Introduction to Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)
Understanding ISR
Riverside Research Institute (RRI) offers a classified course that introduces current and future sensors used for ISR. These sensors include traditional imaging sensors in the visible, infrared and radar, spectral and polarimetric imaging sensors, and persistent surveillance sensors in the visible and infrared. NOT included are SIGINT sensors or non-electromagnetic sensors, such as seismic.
Who should attend?
Program managers, collection managers, technologists, and analysts in both the Federal and the industrial sectors are encouraged to attend.
What you will learn
Students will spend one day surveying the electromagnetic spectrum, platforms, applications, visible and infrared sensor data collection techniques, radar collection techniques, and other technical issues. In the remaining two days, each of the sensor types listed above will be explored in terms of current sensors grouped by altitude, regime, capabilities and applications, TCPED (Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Distribution) agencies, sensor trends, and planned future systems.
Instructors:
Dr. James Lange
Dr. Lange is an Adjunct Associate professor of Physics in the Department of Engineering Physics at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). He currently has been teaching in AFIT's Advanced Geospatial Intelligence Certificate Program. He has over 35 years of professional experience involving remote sensing techniques, sensors, and data analysis and exploitation. These sensing applications include surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting from various airborne and satellite platforms using sensors in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared, utilizing passive and active techniques. His most recent efforts have emphasized multispectral and hyperspectral sensing techniques in the visible through thermal infrared as well as broadband thermal and polarimetric imaging techniques. Activities have included mission requirement evaluation, investigations for initial sensor feasibility assessment, sensor design, algorithm evaluation, data analysis, sensor end-to-end performance prediction as well as the preparation and presentation of advocacy and training materials. He has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses for over 11 years, advised 32 MS theses in the above areas, developed 7 new courses, and helped develop two new academic programs. For the new courses, he has developed and distributed complete lecture notes in absence of any suitable textbook. BS, Engineering Physics, University of Illinois, MS and PhD, Physics, University of Wisconsin.
Clearance:
Secret or Top Secret/SCI (for a slightly more complete picture of current activities)
Duration:
3 days
Price:
$1195
Location:
Dayton, OH, Washington DC, Hunstville, AL, or at your facility
