Accurate, attractive orthorectified mosaics are a key deliverable in many mapping projects. Creating a beautiful mosaic with consistent, pleasing radiometry and invisible seamlines is a daunting challenge. BAE Systems has the answer.

OrthoVistaXtreme produces mosaics of the same remarkable quality as Stellacore’s legacy, market-leading OrthoVista^®, but at 21st century speed. With significantly faster performance and enhanced scalability, OrthoVistaXtreme offers top productivity and legendary quality, backed and supported by BAE Systems.

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GXP is attuned to your challenges and your needs. As a direct result from customer feedback regarding current budgetary and travel constraints, we have made the decision to postpone our GXP User Conference this year, and instead will be taking the show on the road.

Our GXP Roadshow will visit various key locations, customer sites, and tradeshows. We’ll be offering FREE, half-day and full-day training workshops to get you up to speed on the latest developments from GXP – from up-and-coming software releases to new product offerings.

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SOCET GXP v4.0 is now available with groundbreaking updates that save time, increase productivity, and create more accurate geospatial-intelligence. All of the tools you need are at your fingertips — orthorectification, triangulation, planimetric and volumetric feature extraction, 3-D interactive views, terrain and surface modeling, access to shared geospatial databases, and much more.

Learn more about SOCET GXP v4.0 >>

• Watch the video: Welcome to SOCET GXP v4.0
• SOCET GXP brochure
• Release enhancements

LiDAR point clouds of a power plant generated using SOCET GXP v4.0, displayed in the new 3-D Multiport viewer.

Users across multiple geospatial disciplines have embraced SOCET GXP’s comprehensive toolset — automated measuring, mapping and photogrammetry; 3-D visualization and in-depth analysis; unprecedented sensor-model support; and data fusion — for timely analysis and product creation. Integration with the Esri geodatabase, Google Earth, and TerraGo GeoPDF products extend its utility and the SOCET GXP Developer’s Toolkit enhances SOCET GXP functionality, which is appealing to third-party developers and systems integrators.

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From surveillance and reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, precision targeting, and mission planning, to 3-D site and city modeling, land use mapping, border surveillance, coastline monitoring, tracking glacier melt, illicit crop detection, and disaster relief assistance, SOCET GXP has everything you need to get the job done. It satisfies multiple project requirements while reducing training, support, operating and maintenance costs.

SOCET GXP v4.0 — join the XA revolution!

There’s never been a better time to migrate your workflows to SOCET GXP.

SOCET GXP v4.0 adds:

• 3-D site and building modeling with mesh modeling and 3-D perspective viewing
• Planimetric feature extraction with drawing toolbox and cue cards
• Advanced image processing algorithms for change detection, image classification, trend analysis, tracking patterns of activity over time, and finding anomalies in imagery
• Independent localization for straightforward translation
• Terrain and surface modeling with TIN support across the application
• LiDAR capabilities, including triangulation and automatic feature extraction that identifies certain 3-D objects within point clouds

SOCET GXP v4.0: Key enhancements at a glance

Visualization and feature extraction

• Planimetric and volumetric feature extraction including new drawing and edit tools, plus new Toolbox
• General 3-D improvements, including import and export support, and improved 3-D viewer
• Detailed generation of 3-D city models for visualization
• Semi-automatic and manual editing tools
• Integrated 3-D viewer
• Automatic attribution
• Automatic texture patching
• SketchUp integration
• SafeSoft FME integration
• TerraGo layered GeoPDF export
• 3-D PDF

Imagery

• Stereo Model Manager
• ADS40/80
• MSP 1.1.5
• Unclassified Community Sensor Models
• Virtual full image from segmented image sources
• SICD anamorphic correction
• JPIP performance including multi-threading
• Hyperspectral and multispectral
  • Scatter plot improvements
  • iCee atmospheric correction
  • Dark subtract
  • Xport improvements

Terrain

• Terrain and surface modeling
• HRE read/write support
• TIN
• Contour elevation labels
• 3-D viewer integration for TIN and grid terrain modeling and editing as well as LiDAR point clouds
• Extract buildings, houses, and trees with new LiDAR functionality that transforms a LiDAR or photogrammetrically derived point cloud into a bare-earth model

With the click of a button, customers can update their profiles; manage support requests and email preferences; request license keys and software; and search the technical knowledgebase for quick answers to outstanding issues.

