Defence Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) 2012 - About Our Sponsors

Esri® leads the international geographic information system (GIS) software industry, offers innovative geospatial technology for defence command, control, intelligence, defence mapping and national security activities. ESRI technology will help you collect, manage, analyse, produce, exploit and disseminate critical geospatial information across your network, from the senior decision maker to the warfighter and to national security staff. ESRI technology is standards-based implementing OGC and ISO specifications to enhance interoperability.

DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services. Sourced from our own advanced satellite constellation, our imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses within defense and intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management, internet portals and navigation technology. With our collection sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more than 810 million square kilometers of earth imagery and imagery products) we offer a range of on- and off-line products and services designed to enable customers to easily access and integrate our imagery into their business operations and applications. For more information, please visit our website.

Intergraph Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) provides geospatially powered solutions to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence, government, transportation, utilities, and communications industries. Now part of Intergraph, ERDAS provides integrated products for remote sensing, photogrammetry, and geospatial data management and delivery. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is an independent subsidiary for SG&I’s U.S. federal and classified business. Intergraph SG&I is one of two divisions of Intergraph Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB.
Intergraph is a provider of software and services for generating geospatial intelligence data whose solutions and products are trusted by defense and intelligence agencies around the world to increase situational awareness, improve analysis, and deliver actionable intelligence. Intergraph’s defense and intelligence software facilitates mission success by supporting an industry-leading variety of data types with adaptable workflows, advanced analytical processing, data management, visualization, and product generation using open standards.

For more information, visit www.intergraph.com and www.hexagon.com.

Overwatch, an operating unit of Textron Systems, is the leading provider of GeoINT solutions and services to the defense and intelligence communities. Our modular and intuitive software solutions combine technology innovation with client-focus to help GeoINT analysts optimize workflow management, increase accuracy and accelerate time-to-decision for mission-focused applications.

Raytheon UK is a subsidiary of Raytheon Company. It is a prime contractor and major supplier to the UK Ministry of Defence and has developed strong capabilities in mission systems integration in defence, national security and commercial markets. Raytheon UK also designs, develops and manufactures a range of high-technology electronic systems and software at its facilities in Harlow, Glenrothes, Portsmouth, Uxbridge, Waddington and Broughton.Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2010 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defence, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 89 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 72,000 people worldwide.

BAE Systems has been a trusted supplier of imagery, geospatial products, and services to the defence and intelligence communities and commercial markets for more than 40 years. Its software, services, and innovations improve operations and long-term planning to ensure that decision-makers have the information they need — when every minute counts.

The Geospatial eXploitation Products™ business is a global provider of government and commercial off-the-shelf software for image analysis, geospatial production, mapping, 3-D visualization, and photogrammetry. Its SOCET GXP® application empowers individuals to consolidate image exploitation, geospatial production, photogrammetry, feature extraction, and mapping tasks, reducing the dependency on multiple tools. This gives users increased flexibility and accuracy.

Recent enhancements to SOCET GXP include new capabilities for feature analysis, terrain profiling, and high-definition video analysis. New tools for triangulation, terrain-and surface-model generation, and orthorectification are automated and easy to use, making complex processes more efficient. SOCET GXP is an integrated solution with wide-ranging functionality, reducing training, operation, and maintenance costs, and streamlines production lines.

SAIC

SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering, and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health. The company's approximately 45,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets. Headquartered in McLean, Va., SAIC had annual revenues of $10.8 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2010. For more information, visit www.saic.com. SAIC: From Science to Solutions®

Applanix

Applanix Corporation

Applanix has a simple mission - to be the industry leader in the development, manufacture, sales, and support of Mobile Mapping products and solutions. Our technology is specifically designed for commercial and military applications, including aerial survey and remote sensing, land-based mobile mapping, and marine survey operations – markets we helped pioneer.

Applanix was founded in 1991 on defense and aerospace industry expertise. With global reach and innovative engineering excellence recognized worldwide, the company's Position and Orientation Systems (POS™) are now the industry-standard for airborne, land, and marine survey applications.

