal in 2007. A handheld version is currently under development.

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About the CTD contract
In late June 2005, Iatia signed a $2,700,000 contract with the Defence Department’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). This Capability and Technology Demonstrator (CTD) contract is the largest announced by the Department under that round of CTD activities. Defence represents a new field of application for Iatia’s unique imaging technology. It utilises conventional digital imaging capability, and produces a new image based on shape information alone that is independent of the image provided by colour and contrast. This image is then suitable for further processing by conventional image enhancement, image-processing and image-recognition software. The potential uses include passive ranging, shape imaging, defeating camouflage, and in developing novel image processing algorithms. Iatia is now developing a reflection-based algorithm suitable for extending shape imaging to greater distances.



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