RasterWare Appliances ImageLinks RasterWare Appliances™ Images Your Way

RasterWare Appliances

ImageLinks RasterWare Appliances™Images Your Way


What is RasterWare™ Technology?• Advanced software providing “on demand” processing and

immediate delivery of custom imagery

• User specifies Area of Interest and final output specifications

• Non destructive, parameter driven, single resample creation and delivery of custom image products (i.e. orthos, mosaics, fusions, change detection, etc.) from original (raw) raster datasets

• Data products can be tiled, reprojected, resampled, resized, etc.

• Automated processing & turn-key solution -- installed as an intra or internet web based appliance

• Final product immediately delivered directly into the end users application


Traditional Workflow

Customer Requirement

Collect & Load ContentSatellite, Aerial, Radar, DEM, control

Error Correction• Registration with ground control

Initial Product Generation• Reformat & reproject data• Orthorectify, Tonal Balance • Each step requires resampling

Final Processing & Formatting• Fusion, Mosaic, color enhancement,• each step requires resampling

Output to Media

Customer Loads into their System

New Customer Requirement(Restart from the beginning)

RasterWare Workflow

Collect & Load ContentSatellite, Aerial, Radar, DEM, control, vectors, error correction

(registration if required) and GeoTIFF’s

Stage to RasterWare Appliance• Native format support & projection independence• n-band radiometry support, Total Balancing, Histogram matching• Automated, model based Orthorectification with terrain correction• Reproject, Resample, Resize• Fusion (cross sensor products), Change Detection, Mosaicking• Non-destructive, parameter driven processing (single resampling)

from native data to final product • Produces & delivers data bundles (imagery, elevation, vectors, etc)

for the user specified AOI• Server based , scaleable, multiprocessor architecture• Web interface & XML API’s• Final product delivered directly into user application

Multiple Customer Requirements SatisfiedImmediately “on demand”

Geospatial Product Generation


Typical Implementation Environments

• A network which serves many users with disparate needs with a common set of data. The disparate requirements tend to be (a) projection/datum related or (b) custom product generation (change detection, mosaic, band selection, fusion, etc.)

• An application where a higher frequency of updated imagery would be beneficial such as agriculture or environmental monitoring - eliminates pre-generating products and enables more change detection options

• Workstation based analysis where users require “data bundles” (imagery, elevation, tin, vectors, etc.) and not just a picture

• A production system to more efficiently generate products


RasterWare Appliances Family

• RasterPro™ Series - Entry Level “process and delivery” systems

• Active Archive™ DP Series - mid-level, full-functionality raster data storage, delivery and management appliance

• Active Archive™ BC Series - high-end, full-functionality raster data storage, delivery and management system with fully scaleable “supercomputing” Beowulf cluster technology.


RasterPro™ Series

• Dual processors, RAM

• Base 80 GB storage (expandable up to 720GB)

• 9x hot-swap drive bays • Network interface 10/100Mbps comm

port• Includes all hardware, system software

and ImageLinks RasterWare software


Active Archive™ DP Series

• Dual processors, RAM• 1.2 Terabytes IDE Level 5 RAID Storage

(expandable up to 4.8 Terabytes)• Internal monitor and keyboard for system

administration • Network interface 10/100Mbps comm port• Uninterruptible Power Supply • Available in either 33 or 52-inch roll-away cabinets• Includes all hardware, system software and

ImageLinks RasterWare software


Active Archive™ BC Series

• Beowulf Cluster (4-nodes, 8-processors) w/ ethernet switch (expandable up to 16-nodes, 32-processors)

• 1.2 Terabytes IDE Level 5 RAID Storage (expandable up to 4.8 Terabytes)

• Internal monitor and keyboard for system administration

• Network 10/100Mbps comm port• Uninterruptible Power Supply • Available in either 33 or 52-inch roll-away cabinets• Includes all hardware, system software and

ImageLinks RasterWare software


Raster Data Content Examples

• Post Processed Products (e.g. Orthos, DEM, DRG, DOQQ, etc.)• System corrected imagery processed with ImageLinks error correction

metadata• Imagery collected with accurate ephemeris data (e.g. CitiPix, IKONOS, L7,

QuickBird, etc.)


