This artwork is a digital collage focusing on remote sensing. An image base was designed from a synthesis of satellite multispectral, airborne hyperspectral and ground based Laser Radar sensors information. Research for this work involved designing a new color coding scheme for LADAR imaging analysis and commissioning three sensor data sets: a Landsat 7 satellite, multispectral view of the Chesapeake Bay area where the Laboratory is based; an airborne hyperspectral view of the laboratory; and a ground base L.A.D.A.R. 3D data set of the Zhal Laboratory building. The coloring of the satellite view which dominates the background was initially based on a spectral cast produced by an interferometer but has, for dramatic effect, undergone a free-form distortion caused by a series of digital filtering techniques. The helicopter featured is the Comanche helicopter.

Farsight and Data Command: About the Project

This project consists of two large scale digital prints: Farsight and Data Command. Both were printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper using the LightJet 5000 Wide-Format Printer. Each of the two artworks comprises six 96 x 48 inch panels. The overall finished size of each work is 96 x 240 inches. The sixth panel sits in front of the other five which are hung adjacent to each other. All the print panels are front mounted to Plexiglass.

This project was commissioned to create site-specific digital art for The Sensors and Electronic Devices Directorate (S.E.D.D.) at The U.S. Army Research Laboratories (A.R.L.) in Adelphi, Maryland.

This intensive project was developed over two years. The project had many phases and required extensive scientific investigation, field trips, meetings and specialist interviews at A.R.L. and M.I.T., along with the development of reports on specific technical research and content. Many personnel from A.R.L., in addition to those who participated in the research, were present at the concept and design review sessions. It was important for the artworks to work as both art and educational support to complex scientific investigation and development since the intended audience was a mixture of scientists, administrators, ranking military and the general public. A number of artworks were development and Farsight and Data Command were the final two selected.