BAE Systems GXP®
Regional User Conference
Europe, Middle East, and Africa

The conference continued on Wednesday with a full lineup of GXP® product workshops, and Professional Exchange sessions, featuring customer presentations. Dr. A. Stewart Walker hosted a series of discussions focused on BAE Systems' latest research, development, and cutting-edge technologies including:

• The development, manufacture, and payloads of small UAVs
• Full-motion video wide area persistent ISR
• the ARGUS way
• Airborne Wide Area Persistent Surveillance Sensor (AWAPSS)
• TxtReveal: Leveraging GIS, AI, and document analysis tools to create new intelligence
• Analyzing WorldView-1 accuracy with SOCET SET and Metric Information Network (MIN) technology
• Accurately mapping imagery onto surfaces: Summary of research and algorithms
• Using Spatially Coherent Classification to extract features: Summary of research and algorithms
• From where to what: Image understanding through 3-D geometric shapes
• Geometric SAR and LIDAR sensor models in SOCET GXP® and SOCET SET®

A hot topic at the conference this year – and an area gaining development focus for BAE Systems – is full-motion video. GXP product specialists demonstrated current and forthcoming video analysis capabilities. Video data has become more widely available and an integral part of the geospatial-intelligence landscape. Conference attendees shared their real-world workflow scenarios, which will assist BAE Systems in understanding customer requirements for future enhancements.

GXP Xplorer Desktop

Dan London, GXP® vice president of sales, marketing, and support, kicked off the 2010 BAE Systems GXP International User Conference and Professional Exchange, welcoming a crowd of nearly 300. Dan discussed the new GXP training centers opened in 2009 to provide free training for all current GXP software customers, as well as supplementary on-site support for large military operations. He also was thrilled to report that based on input from last year's conference, and additional feedback received throughout the year, BAE Systems is poised to launch GXP Xplorer™, the Visual Coverage Tool (VCT) replacement with an expanded feature set. GXP Xplorer makes it easy to find and share geospatial data on a local network and across an enterprise. The application is ideal for users in work groups who are searching for images, terrain, features, videos, documents, and other files.

Jeff Allen, GXP general manager, continued with an overview of briefings scheduled for the week, including keynote speeches from distinguished industry colleagues, new GXP products on the horizon for forthcoming releases, and a variety of customer presentations.

On Monday, April 19,160 GXP User Conference attendees participated in SOCET GXP® Boot Camp at the conference venue, Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, in San Diego. This optional, pre-conference orientation covered core functionality of the SOCET GXP operating environment. BAE Systems’ customer support and training teams hosted SOCET GXP Boot Camp, which will enable users to have a richer educational experience for the duration of the conference.