WAMINet: An Open Source Library for Dynamic Geospace Analysis Using WAMI

Abstract

Modern military and commercial aerial platforms have the ability to capture imagery data over very large (kilometer wide) areas at moderate rates of 1-3 frames per second. This wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) captures the conditions and activity over a geospace, hence offering an opportunity to understand its wide-scale dynamics. This paper presents WAMINet, a library capable of ingesting large numbers of WAMI frames to build a network representation of the dynamics of the geospace being studied. It discusses the approach WAMINet uses to build the network representation, the component based design of the architecture, and illustrates its WAMI processing capabilities. Prototype versions of WAMINet and its code are available for download.