IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards

Session

[TEC] Collection, Processing and Analysis of Satellite and Open Source Imagery Data

8 Nov 2018, 09:00

M Building (Vienna International Centre)

360. Change Detection Method for Radar Images – An Overview of Promising Methods

Ishuwa Sikaneta (IAEA)

Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)

Roundtable Member

Change-detection with a pair of radar images can indicate subtle change, for example, it can reveal tracks of disturbed earth that can be associated with vehicle movements across unpaved roads in the period between collection of the two images. Identifying changes of interest in radar imagery is challenging, and thus difficult to automate, because these changes of interest must be separated...

32. Change Detection Using Sentinel-1 Synthetic-aperture Radar on the Google Earth Engine Platform

Dr Morton J. Canty (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (retired))

Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)

Roundtable Member

The European Commission’s Copernicus mission regularly releases SAR data from the Sentinel -1 satellites. These data have proven valuable for nuclear non-proliferation verification activities by offering analyst s medium resolution datasets for site monitoring at no cost. This paper describes a change detection algorithm based on an omnibus likelihood ratio test statistic for the equality of...

189. Detection via Persistence: Leveraging Commercial Imagery from Small Satellites

Risa Haddal (Sandia National Laboratories)

Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)

Roundtable Member

Sandia National Laboratories and BlackSky Geospatial Solutions Inc. are engaged in an exploratory effort to examine how the capabilities emerging in the small satellite industry, combined with the unique nonproliferation and analytical capabilities at a U.S. national laboratory, can improve remote proliferation detection (PD) and other fields such as safeguards. The effort seeks to leverage...

257. Exploitation of high frequency acquisition of imagery from satellite constellations within a semi-automated change detection framework for IAEA safeguards purposes

Prof. Timothy Warner (West Virginia University)

Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)

Roundtable Member

The development of constellations of small satellites that offer not just daily imaging, but possibly tens of images per day for any site, has the potential to fundamentally change the monitoring of nuclear fuel cycle related sites using remote sensing. Many organizations are currently building such constellations of satellites, including Planet, BlackSky and Earth-i. These constellations are...

64. Integrating Visual Data into Safeguards Implementation and the State Evaluation Process

Ms Yana Feldman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)

Roundtable Member

To implement state‐level safeguards effectively, the IAEA Department of Safeguards seeks to obtain and make use of all safeguards‐relevant information available about each state. This requires going beyond textual information to incorporate different forms of media that potentially contain safeguards‐relevant content. This may include static images, such as photographs, schematics, or...

165. Leveraging Computer Vision for Imagery Analytics

Catherine Dill (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey)

Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)

Roundtable Member

This paper will explore the potential applications and limits of computer vision for analyzing satellite imagery and ground imagery for safeguards purposes. The paper will first detail the current state of the art as it relates to computer vision for three main tasks related to ground and satellite imagery analysis: land classification, change detection, and object identification. The paper...

305. Safeguards and Multimedia Data: Appraisal of New Techniques

Mr Lorand Bodo (Ridgeway Information)

Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)

Roundtable Member

Open Source information plays an important role in International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verification activities. The IAEA's organisational capacity for monitoring textual data is already highly developed. In contrast, the burgeoning category of accessible, digital data in multimedia formats, such as pictures, video and audio files, has presented a more challenging target for efficient...