AI to be Applied to Upgrade Performance

South Korea’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has developed a new technology designed to improve the precision-strike capabilities of guided weapons in hard-to-reach and/or inaccessible target areas.

The ADD said in an 8 February statement that its ‘3D Target Extraction & Matching’ technology, which was developed between 2017-2021, applies image processing techniques to commercially-available satellite and aerial images to generate three-dimensional topographical and structural data of a target area. This creates a database that allows a weapon operator to rapidly extract target information, including location data.

The new system, which can also run “target-matching simulations” on a map to verify the quality of the acquired data, can help operators generate target data more quickly as they would not have to do this manually, noted the agency.

The ADD said it plans to upgrade the performance of the new system by applying artificial intelligence features.

Gabriel Dominguez in Singapore for MON