This year’s conference features an expanded agenda with invaluable learning and networking opportunities and a chance to see ground-breaking new technology. SOCET GXP Boot Camp is a full-day orientation that covers the eXtreme Analysis™ functionality in SOCET GXP, while the new GXP Professional Exchange provides a forum to support the exchange of ideas among GIS executives, geospatial and image analysts, and others interested in discussing industry trends and technology.

Now is your chance to register for the conference at a $100 discount off of the regular conference price. Register now to attend the conference at the reduced rate of $695 until April 16, 2009 (regular price is $795). Full conference registration includes workshops and general sessions, breakfast, coffee breaks, lunch, snacks, and social gatherings.

Join us May 4 – 8, 2009 in San Diego, California for the 2009 BAE Systems GXP International User Conference and Professional Exchange. Complete your conference registration before April 16 and save $100!

Commercial satellite imagery and 3-D mapping software help reduce the dangers to aircraft posed by birds and other hazards.

Join us May 4 – 8, 2009 in San Diego, California for the 2009 BAE Systems GXP International User Conference and Professional Exchange.

The story of BAE Systems’ SOCET GXP (Geospatial eXploitation Products) software package began five years ago. That’s when the company began combining aspects of its existing photogrammetry and image analysis (IA) packages — SOCET SET and VITec — with GIS, multispectral, targeting, and other capabilities necessary for geospatial analysis (GA) and production. Dan London, vice president of sales and marketing for BAE Systems, explained that “the goal is to span the entire IA–GA market; [to create] a single user interface that addresses the entire market.

SOCET GXP eXtreme Analysis™ software is described on the United States Geospatial-Intelligence Foundation’s got geoint? Web site as “probably the most buzzed about product news at GEOINT 2008.” SOCET GXP combines image analysis and geospatial production tools into a single application for diverse uses — from finding beach landing sites for combat troops to helping land Mars Rover.

Geospatial Solutions Web site reviews GEOINT 2008. BAE Systems created a significant buzz at GEOINT 2008 — including strong mention by a keynote speaker, Maj. Gen. John M. Custer — with its new SOCET GXP® software for eXtreme Analysis™.

BAE Systems demonstrates new SOCET GXP® XA functionality at the Annual ASPRS Conference, March 9 – 13, 2009.

BAE Systems is hosting a media briefing to demonstrate new technology for automated geospatial-intelligence analysis and reporting. Media representatives are invited to a one-hour demonstration of the company’s SOCET GXP® v3.0 software, which gives infrastructure managers, first responders, and deployed forces wide-ranging new tools for operational planning, change detection, and situational analysis.

BAE Systems’ Rob Stout describes how a team of analysts detected the level of destruction caused by the tsunami in Banda Aceh using BAE Systems’ SOCET GXP software. When a devastating tsunami hit Bandah Aceh, Indonesia, and the surrounding area a few years ago, the destruction was unprecedented. Eyewitnesses compared the disaster to that of Hiroshima, Japan, after it was hit by an atomic bomb during World War II.

In the past few decades, the GIS industry has feasted on a proliferation of specialty software packages designed to accomplish every task imaginable to increase productivity. Technology has taken the tradecraft from tenured professionals, leaving them little choice but to become proficient with a myriad of computer-based tools and devices to stay competitive. With so many options, new paradigms to digest, and long hours logged to learn new products, it was only a matter of time until a next-generation software package would make its debut, eclipsing those that came before it to introduce a new way of working with geospatial data: SOCET GXP v3.0.