Three Tiered Architecture

DBMSDBMS IMAGE PROCESSING ENGINESIMAGE PROCESSING ENGINES

RASTERWARE ™ ENGINERASTERWARE ™ ENGINE

RasterWare ApplianceRasterWare Appliance

CUSTOM CUSTOM APPLICATION SOLUTIONSAPPLICATION SOLUTIONS DISTRIBUTIVEDISTRIBUTIVE

APPLICATION SOLUTIONSAPPLICATION SOLUTIONS

APPLICATION EXTENSIONSAPPLICATION EXTENSIONS(ArcView(ArcView))

THIRD PARTY THIRD PARTY APPLICATION SOLUTIONSAPPLICATION SOLUTIONS

(ArcIMS)(ArcIMS)

User Interface Tier

Middleware Tier

Bottom Tier


Sample Solution

• Default client interface solution installed with every RasterWare Appliance

• Shows the full functionality of the RasterWare technology

• Starting point for the customization of a new interface tailored to the individual user needs


PixSell ArcIMS Solution

• ArcIMS solutions are from PixSell, Inc. – an industry leader in the customization of ArcIMS

• Extends the capabilities of ArcIMS systems to be able to serve dynamically value-added products from raw data sources


ArcView Extension

• Application solutions for the IRA don’t have to be web-based

• They can also be a client-side program or an extension to an application

• ArcView extension can be customizable to any IRA application solution.


DRG Solution

• Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) at a variety of scales (1:20K, 1:24K, 1:25K, 1:30K, 1:100K, 1:250K) are used as base maps for image registration

• This solution provides paperless maps on demand to production personnel for use in the image registration process.


Landsat Path/Row Solution

• Uses Landsat “footprints” as the AOI for product identification and data retrieval

• Facilitates selecting DRGs, DOQs, or other basemaps for use in the registration process.

• Records previously used or rejected maps to expedite processing.


Aerial Solution

• An all-inclusive aerial-management system. Currently customized for the Airborne Data Systems (ADS) cameras and CitiPix products.

• Allows for interactive QA/QC, image selection or rejection, and output definition.

• Products include, “on-the-fly” creation of individual orthos or seamless tonally-balanced mosaics.


Hyperspectral Solution• An airborne-

hyperspectral data management and delivery system.

• Currently supports GER, PHILLS, Hymap, and Probe.

• Products include, “on-the-fly” creation of n-band orthos, copies of the “raw data, and seamless tonally-balanced mosaics.


Earth-Info Distributive Site

• Earth-info.org is dedicated to giving access to information about commercially available imagery to the public

• Hosted in Washington DC and is able to query the IRA in Melbourne, FL and in turn pull the browse imagery from EDC in Sioux Falls, SD.


OSSIM Solution

• Provides methods to create fast and accurate Image Maps from satellite or aerial imagery and digitized maps.

• Targeted to the government for using National Technical Means (NTM) data such as ADRG, CADRG, CIB and NITF.


Middle Tier

RASTERWARE™ ENGINERASTERWARE™ ENGINE

•Acts as a “request broker” that translates User Interface requests to software requests

•Handles load balancing and service management

•Communicates with User Interface via a standard http POST or an XML-formatted request


Bottom Tier

• EMET, Enhanced Multi-Image Exploitation Tool

• OSSIM, Open Source Software Image Map

• ImgLnk, ImageLinks Proprietary

DBMSDBMS IMAGE PROCESSING ENGINESIMAGE PROCESSING ENGINES

BOTTOM TIERBOTTOM TIER


Distributive Querying

• Multiple RasterWare databases residing on an Intranet/Internet can be searched simultaneously when a user request is placed.

