NASA - Talk to an expert about a new crime fighting tool based on NASA technology - Marshall Space Flight Center Satellite Interview 03-110 (07-03-03)

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For release: 07/03/03
Satellite release #: 03-110

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NASA'S 'INVENTION OF THE YEAR' FIGHTS CRIME; TECHNOLOGY FROM SPACE PROGRAM PUTS LAWBREAKERS BEHIND BARS

It started out as a way to study the Sun and weather systems. Through some dramatic turns, it became a valuable law enforcement tool and NASA's "Commercial Invention of the Year."
VISAR, or Video Image Stabilization and Registration, has been used to assist law enforcement in dozens of criminal cases.
And it was even used to verify an image of Saddam Hussein earlier this year.
VISAR can stabilize and enhance video, brighten dark images and enlarge small sections of pictures to reveal clues about crimes.
The computer software is now available in a product for law enforcement offered by Intergraph Corp. of Huntsville, Ala., in its Video Analyst workstation product.
VISAR -- another technology developed in the space program and now improving life on Earth with further applications for engineering, medicine and video editing.
Talk to one of VISAR's inventors about this NASA success story.

Who:

Dr. David Hathaway, solar physicist
Paul Meyer, atmospheric physicist
Marshall Space Flight Center

Satellite coordinates:

GE-2, Transponder 9C,
85 degrees west longitude,
Frequency: 3880 MHz, audio: 6.8 MHz.

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Jack Robertson (256) 544-1517

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Jerry Berg, Media Relations
(256) 544-0034

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