Jul 04, 2009, post by Adam Wątróbski
ImageTree Corporation has made business agreements with GeoEye, Inc., and MJ Harden Associates, Inc., enabling the three companies to cooperatively create, market, sell and provide commercially viable, management inventory solutions to the forestry industry.
GeoEye and its wholly owned subsidiary MJ Harden are premier, complementary providers of timely, accurate and accessible location intelligence, solutions and services.
“Under a teaming agreement, ImageTree drives the marketing and proposal phases of any collaborative project,” said ImageTree Executive Vice President George Fulton, who is the ImageTree executive responsible for agreement oversight.
“GeoEye and MJ Harden work closely with us to ensure that we leverage their developing technologies, which not only improve the accuracy and precision of our products, but also provide more efficient data and imagery acquisition and processing, resulting in cost savings for our customers,” he continued.
In the project phase, Fulton said, “We collaborate to customize a remote-sensing solution for each project that meets all agreed-to quality-assurance requirements for both collection and processing.”
A separate master services agreement, he added, calls for MJ Harden to provide LiDAR, CIR and other specialized imagery collection services, in addition to data conversion, application development, and other services, as required.
“Projects are completed on a contract basis and could require use of GeoEye’s satellites, MJ Harden’s fixed-wing aircraft or both — for either imagery or data collection,” explained Fulton. “With these agreements – which provide easy access to multi-sensor data – a full range of options are available to best serve clients on a case-by-case basis.”
“GeoEye and MJ Harden are teaming with ImageTree because of their expertise in using remote-sensing information; combined with field measurements inputs, automated software and advanced mathematics, to develop accurate forestry inventories,” said Joel Campbell, senior director of product management at GeoEye.
Campbell added, “Our expertise is in the capture and processing of exceptional quality information products, services and solutions, including imagery suitable for forest management applications, and ImageTree’s expertise is in the development of remote-sensing systems that are necessary to facilitate visual analytics and feature extraction. The combined resources make this a powerful partnership for offering forest management companies innovative solutions,” he said.
Jul 04, 2009, post by Adam Wątróbski
GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY) informed about new government awards totaling more than $25 million to supply geospatial products and services. Under awards during the first and second quarters of 2009, GeoEye will deliver the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) a significant amount of value-added, imagery-based geospatial-intelligence solutions. Imagery processing and manufacturing will be performed at GeoEye’s advanced imagery processing centers located in St. Louis, MO, Thornton, CO, and Dulles, VA. These awards are in addition to the Service Level Agreement (SLA) modification to the company’s existing NextView contract with the NGA announced Dec. 10, 2008.
GeoEye, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, delivers imagery and imagery information products and solutions to the U.S. government, including the national security community, and international customers and North American commercial customers.
Jul 04, 2009, post by Adam Wątróbski
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) informed that its Lynx Block 30 Synthetic Aperture Radar/Ground Moving Target Indicator (SAR/GMTI) radar has completed two successful test flights on a Sky Warrior Block 1 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in support of the planned Quick Reaction Capability (QRC) deployment of the first four Sky Warrior aircraft under the U.S. Army Extended Range/Multi-Purpose (ER/MP) UAV Program.
The flights were conducted in March. Numerous SAR (spot and stripmap) images were taken at various ranges and resolutions via GA-ASI’s CLAW sensor control and exploitation software in the Army’s One System Ground Control Station (OSGCS); Change Detection products were calculated and displayed. What is more, the GMTI mode was used to locate and track moving objects in real-time. Since completing the delivery of the original eight Lynx II radars to the Army last year on the radar System Design and Development (SDD) program, GA-ASI has preformed numerous upgrades to the radar in its continuing commitment to enhance capabilities and boost performance. Contractor flights with the Block 30 radar configuration have shown SAR and GMTI performance consistent with the threshold level demands in the ER/MP Capabilities Production Document (CPD). An agreement was awarded to GA-ASI on May 1st to update the eight Lynx II radars to the Block 30 configuration in support of Quick Reaction Capability 1 (QRC1). The Lynx Block 30 radar provides the all-weather precision capability to detect time-sensitive targets and offers a long-range, wide-area surveillance capability that can provide high-resolution SAR imagery at slant ranges well beyond effective EO/IR range. It also incorporates a broad area GMTI scanning capability to detect moving vehicles, and can cross-cue to an EO/IR payload via the CLAW payload control software.