• Data sets from disparate IRAs can be merged to produce composite geo-spatial products. A B IMAGELINKS

INTERNET

CLIENT WORKSTATION


Supported Raster Data Import Formats• Arc/Info ASCII Grid • Arc/Info Binary Grid • CEOS (Spot for instance) • First Generation USGS DOQ • New Labeled USGS DOQ • Military Elevation Data • Eosat Fast Format • ESRI .hdr Labeled • Envisat Image Product • FITS • Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) • General Raster (BIL / BIP / BSQ)• TIFF / GeoTIFF • Erdas Imagine .hfa • PCI .aux Labeled • Atlantis HKV Image • Atlantis MFF• JPEG JFIF • Probe • HyMap• PHILLS

• Portable Network Graphics

• Netpbm (.ppm,.pgm)

• Japanese DEM (.mem)

• USGS SDTS DEM

• DTED

• SAR CEOS

• Arc Digitized Raster (ADRG)

• Chip Chunk Format (CCF)

• Control Image Base (CIB)

• Compressed Arc Digitized Raster (CADRG)

• National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF)

• Landsat TM/ETM+

• SPOT 2, 3, 4

• IRS-1C/IRS-1D

• IKONOS II

• Radarsat

• ADAR 5000

• Altaphoto Citipix (ITIFF)

• QuickBird


Supported Raster Data Output Formats

• General Raster (BIL, BIP, BSQ)• SunRaster• MrSid• Chip Chunk Format (CCF)• JPEG with jgw• GeoTiff• Tiff with tfw• 10+ different compressed/uncompressed versions of TIFF


Vector Data Input/Output Formats

• Arc Shapefiles (SHP)

• MapInfo (MIF/MID)

• AutoCAD (DWG/DXF)

• Design Files (DGN)


Additional Features

• Dynamic terrain-correction using internal elevation libraries

• User Interfaces communicate via HTTP posts or XML requests

• Support for over 200 different projections and datums

• Includes ImageLinks Virtual Sensor™ for cross-sensor processing

• Final Image Product can be delivered directly into user application, by FTP or by media (CDs, hard drives, tape, etc.)

• Supports distributed architecture

• OGC Compliant


Functional Demonstration

Coordinates

Map

Gazetteer

Specify Area of Interest (AOI)


Search Results



Customize & Order ProductUser has control over:

File Format Additional Layers Product Resampling Map Projections Datums



• Product Preview• Time/Size Estimate provided• User Initiates Processing



• Notification of product generation within minutes

• Email notification or directly loaded in user application when Processing Complete

• Delivered with metadata and geospatial tags



• Change Detection

Example Image Products Delivered via RasterWare™ Technology


Mosaic Products

Example Image Product Delivered via RasterWare™ Technology


Fused Products


Fused Product via ImageLinks Virtual Sensor™ Technology

Map

Image

Image Products Delivered via RasterWare™


Value Propositions

• SAVES TIME

• Automated high performance image processing & delivery

Centralized computing power No more waiting for someone to generate a product and ship to you

• SAVES MONEY

• Automated delivery for specific end user application Removes manual labor Multiple applications from raw data sets Eliminates additional data costs

• Efficient large data storage Opens onsite storage space Save money for additional computing space and power


Value Propositions

• MAKES MONEY

• Multiple users have simultaneous access from one or more locations Any number of users from anywhere Large data sets available for viewing and production from anywhere

• INCREASES COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE• Instantaneous delivery to multiple users via the Web Products delivered when, where and how you need them

• Customer Service Client access to imagery as processed Faster delivery

• Customizable user interface Quicker analysis leads to quicker solutions


Summary• Appliance approach – leverages your current investment in hardware &

software

• Increases efficiency and productivity by rapid delivery of customized image product for just the specified Area of Interest (AOI)

• First generation, automated, “on-the-fly” processing delivers:

• Orthos, Mosaics , Fusions, Blends, Change Detection, etc.

• Images can be Reprojected, Resampled, Resized, Tiled, and output in multiple formats

• Designed to effectively manage and process terabytes of raster and vector data.

• Powerful, scalable image processing capability increasing efficiencies and productivity


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