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.
The BAE Systems team reiterated that the annual user conference gives us an opportunity to demonstrate current functionality, gather user feedback, and document customers’ needs. We understand that requirements frequently change from one year to the next. Therefore, we aim to continually enhance GXP products. Our goal is to provide a suite of integrated tools that work well as an enterprise solution and minimize O&M and training costs.
For SOCET SET users interested in learning more about how to transition from SOCET SET to SOCET GXP, and what to look forward to in the forthcoming SOCET GXP v3.2 release in late 2010, the GXP customer support team offered many details, such as:
- Working with SOCET SET files
- Frame import: Exterior orientation parameter import, camera calibration, interior orientation, and block adjustment tool
- Simple terrain registration
- Imagery, sensors, terrain and feature data formats supported
- Recommended and supported hardware configurations and operating systems
- SOCET GXP preferences
- Loading, viewing, and manipulating imagery within SOCET GXP
- Importing data into SOCET GXP
- Triangulation in SOCET GXP
- Control Point Editor in SOCET GXP
- Ortho On-the-Fly™
- Ortho Manager in SOCET GXP
- Pan-sharpening in SOCET GXP
