Fugro EarthData and ESRI Canada have announced a strategic partnership and global distribution agreement that will allow Fugro EarthData to deliver PurView worldwide. PurView is a powerful stereoscopic image viewing and feature extraction extension for ESRI ArcGIS. Through its partnership with ESRI Canada, Fugro EarthData will offer PurVIEW as part of its exclusive GeoSAR mapping solution that delivers high-accuracy topographic mapping through clouds and dense vegetation. PurView transforms ArcGIS Desktop into a precise stereoviewing environment, where geodatabase feature objects can be superimposed with terrain data to reveal natural changes in data or mapping errors and omissions. The extension simplifies the process of extracting features and reduces the cost of editing data. It also eliminates the need for an external imaging engine or photogrammetric interface, as it interacts directly with the geodatabase, digital elevation models and georeferenced imagery data. By integrating stereoscopic viewing in ArcGIS, users can create a rich environment for various GIS applications, including environmental assessments, facility management and earth sciences. PurView is developed by I.S.M. International Systemap Corp. and marketed globally through ESRI Canada.
NGA Orders Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded three indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity multiple award contracts for commercial satellite synthetic aperture radar (COMSAR) imagery, data products and direct downlink services. Contracts were awarded to MDA Geospatial Services, EADS North America and Lockheed Martin Space Systems. Each contract includes a five-year ordering period with a maximum ceiling of $85 million. NGA, as the Department of Defense’s sole procurer of commercial remote sensing data, routinely procures commercial imagery from both domestic and foreign sources. NGA and its mission partners utilize COMSAR data for intelligence, military and homeland security applications. The contracts improve NGA’s ability to provide intelligence in low light and bad weather conditions.
Data Quality Tools Aid Visualization of Geospatial Information
Qbase has released a new specialized suite of data quality tools that allow transformation and visualization of geospatial information for business intelligence and decision-support. Qbase Data Transformer delivers capabilities that include the ability to integrate geospatial data from more than 200 different geo-coordinate systems to create a consistent format and utilize a single geo-coordinate reference. The userfriendly Qbase software also can ingest millions of different addresses in the United States and append one or more geospatial coordinates of the client’s choice. This feature allows users to add location information to its client database to identify important clusters and trends. Qbase Data Transformer can also be used to perform data analytics on geospatial data, including correlation analysis to identify location relationships to other variables or key performance indicators. Qbase Data Transformer accelerates the extraction, transformation and loading of data into hyperdrive. The software can be used on a stand-alone basis or easily integrate within other geospatial software, such as solutions that generate shapefiles to convey geospatial information. Shapefiles can spatially describe specific geometries that can represent bodies of water, for example, and have descriptors such as names or temperature readings.
Contract Supports Army Distributed Common Ground System
Overwatch, an operating unit of Textron Systems, has been awarded an Army contract for software development, training and support for the future intelligence framework. The Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract was awarded through the Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors, with a ceiling amount of $48.5 million over a period of five years. With this contract award, Overwatch will continue to develop and maintain the DCGS-Army Application Framework (DAF), the DAF Software Development Kit, and major system components such as the Tactical Entity Database, messaging/interoperability, and visualization/analysis tools.
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Software Improves Image Visualization and Detailed Analysis
BAE Systems has released the latest version of its geospatialintelligence software, SOCET GXP v3.1. New video analysis capabilities for SOCET GXP v3.1 give analysts a convenient way to work with video and transmit critical data and reports to decision-makers. The video analysis tool reads and displays live video feeds or saved video files from airborne sensors. It is geospatially enabled to provide a highly accurate resource for analyzing video and uses the real-world geographic information embedded in many UAS and UAV streams, such as country, region, city, postal code, latitude, longitude and time zone, to provide up-to-date intelligence data. The video analysis tool is integrated with Google Earth to provide sensor position, field of view and situational awareness for video footprints. BAE Systems’ Mantis UAV is now flying, and will use SOCET GXP in its ground station for exploiting still-imagery and full-motion video data sets. With a single click, users can capture still frames into the SOCET GXP Multiport analysis window. BAE Systems’ High Endurance Rapid Technology Insertion (HERTI) UAV team also is using SOCET GXP. The HERTI system captures, processes, and disseminates high-quality imagery. The SOCET GXP video analysis tool complements BAE Systems’ UAS global offering—a full-service solution integrating the air vehicle system, mission control system, and controlled infrastructure, focused on reducing cost and operator risk. Another new tool for SOCET GXP v3.1 is the Xport, a user-friendly image viewing tool designed for hyperspectral and multispectral image analysis.
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Technology Enables Web-Based Nodal Visibility of Supplies
GeoDecisions, an information technology company specializing in geospatial solutions, recently implemented its patented IRRIS technology to enable the U.S. Transportation Command to display and analyze Web-based nodal visibility of critical sustainment supplies to warfighters. Through visibility to the Node Management and Deployment Depot (NoMaDD), the flexibility in IRRIS makes it easily expandable to quickly display Web-based geospatial supply node management data. The capabilities in NoMaDD enable users to support multi-modal, multinodal, factory-to-foxhole tracking of mission-essential cargo through an intuitive Web-based interface. IRRIS standardizes the visual experience with 2525c military map symbols and operational navigational chart back-end mapping from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for a familiar, tactical look. Additionally, integrated data in IRRIS from five disparate government logistics systems provide a one-stop-shop for ideal interoperability.
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ISR Software Captures and Distributes Full- Motion Video
EchoStorm Worldwide, a provider of video and data management technology, has released adLib 3.6, the latest version of the company’s pioneering video and data management software for improved ISR. The new version boasts unmatched capabilities for capturing, indexing, archiving, searching, and disseminating full-motion video (FMV) and associated data. The software can process a range of data formats to give low bandwidth users access to low-fidelity, situational awareness FMV and high bandwidth users access to high-fidelity, exploitation FMV. The system’s new features include federation, enabling access to content within the enterprise and across enterprise borders; open standards (WS-I) compliant Web service interfaces allowing for third-party integration; and enhanced support for Motion Imagery Standards Board standards, including Standard 0601.3 UAS Datalink Local Metadata Set, Standard 0604 Time, and EG 0104.5 Predator UAV Basic Universal Metadata Set. It also provides support for a new UAV platform, the Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout. ♦
