SOCET GXP® feature analysis capabilities
Vector-supported image analysis and 3-D feature collection integrated with ESRI®
BAE Systems’ SOCET GXP® offers flexible options for working with existing feature databases, collecting, editing, and querying feature data, and copying features between databases. The application also supports the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Spatially Enabled Exploitation (SEE) initiative to standardize data formats.
A large part of feature analysis for imagery requires comparing historical reports with new data to detect changes over time. Most geospatial features lose value rapidly unless they are updated and maintained. With SOCET GXP, analysts use familiar tools and universal file formats to create, collect, edit, store, and retrieve geospatial features and their associated attributes to provide accurate and timely situational awareness.
The SEE module for SOCET GXP interacts with ESRI® geodatabases. Analysts with little or no photogrammetry experience can connect to and populate the ESRI geodatabase directly from the SOCET GXP Workspace Manager and associated Multiport™. SOCET GXP manages the complexities of sensor models and terrain, allowing analysts to concentrate on image exploitation. Users draw, extract, update, and query features and image graphics — such as roads, buildings, and targets — using a ground coordinate system that records latitude, longitude, and elevation. Regardless of sensor type, images and graphics are aligned properly on subsequent images captured over time because the data is referenced in ground space. Analysts can anticipate conditions such as rough terrain or collapsed bridges and pinpoint operational routes more accurately.
Geospatial analysts and users who are more familiar with ESRI tools can access the ArcMap® canvas directly from SOCET GXP with the added benefit of using SOCET for ArcGIS® with optional extraction in a SOCET GXP stereo Multiport. The ArcMap application stores and retrieves feature data while SOCET GXP displays vectors on the imagery with the associated sensor model. Analysts have the option to use SOCET GXP’s SEE drawing and editing tools or those provided in ArcMap.
Organizations select the method best suited to their workflows and customize user preferences for maximum flexibility.