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Enhanced Predictive Tool Enables
Suitability Analysis
SPADAC, a leading provider
of spatially enhanced technology
solutions, today announced the
release of Signature Analyst 3.1, the
latest version of its patented and
commercially available geospatial
predictive analysis tool featuring
an ArcGIS extension that provides
users with advanced spatial statistics
and modeling to enable suitability
analysis, risk assessment
and resource allocation. Signature
Analyst 3.1 provides geospatial
analysts an unbiased statistical
approach to analyze events within
an area of interest, discover relationships
between events and
factors, and predict where similar
GPS-Enabled Units
Support Field
Operations
The AT&T-enabled Nomad 800X
Series computers from Trimble include
three new models of its popular outdoor
rugged handheld computer that offer
wireless wide area network functionality
and integrated quad-band GSM cellular
data transmission, digital photography
and bar code scanning in one device. The
Nomad 800X Series models use a built-in
high-speed wireless data modem and
AT&T’s nationwide EDGE network to allow
users to communicate from the field to a
central office or other location. Nomad
800X Series computer users can send and
receive real-time data and SMS messages
via a cellular network at speeds of up to 1
Mb per second wherever cellular connectivity
is available. The Nomad 800XE
handheld computer features bar code
scanning capabilities, making it a valuable
tool across a broad array of applications
where in-the-field bar code scanning
is essential, including asset management,
tracking and warehousing. It delivers
up to three scans per second, offers easy
events might occur. Input data
layers include physical, sociocultural,
economic, demographic
and GEOINT factors from a variety
of sources, including ArcSDE.
Finished output products generated,
called geospatial assessments,
often are visualized as a hot-spot
map. The software enables analysts
the ability to analyze thousands
of data layers and discover relationships,
patterns and preferences.
ArcGIS provides a variety
of capabilities in GIS, cartography
and visualization to enable highquality
map production.
Kristina Messner
kmessner@focusedimage.com
field- f i e l dto-office
connectivity, and
provides all-day usage
of eight hours on a single battery charge.
Users can choose from a range of compatible
battery options, as well as add an
ergonomic pistol-grip attachment that
improves efficiency for mobile bar-code
scanning. In addition, users can access
the Internet and e-mail, and use optional
software and built-in GPS capability to
transmit their position in the field.
LeaAnn McNabb
leaann_mcNabb@trimble.com
Compiled by KMI Media Group staff
Geo-Specific Database
Targets Fixed, Rotary
Wing Applications
Quantum3D, a provider of COTS real-time
visual computing solutions, has announced the
availability of Geoscape Worldwide. The geo-specific
worldwide database follows on the company’s
leadership in geo-specific databases, including
those for the conterminous United States, Guam
and more. Geoscape Worldwide is targeted toward
fixed wing and rotary wing applications. Unlike
competing worldwide databases that offer geotypical
representations of the earth, Geoscape
Worldwide is built from 15 m base geo-specific
imagery covering 100 percent of the earth’s
landmasses outside the polar regions. Augmented
with 10 m geo-specific imagery covering the
entire conterminous United States, the database
also offers 10 FAA Level D Areas of Interest (AOIs)
in CONUS built from geo-specific imagery with
resolutions from 5 m to 60 cm. Base areas of
the earth are represented by three levels of detail
(LODs) morphing terrain, and AOIs are included
with up to six LODs morphing terrain. Definite
transition from landmasses to water bodies is
provided by extensive use of vector shoreline
data. So that users can add and remove AOIs in
response to changing training mission scenarios,
Geoscape Worldwide is structured to support AOI
overlays onto the 15 m base LODs. Using overlays,
users can expand, enhance and maintain
the evolution of their own version of Geoscape
Worldwide, as well as incorporate new AOIs from
Quantum3D as they are developed. Geoscape
Worldwide, which is optimized for Quantum3D’s
Independence image generators, comprises 15
separate regions joined seamlessly for worldwide
continuous flight applications.
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