Challenge It is imperative to quickly assess damage after a natural disaster to aid rescue efforts... more »
BACKGROUND Traditional industries that are linked to mobility, public safety, logistics and even... more »
On December 26, 2004, a massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit just off the coast of north Sumatra,... more »
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Customer Challenge Until recently, any journey in the ice-infested waters of the Arctic Ocean was a journey into the unknown, with no up-to-date, detailed map of the ice conditions readily available in such a remote region of the world. Now, Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) provides Near Real Time (NRT) satellite imagery of the Arctic Ocean... Read More >
Customer Challenge The Vearncombe consulting group needed a software package that allowed them to effectively find and extract profit yielding mineral deposits. Solution Achieved In the past, prospectors of valuable minerals like gold and silver relied on extensive fieldwork, photography, and personal experience when planning and... Read More >
Customer Challenge The US Airforce needed a way to deliver large-file imagery at high speeds over low bandwidth networks to combat forces. Solution Achieved As part of an Air Force-sponsored program, ITT Corporation (now Exelis, Inc) has developed and delivered an advanced imagery management and dissemination solution for the Air Force that... Read More >
Customer Challenge The European Union (EU) and the European Space Agency (ESA) needed to add powerful visualization capabilities to a simulation environment at the Galileo System Simulation Facility (GSSF). Solution Achieved In 2000, the European Union (EU) and the European Space Agency (ESA) initiated Galileo, an international project to... Read More >
Customer Challenge The Atomic and Optical Theory (T-4) group at Los Alamos National Laboratory generates gigabytes of data using a number of opacity codes that calculate the absorption of radiation by materials under various physical conditions. Physicists on the team needed a way to organize data from the output code so it could be easily... Read More >