Today, we focus on a range of products that provide dynamically accurate measurements of vehicle and sensor position and orientation. Applanix systems integrate precision GPS with advanced inertial technology to provide uninterrupted measurements of the position, roll, pitch and true heading of moving vehicles. By combining GPS and inertial technologies, Applanix offers a fully integrated, turnkey solution for high-productivity in-motion surveying, direct data georeferencing, and robust mobile mapping.

e-GEOS, a Telespazio (80%) / ASI (20%) company, is a leading international player

in the geo-spatial business offering a complete range of products and services in the Earth Observation and in the geo-spatial application domains, based on optical and radar satellites and on aerial surveys. e-GEOS operates through the Earth Observation centres in Matera (Italy) and Neustrelitz (Germany).

As the European hub for Very High Resolution data, e-GEOS grants unique access to the COSMO-SkyMed, GeoEye-1, IKONOS, Radarsat, Envisat, QuickBird and WorldView and IRS satellites, with more than 20 years of experience in satellite data distribution, multi-lingual customer service and multi-mission order management.

In particular, COSMO-SkyMed represents a competitive advantage and a new era of operational applications.

e-GEOS can also rely on the specific know-how of the various companies within the group, such as GAF and Euromap (Germany), Eurimage, Aurensis (Spain), Telespazio Argentina, Telespazio Brasil, Telespazio France that enrich its competitive advantages and provide synergies in the product chain.

GeoEye is a leading source of geospatial information and insight for decision makers and analysts who need a clear understanding of our changing world to protect lives, manage risk and optimize resources. Organizations in defense and intelligence, public safety, critical infrastructure, energy and online media rely on GeoEye’s imagery, tools and expertise to support important missions around the globe.

GeoEye’s ability to collect, process and analyze massive amounts of geospatial data allows our customers to quickly see precise changes on the ground and anticipate where events may occur in the future. GeoEye (NASDAQ: GEOY) is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. www.geoeye.com.

Raytheon TCS

Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions (RTCS) is a global leader with over 18 years of proven success developing and delivering secure data access and transfer solutions to defence organizations, intelligence communities, civilian government agencies, 5 Eyes nations, and NATO member countries. RTCS solutions enable sensitive data to be used collaboratively between unique or isolated networks for mission critical evaluation and analysis. RTCS products and services strike the right balance between information protection and information sharing, a vital component to national and global security. Providing the ability for the right data to be shared with the right people at the right time is our core business focus. With certified and accredited enterprise deployments worldwide, RTCS is the industry leader in cross domain/multi-level security solutions. For more information: http://trustedcs.com.

Astrium GEO-Information Services offers a unique consolidated portfolio of Earth observation and geographic information products and value-added solutions.

Based on a multi-resolution / multi-sensor constellation with the SPOT optical satellites, the TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X radar sensors and the upcoming Pléiades constellation, Astrium GEO-Information services delivers high-quality satellite data and ready-to-use and customized information solutions to customers worldwide.

Defence and intelligence agencies worldwide appreciate the companies' substantial data portfolio as a valuable addition to their data sources, as well as reliable and flexible services such as the GO MONITOR service for regular change detection on sites around the globe.

NVIDIA awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. In the early 2000s, our invention of a programmable processor expanded NVIDIA’s reach into professional graphics. We have since led the industry with breathtaking graphics on computers ranging from smartphones to engineering workstations. Our expertise in GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing, empowering scientists with access to ultra-efficient supercomputers.

Scientists and researchers around the world are using Tesla GPUs to tackle the most complex challenges, from climate modeling to quantum physics to finding a cure for cancer. NVIDIA® CUDA® architecture enables GPUs to work not just with the pixels of an image, but with numerical data. NVIDIA Tesla processors harness CUDA to make supercomputing more efficient and more accessible. Three of the world’s top five supercomputers are powered by Tesla GPUs.

