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DMC International Imaging Ltd.
Tycho House
20 Stephenson Road
Guildford, GU2 7YE
GREAT BRITAIN
+44 (0)1483 804299; +44 (0)1483 803804 (fax)
info@dmcii.com; www.dmcii.com
DMC International Imaging is a company based in the UK providing imagery and derived products globally. The unique in-house capability offered by the Disaster Monitoring Constellation enables the rapid revisit to any site once per day for imagery collection at 32m resolution. Also, access to higher resolution imagery up to 2.8m pan-sharpened imagery offers a wide imagery portfolio. Other products and services include derived products including land use maps, change detection imagery and mosaiced imagery for customised projects.
New developments include two further sensors supplying 22m resolution imagery. These will be made available early 2009 with the additional offer of direct-to-groundstation download services.
Geospace Inc.
5701 Carmel Ave NE Ste C
Albuquerque, NM 87113-2843
(888) 343-0003; (888) 629-4445 (fax)
web@geospaceinc.com; www.geospaceinc.com
Geospace Inc., located in Albuquerque, NM is developing “dual use” geospatial information software and solutions for commercial and government users. Geospace Inc. has licensed valuable intellectual property developed by the Boeing Company that will contribute to its continued development of products that are designed for the analysis of high volumes of multispectral, hyperspectral and other imagery while leveraging the latest geospatial database technologies. Additionally, Quick Atmospheric Correction software (“QUAC”) has been licensed from Spectral Sciences Inc. and integrated into Geospace Inc. products. Geospace Inc. products use the GIST .NET viewer, which provides a simple, modern user interface and functionality to streamline image analysis tasks. Another distinctive is the ability to use various geospatial databases as part of the image analysis process to facilitate tasks such as change and anomaly detection.
FeatureObjeX™ (“FOX”) is the lead software product, providing automated feature extraction capabilities for analysts who work on airborne, satellite and other imagery. An emphasis for FeatureObjeX ™ is meeting the needs of users who work with large volumes of data by minimizing the wall clock time needed for a project. FOX provides an intuitive analysis environment in which the analyst interacts with the software, training it to look for features and receiving rapid performance feedback.
In addition to providing commercial software products, Geospace Inc. is developing custom geospatial information solutions for defense applications. It leads a multi/hyperspectral image analysis software project for the Air Force Research Laboratory and is teamed with Panavision Federal Systems, LLC to develop a very compact visible through short wave infrared airborne imaging system for the Air Force. Other remote sensing system and analysis projects are planned as Geospace Inc. provides solutions that reach from the desktop to the collection systems.
Urban Robotics, Inc.
33 NW First Avenue, Suite 200
Portland, OR 97209
503) 224-9239; (503) 210-1910 (fax)
rfi@urbanrobotics.net; http://www.urbanrobotics.net
Urban Robotics, Inc. provides cutting edge software and hardware solutions for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and remote sensing applications. Products include aerial EO and NearIR digital sensor systems, high performance aerial and ground computer clusters, and automated algorithms for generating fast turn-around orthorectifi ed maps:
SENSOR SYSTEMS: The PeARL Sensor System is a high end airborne EO and NIR frame sensor. A typical installation includes an aggregate 84 MegaPixel RGB 12-bit/channel sensor cluster. When combined with a Wulfpack Aerial Cluster, it is capable of near real time optimization and registration of imagery.
COMPUTER CLUSTERS: The Wulfpack ground and aerial clusters are high performance computer systems designed for the challenging fi eld environments associated with military aircraft and ground installations. These Intel-based 100+ CPU core clusters are customized for low-power, low-weight, and rugged environments. Custom Urban Robotics developed software infrastructure fully utilizes the cluster’s computational muscle for near-real-time advanced processing of frame and video based imagery in the air or on the ground.
ALGORITHMS: Urban Robotics specializes in high-end, distributed image processing algorithms and software packages for advanced GIS applications, including algorithms for georeferencing, mosaicing and 3D extraction. The algorithms have been tuned to support a number of source sensors including EO, NIR, FLIR, and SAR imagery, and can output in a variety of formats including Google Earth, Geo- TIFFs, and DOQQs.
Urban Robotics customers include federal agencies, military forces and private corporations. With products in place and onsite supported around the world, Urban Robotics has a proven track record of bringing advanced technologies quickly into deployed products. Products & Services: