Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
Description
Airship is an enterprise video management platform used to manage, secure, store, and analyze video surveillance obtained through criminal investigations. The airship platform includes AI-based capabilities for optical character recognition (OCR) for car license plates, airplane tail numbers, etc. and object detection with customizable near-real time alerts.
Detailed example
Bounding boxes for video frames and metadata regarding the detected object characteristics, alphanumeric digitized text from OCR
AI / analytics pattern
Computer Vision: AI that processes and interprets visual data (e.g., images and videos).
Automation level / stage
c) Deployed – The use case is being actively authorized or utilized to support the functions or mission of an agency.
Expected benefit
AI features help to support agent monitoring of surveillance video streams to ensure rapid notifications when predefined events occur that are pertinent to a criminal investigation.
Controls / human review
ATO: Yes; PIA: Not published
Data needed
The case owner relied on DOJ AI governance practices to select and prepare data, as well as evaluate performance.