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.
Topics included the SOCET GXP menu structure, frequently used tools, typical workflows, and the fundamental concepts required to quickly create accurate image and map products. Customer support engineers used recent and historic satellite imagery of Haiti to illustrate how to use SOCET GXP’s numerous image exploitation and geospatial analysis tools to identify changes in images over time, extract features, build templates, create orthorectified products, work with terrain files, and share and disseminate final products.
Boot Camp highlights
- Software demonstrations offered a glimpse into core features:
- User preferences: standardize finished products
- Templates: use templates to create products; add autolabels, snapshot products to PowerPoint®, and save products as GeoPDF® files
- Toolbox tab: add graphics, markers, and annotate images
- Pan sharpening: create a high-resolution image from a multispectral and panchromatic image
- Image registration: automated triangulation and Quick Align tools
- Ortho On-the-Fly™ tool: quick, push-button way to create an orthorectified image
- Spatially Enabled Exploitation (SEE) build feature databases and style sheets
- Finishing Tool: create products to satisfy any operational need
- Flip Tool : view and select adjacent or overlapping annotations in a feature database or Multiport
- Results List: display query results
- Xport: specialized Multiport™ with a palette of up to 16 preview panels
- Ortho Manager: series of tabs to guide you through a correct worklow
- Job service: monitor processes and progress for SOCET GXP functions
- Create true orthophoto: correct building lean to position buildings in their exact geographic location
- Working with terrain: strategies to create and edit digital terrain files; use terrain-shaded relief to check terrain quality
- Flythrough tools: use orbit path for 360-degree terrain viewing
- Terrain editing tools: merge, new, and transform
- Google Earth™: synchronize SOCET GXP with Google Earth in real time; export image footprints and feature graphics
- Visual Coverage Tool: manage and organize data located on local or network drives, soon to be replaced by the new GXP Xplorer™ tool, which offers expanded capabilities