We have invited GXP customers with current Upgrade Entitlement agreements to register for the portal, and are excited that so many have responded with positive feedback and suggestions for future enhancements. Our goal continues to be keeping workflows operational with minimal downtime.

To learn more or to register for the Customer Portal, visit mygxp.com.

Check out the 2012 schedule of regional, user-focused events:

• July 25, 2012 | NGA | St. Louis, Mo.
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• August 8, 2012 | NGA NCE | Springfield, Va.
• TBD Fall 2012 | Tampa, Fl.

Friday, November 18, 2011
MacDill Air Force Base – Tampa, FL
CENTCOM JOIC Conference Center
Choose from one of two identical sessions:
8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. or 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

More information >>
Click here to register online >>

BAE Systems is hosting two free, unclassified open house sessions to preview GXP Xplorer v2.0.1.1, the revolutionary new data management application, and to demonstrate SOCET GXP v4.0, the analyst’s tool of choice for data fusion, analysis, and geospatial-intelligence reporting.

The briefings present an overview of key software capabilities and insight into how the tools work together. Two identical sessions are offered — one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Both half-day presentations are unclassified.

Agenda

The agenda includes a mini software boot camp featuring:

GXP Xplorer: Locate, retrieve, and share data

• All data types, from images to documents — and everything in between
• Search geospatially, temporally, or textually (including metadata)
• Federate — search multiple data stores
• Chip before download
• Geotagging capability
• Notifications through GeoRSS and KML queries for GoogleEarth
• Mobile app

SOCET GXP: Easy product creation for any workflow

• Quick product creation
• LIDAR terrain visualization
• Multispectral image analysis
• Planimetric feature extraction
• Automated 3-D site and city modeling
• 3-D line of sight analysis and visualization
• 2-D and 3-D product creation and output to GeoPDF and PowerPoint
• Real-time hyperspectral and multispectral analysis

Registration

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Security clearances

Clearances may be passed through the person’s local SSO, S-2, or security representative of the parent command in one of three ways:

• Send message through JPAS, the CENTCOM SMO code is MA3CF9ZM2
• Send a message through M3 @ PLA (plain language address) SSO COMCENT//CCJ2 SSO//
• Fax a clearance message to 813-827-3382/DSN 651-3382

Any questions can be directed to 813-827-3381 / DSN 651-3381.

BAE Systems cordially invites you to an informational workshop to see new GXP software.

Wednesday, 16 November, 2011, 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. (includes lunch)
BAE Systems  |  Farnborough office
The Park Centre, Farnborough Aerospace Centre
Farnborough, Hants, GU14 6XN, U.K.

The briefing covers SOCET GXP v3.2 photogrammetry, mapping, geospatial production, and image analysis workflows; new tools coming in SOCET GXP v4.0; guidelines for transitioning SOCET SET workflows to SOCET GXP; and an introduction to GXP Xplorer — the new data management and visualisation tool that everyone is talking about.

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Automatic feature extraction in SOCET GXP v4.0.
Data provided by OSGB, U.K.

The future of SOCET SET is here!

With each new release, SOCET GXP has integrated numerous geospatial analysis and image exploitation tools. Now end-to-end photogrammetric functionality is a reality in SOCET GXP v4.0. The intuitive Microsoft Office Fluent user interface organises the workspace and simplifies rigorous tasks. New technology is embedded in the system architecture, resulting in superior efficiency, usability, and significantly shorter production times. The workshop features typical geospatial analysis workflows, including many photogrammetric features that SOCET SET users have been waiting for, proving that there’s never been a better time to transition to SOCET GXP v4.0.

