December 2005 | Destinations
2005 GEOINT Symposium
Other GXP demonstrations included SOCET SET and Common Geopositioning Services (CGS), the newly established DoD-wide standard for precision targeting.
BAE Systems had an impressive presence at the GEOINT 2005 Symposium, the nation’s premier geospatial intelligence event, held this year in San Antonio, Texas, October 30 – November 2, 2005. BAE Systems showcased numerous software and technology innovations represented by several business units. The Geospatial Exploitation Products™ (GXP) group unveiled new capabilities and functionality for SOCET GXP v2.1.1. SOCET GXP is the complete software package for image analysis, geospatial analysis and targeting. Many visitors to the booth had “heard the buzz” but not yet seen GXP. After viewing demos, potential users were very impressed with SOCET GXP’s capabilities and ease of operation.
Other GXP demonstrations included SOCET SET® and Common Geopositioning Services (CGS), the newly established DoD-wide standard for precision targeting. The powerful combination of CGS and SOCET GXP provides a world-class, easy to train and use capability for all-source precision geolocation with reliable and accurate 3D coordinates and statistically valid error estimates.
SOCET GXP Multiport showing CGS targeting capabilities.
CGS brings together a combination commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)/government-off-the-shelf (GOTS) software application for both UNIX® and Windows® platforms that provides precision geopositioning services for use in defense and intelligence applications. It can be deployed as a stand-alone workstation, which includes the SOCET GXP application as the CGS Integrated Viewer, to form a complete targeting workstation, and sets the standard for Target Location Error (TLE) determination.
In addition, the Global Analysis and Intelligence Analysis division of BAE Systems, in conjunction with Solid Terrain Modeling, displayed their 3D model of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge Race.
BAE Systems was one of over 100 exhibitors at the four-day event, which was sponsored by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. This year’s theme was “SECURING FREEDOM – Defeating Threats, Saving Lives.” BAE Systems supported the overall theme with a focus on “Transforming data to knowledge…getting the benefits of technology into the hands of the user,” and participated in the Multi-source GEOINT Technology Demonstration. The demonstration illustrated worldwide interoperability within the geospatial intelligence community.