GXP Mosaic

SOCET GXP v2.3 features all of the functionality required to satisfy typical image analysis production workflows. This release adds seamless integration and synchronized viewing with Google Earth, and introduces a direct, bidirectional link to the ESRI geodatabase or SOCET SET feature database for dynamic viewing and editing of feature data. Also new in SOCET GXP v2.3 is Spatially Enabled Exploitation (SEE), the NGA initiative designed to enhance image exploitation by creating attributed ground space graphics in a connected enterprise geodatabase environment. SEE allows the analyst to answer critical questions using spatial, attribute, and temporal queries. In addition, smart vector attribution supports external ESRI multi-user/personal databases, shapefiles, and SOCET SET feature databases.

AutoSOCET adds an autonomous geospatial analysis workflow: automated triangulation, terrain data generation, orthorectification, and mosaicking.

Other notable features include:

• Graphical situational display (GSD) capabilities and import, editing, and export for Graphrep/IRR MIL STD 2525 symbols
• NITF image ingest and NITF format file save with SPIA tags; image products can be ingested by the NGA Image Product Library (IPL)
• Auto-populated templates, Ruler, CGS and stereo mensuration, and image chipping
• Multispectral imagery (MSI) container creation in combination with custom per band or per image LUT application offers additional flexibility for image analysis
• New terrain visualization tools for thorough image analysis

SOCET GXP’s fundamental photogrammetric architecture is complete, and we are well on the way to full integration, moving the remainder of SOCET SET’s full functionality into SOCET GXP, which has the same rigorous sensor models as SOCET SET for highly accurate georeferencing.

Click here for a comprehensive summary of SOCET GXP v2.3 release enhancements, as well as those planned for SOCET GXP v2.3.1.

Software patches are now only available for download via FTP access. Please contact a customer support representative for your region for assistance:

Americas: socetgxp.support@baesystems.com
Europe, Middle East, and Africa: socetgxp.emea.sales@baesystems.com
Asia-Pacific: socetgxp.asia.sales@baesystems.com

Ribbon user interface NEW!

SOCET GXP v3.0 features the new Microsoft^® Office 2007 Ribbon user interface. The customizable Ribbon organizes tasks by category to reduce the number of toolbars and buttons visible to the user. SOCET GXP v3.0′s photogrammetric functionality, previously available in SOCET SET, is completely redesigned, with updated GUIs and workflows to maximize productivity and enhance user experience.

Google^™ Earth with synchronized viewing NEW!

Locate and preview imagery geographically using SOCET GXP and Google Earth as quick visual reference and discovery tools. Synchronized views update dynamically. Zoom, rotate, pan, roam, overlay images, and export graphics and image footprints.

SEE NEW!

SOCET GXP v2.3 contains a direct connection to the ESRI geodatabase. BAE Systems software supports this National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency initiative for storing graphics and features with their ground coordinates and attributes in a geodatabase for future retrieval and updating.

SOCET GXP v2.3, scheduled to launch early this summer, features spatially-enabled exploitation (SEE) through vector analysis with a direct bidirectional link to the ESRI® database and the SOCET SET v5.4 feature database; MIL STD 2525 graphics; and Advanced Geospatial Intelligence (AGI) capabilities (formerly MASINT). Other exciting updates planned for SOCET GXP v3.0 include intuitive, easy-to-use Office 2007 style Ribbon user interface and photogrammetric capabilities.

And remember, SOCET SET users with active Upgrade Entitlement migrate to equivalent photogrammetric functionality in SOCET GXP v3.x free of charge!

BAE Systems is excited to announce to users of ESRI products that SOCET GXP v2.3, scheduled for release in 2007, will contain a direct connection to the ESRI Geodatabase. The capability to store graphics and features with attributes in the Geodatabase, and to retrieve them for update or future analysis, creates benefits across the geospatial analysis and imagery analysis communities.

SOCET GXP v2.3 will include the following capabilities:

• Connect to an established ESRI Geodatabase or SOCET SET Feature Database
• Use query tool to pull information out of the database, and to populate or update attributes
• Customize, organize and display annotation graphics, feature graphics and shapefiles
• Sort layers of graphics for animation
• Direct access to MIL-STD 2525 symbols and graphics

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Licensing

• Modular and flexible new licensing scheme provides user-defined formats to fit specific needs or operations

AutoSOCET

• Users can launch AutoSOCET photogrammetric capabilities directly from the Workspace Manager

3D Flythrough

• Control flythroughs via the Flythrough controller
• Place waypoints on the image to fly a route automatically
• Record sequences with improved capabilities

Custom Autolabels from Image Metadata

• Create special autolabels to apply to product templates directly from the image metadata
• Create autolabels as part of original template or place on the image during Product Creation
• Access to autolabels from the Graphics Manager; directional arrows and text annotation values added

Additional enhancements include:

• Raster to vector conversion/shapefile performance improvements
• AGI (MASINT) community capabilities
• Custom Autolabels from Image Metadata (improves Product Creation)
• Custom Arrow drawing capabilities
• IEC Buffer Query capability (v2.1.2 patch)
• Elimination of the Porthole size limitation and addition of “swiper” mode
• Line of Sight analysis
• Image-based graphic support (apply graphics to single image segment)
• Directional Arrow graphic support
• Directional AutoLabel graphic support

SOCET GXP's Finishing Tool offers many flexible options for creating user-defined, customized finished products on the fly. Using the Finishing Tool canvas, you can add auto labels, imagery, scale bars, annotations, map grids and a legend.

SOCET GXP v2.1.1 was released on October 14, 2005 with considerable updates designed to port the geospatial analysis workflow from image analysis (IA) to rigorous geospatial analysis (GA), photogrammetry, and targeting—all from a single user interface.

The most exciting enhancements include terrain visualization for viewing digital elevation models against imagery; a map finishing tool for creating advanced imagery products with the option of direct export to PowerPoint^®; and 3D flythrough capabilities that simulate real world scenarios, giving viewers a cost-effective tool to monitor a geographic region for improved situational awareness and decision making. Flythroughs created in SOCET GXP can be recorded as digital movie files to include in presentations. In addition, the new targeting component is fully integrated with the U.S. Navy’s Common Geopositioning Services (CGS) targeting solution, and is compatible with an unequalled range of government and commercial image sources.

Watch for SOCET GXP v2.1.2, available soon. This release includes JTW v9.1.2.