Agenda

SOCET GXP v3.2 overview

The overall user experience is superior to previous versions with live previews and galleries. Users see processes applied to imagery, graphics, and terrain in real-time before they are committed. Other highlights include:

• Frame import and triangulation
• Multi-sensor triangulation with rigorous bundle adjustment
• Automatic terrain surface modelling and bare-earth modelling with NGATE and ITE
• Connection to Esri ArcMap or geodatabase, and Google Earth
• Automated orthomosaicking and true-orthorectification, plus new on-the-fly seamline editing tool
• Video analysis capabilities
• Spectral classification algorithms for hyperspectral multispectral processing

New features coming in SOCET GXP v4.0

Highlights of the forthcoming SOCET GXP release include automatic feature extraction from LIDAR or digital surface
models, 3-D modeling tools for scene visualisation, and TIN and GRID terrain editing:

• Planimetric and volumetric feature extraction including new drawing and edit tools, cue cards, and new Toolbox
• Semi-automated 3-D building, and city modelling, line-of-sight analysis, and visualization
• Automated volumetric feature extraction from surface models, or point clouds, using the new AFE algorithm
• 2-D and 3-D product creation and output to GeoPDF and PowerPoint
• Intuitive photogrammetric workflows with Microsoft Office Fluent user interface
• Advanced visualisation and terrain editing (TIN and Grid, including LIDAR point clouds), using new drawing tool box

Introduction to GXP Xplorer

Discover a revolutionary way to organize and access data from a handheld device, desktop or enterprise-wide service cluster. Discover, access, and organize geospatial data in GXP Xplorer; use SOCET GXP to view and exploit the data; then republish intelligence products generated to GXP Xplorer for dissemination.

Registration

To register, simply complete and return the registration form via e-mail to Bridget Durham: bridget.durham@baesystems.com, tel: +44 (0)1223 370035.

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Rajnish Bhatia has joined the BAE Systems India office as the GXP regional manager. Bhatia’s appointment extends BAE Systems’ commitment to internationally promote its technically advanced geospatial-intelligence software.

NEW DELHI, INDIA – BAE Systems has expanded its Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP®) business to support escalating customer requirements for image analysis, data management and geospatial production tools throughout India. Retired Lt. Col. Rajnish Bhatia has joined the BAE Systems India office as the GXP regional manager.

Bhatia’s appointment extends BAE Systems’ commitment to internationally promote its technically advanced geospatial-intelligence software, including SOCET GXP®, GXP Xplorer and SOCET SET®. He will work closely with Rob Lacey, director of sales for the Asia, Australia and Pacific-Rim (APAC) region. Bhatia joins the GXP team after 23 years with the Indian Army and more than 15 years working in GIS, remote sensing, photogrammetry and geographical surveying. His most recent appointment was long-term planning, developing policy and monitoring high-tech information systems projects for the Indian Army, Directorate General of Information Systems in New Delhi.

“BAE Systems delivers mapping products that automate many of the arduous processes associated with gathering and analyzing data,” said Bhatia. “As customers become more skilled in the geospatial sciences, these tools make a significant impact on the growth of the geospatial industry in the region.”

SOCET GXP satisfies the Indian Ministry of Defence’s requirements for full-motion video, terrain generation and editing, feature extraction, image exploitation and orthorectification capabilities. With its expanded presence in the region, BAE Systems is positioned to surpass the expectations of the geospatial-intelligence community throughout India and the APAC region.

BAE Systems named Lacey as sales director for its APAC region early last year. Prior to joining the GXP team, Lacey was a technical liaison for the Australian government’s Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (DIGO). He spent several years working with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C to improve collaboration between the two agencies. During his tenure at DIGO, Lacey created an enterprise-wide geospatial database to streamline internal business processes, and developed a strategy based on modern Web architecture principles to improve the visibility and dissemination of geospatial information to DIGO customers. This work defined the business model that DIGO will implement in the coming years.

For GXP assistance in India, please contact:

Robert Lacey
Director of Sales
Asia, Australia and Pacific Rim Region
Geospatial eXploitation Products
Tel: +61 2 6229 1665
Mobile: 0435 968 385
Fax: +61 2 6230 4345
E-mail: rob.lacey@baesystems.com

Rajnish Bhatia
Regional Manager
Geospatial eXploitation Products
Indian Region
Tel: +91 11 43412345
Mobile: +91 95605 08945
Fax: +91 11 43412 373/74
E-mail: rajnish.bhatia@baesystems.co.in

For media interest, please contact:

Despina Froumis, BAE Systems
Tel: 858 675 2845
Mobile: 858 472 6958
E-mail: despina.froumis@baesystems.com

Guy Douglas, BAE Systems
Tel: +91 11 43412345
Mobile: +91 97175 35511