Please note: the conference program is undergoing development and is subject to change.
Last updated April 9, 2010.
Working in the ESRI environment
The goal of this Professional Exchange is to show the numerous ways SOCET GXP and SOCET SET work with ESRI products and formats. Topics discussed will depend on the audience’s interests. However, topics may include SOCET SET and SOCET GXP workflows with ESRI; SOCET for ArcGIS performance; Spatially Enabled Exploitation performance, implementation of multi-user databases in workflows, integration of SOCET GXP v3.2 and v4.0 with ESRI and ArcGIS 10, and GXP products. The session includes a presentation by Gerry Kinn from ESRI’s Imagery Team.
Chairs: Rob Cline, Michael Money, Bill Smith
Incubating excellence: Geospatial intelligence in the Southwest
Chair: Mark Sarojak
SOCET Services: Emerging enterprise solutions from GXP
Enterprise solutions? Web services? Browser clients? Cloud computing? Find out what GXP is doing to develop and transform the latest enterprise technologies into emerging GXP products, and how you can benefit. The presentation includes Web Publishing Service, Raster Product Format Generation Service, Ortho Service, Metric Information Network Service, and further possibilities. We value your feedback and ideas.
Chairs: Janis McArthur, Dave Miller
Cutting-edge technologies from BAE Systems
GXP is part of a large global corporation. Many parts of this organization are working on projects in areas adjacent to GXP’s activities. This Professional Exchange is aimed at bringing to the attention of the GXP customer base some of the most exciting of these developments. The first presentation describes the small UAVs designed and manufactured at a BAE Systems plant in Tucson, AZ. The second and third cover extremely high-performance sensors from two BAE Systems locations on the east coast. The fourth comes from Detica, a BAE Systems U.K.-based subsidiary that produces leading computer search technology used by warfighters, security agencies, law enforcement, and other customers in several countries.
Chair: Stewart Walker
GXP training
In this Professional Exchange participants see how GXP training offerings are expanding and adapting to customers’ needs. Learn where GXP’s new training centers are located and what courses are being taught. Discover how GXP’s customers, both outside and inside BAE Systems, are conducting tradecraft training using SOCET GXP. This is also your chance to let us know what other training courses you would like to see in the future!
Chair: Nikki Spirakis
SOCET GXP v3.2 and v4.0: 3-D visualization, feature collection, and building modeling
This workshop demonstrates plans for 3-D visualization, feature collection, and 3-D modeling in SOCET GXP v3.2 and v4.0. SOCET GXP v3.2 will offer improved 3-D visualization capabilities to handle extremely dense terrain generated from NGATE or imported from LIDAR. SOCET GXP v4.0 will offer feature extraction, 3-D modeling and further 3-D visualization improvements. An open discussion on technology and requirements is encouraged. Our goal is to develop software that works well with third-party tools and is relevant for future 3-D modeling and visualization needs.
Chairs: Dave Chittim, Steve Foster, Shannon Holland, Claire Scofield
Ensuring geospatially accurate analysis in a multi-sensor environment (classified)
When integrating analysis from multiple sensors it is imperative that coordinate accuracy be maintained from sensor to sensor. Attendees of this session are exposed to the inherent inaccuracies of working in a multi-sensor environment and learn how to use SOCET GXP tools to create accurate annotations that can be distributed to the end user. Presentations include the use of true orthophotos, triangulation, and integration of analysis into a geodatabase. Questions and requirements from the audience also will be addressed.
Chair: Nick Rosengarten
SOCET GXP and SAR: current capabilities and future requirements (classified)
This session begins with a brief demonstration showing native loading of SAR real and complex data into SOCET GXP. The objective is to discuss what capabilities customers require in the future. Topics include the impact of significant trends in the DoD’s use of SAR on SOCET GXP, such as exploitation of commercial satellite data and the NGA SICD/SIDD initiative.
Chairs: Chris McCullough, Bob Meyer, Nick Rosengarten
Updates on targeting with CGS and SOCET GXP (classified)
CGS updates, such as Multiple Technique Enhancement and T3D (Tasked Target Text Data) Input Enhancement, are demonstrated in this collaborative Professional Exchange. Plan on discussing current and future targeting requirements using SOCET GXP and CGS, and seeing presentations on how different branches of the armed services are implementing their own Point Positioning Programs. Targeting customers can communicate with one another on how they train and use SOCET GXP and CGS within their units, and give feedback to both GXP and CGS staff.
Chairs: Dennis Bryant, Erik Hajek, Rob Stout, Joe Wilson
Generating reference imagery from multiple sources (classified)
GXP welcomes Paul Basgall from NGA to discuss recent evaluations using the latest commercial data sources with SOCET SET v5.5. Instructors demonstrate the new import capability that replaces the USMSD for CIB and DPPDB production. Upon conclusion of the demo the floor is open for questions and the session transitions into discussions about how customers would like to move forward with these products into SOCET GXP. This Professional Exchange is designed to be interactive and audience participation is encouraged.
Chair: Mike Estes
VMTI and other FMV developments (classified)
This Professional Exchange is intended to be a dialog between the full-motion video (FMV) user community and GXP scientists and engineers who are bringing enhanced video capabilities into the workstation. Participation in this forum is an opportunity for participants to shape the scope and priorities of new software developments. Video analysis in SOCET GXP v3.1 includes a single video moving target indicator (VMTI) with continuous latitude and longitude display. Single frames can be exported to a SOCET GXP Multiport, with all of the exploitation power that entails. Video georegistration capability is currently being transitioned into video analysis functionality for a future release.
Chairs: Julia Adams, Diego Balcazar, Evan Miller, Rob Stout, Charles Taylor, Morgan Welch
Aspects of hyperspectral and multispectral processing in action (classified)
Description to follow.
Chair: Dan London
SOCET GXP: Trends in the commercial market
The presence of the Frame sensor model in SOCET GXP v3.2 and the forthcoming TIN capability scheduled for v4.0 mean that commercial customers can plan their transitions from SOCET SET. This Professional Exchange is an open forum for discussions on trends and issues affecting the commercial photogrammetric markets and the role of GXP products therein. Topics discussed depend on the audience’s interests, but could include:
- Color balancing large ortho-mosaics in SOCET GXP.
- 3-D feature and city modeling in SOCET GXP and interfaces with third-party software and formats.
- Working in the ESRI environment — current bottlenecks and future workflows.
- Terrain modeling — automatic extraction of terrain and buildings, TIN, and requirements to increase efficiency in workflows.
- Plans for triangulation of large blocks of imagery in SOCET GXP.
- LIDAR processing:
- Should it be addressed with more capabilities in SOCET GXP or are customers’ needs already served with other packages?
- Is there any merit to stereo-visualization of point clouds?
- Is there a need to have a true 3-D TIN capability to handle point clouds (a single XY location can have more than one point with different Z values)?
Chairs: Matt Falter, Brandon Gilhooly, Rick Mort
ce program is undergoing development and is subject to change.
Last updated April 9, 2010.