COMPUSULT is an innovator and leading provider of open-architecture, standards-based, geospatial data discovery solutions providing geospatial data access, integration and rapid, reliable, real-time data distribution. COMPUSULT’s flagship product, Web Enterprise Suite (WES), is an integrated suite of software applications, based on open standards, used for the efficient, cost-effective creation of Web-based data discovery, retrieval and decision support portals. This advanced system is deployed for decision support, centralized geospatial data and sensor discovery, collaboration, sharing, delivery and visualization.

To add more value and capability to this comprehensive software suite, Compusult released its latest advance; GO Mobile. With GO Mobile, running on iOS or Android platforms, personnel in the field can now leverage the broad capabilities of Web Enterprise Suite and provide situational intelligence directly to the location-based infrastructure.

Web Enterprise Suite is deployed in support of Defence; Homeland Security; Emergency Management; Resource Management; and Environmental Monitoring and Management.

Spacemetric supplies geospatial image management systems for the space, mapping and defence sectors. With expertise in photogrammetry, surveying and information technology, Spacemetric creates powerful, scalable systems that range from simple production to complete image management solutions for multi-terabyte archives. Its Keystone Image Management System is an integrated solution for satellite and airborne imagery that enhances access to multi-sensor imagery and streamlines the workflow from image acquisition to application.
At its founding in 1999, Spacemetric worked with the space and mapping sectors. Recent years have seen the company’s entry into the defence sector with Keystone systems for airborne reconnaissance in Sweden and UAV video imagery in the Netherlands. And through cooperation with ITT Visual Information Solutions on the ENVI Orthorectification Module, Spacemetric’s technology is now also serving the US Marine Topographic Production Center (TPC).

Rapid 3D Mapping

Saab’s Rapid 3D Mapping™ solution provides a tactical advantage by enabling the fast generation and automatic production of highly detailed 3D maps of the actual terrain.

The system uses data from manned aircraft, helicopters and/or UAV’s and the 3D map is generated within 5 hours after a 1 hour mission.

With a flight altitude of 500 meters the resolution is typically 10 centimeters and the georeferenced accuracy is better than 0.3 meters.

For more information, visit our website: http://www.saabgroup.com/rapid-3d-mapping/

Logica is a business and technology service company, employing 41,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration and outsourcing to clients around the world, including many of Europe's largest organisations.

Our geospatial and intelligence expertise is founded on a profound understanding of the environment built up over the past 40 years. Every aspect of the technical, operational and security issues that apply to this specialised market are known to Logica and our depth of expertise is recognised in the many national and international programmes we deliver successfully.

Logica’s core capability is information management, and covers every aspect of secure data handling including collection, collation, storage, exploitation and dissemination. Our ability to leverage this experience and deliver an information capability is a powerful driver for success and underpins the continued growth of our business in the Defence, Intelligence, Space and Security markets.

Since 1992, LizardTech® has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID® technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo and is a division of Celartem Technology Inc.

Celebrating our 50th year in business, CACI provides professional services and IT solutions needed for defense, intelligence, homeland security, IT modernization, and government transformation. CACI services and solutions help our government clients provide for national security, improve communications and collaboration, secure the integrity of information systems and networks, enhance data collection and analysis, and increase efficiency and mission effectiveness. We support the geospatial community through innovative visualization services combining imagery and vectors; mobility products providing critical information to remote users; and IT support designing and delivering global networks for secure data transport, cloud computing solutions, systems, and application development. CACI is a member of the Fortune 1000 Largest Companies and the Russell 2000 index. Visit CACI at booth #55 to discuss how the company can improve your mission effectiveness and support our national security.

MarkLogic is revolutionising the way organisations leverage Big Data. More than 250 customers in industries including government, financial services, healthcare, and media are driving revenue and growth through transformative Big Data Analytics enabled by MarkLogic products, services, and partners. MarkLogic is headquartered in Silicon Valley with field offices in Austin, Boston, Frankfurt, London, New York, and Washington DC.

Exelis Visual Information Solutions provides advanced, high performance image processing and analysis solutions for delivering and extracting mission critical information from geospatial imagery. Visit our booth for one-on-one demonstrations to see how easy it is to get expert level image analysis results in order to quickly make time-sensitive decisions. Our product suite includes:
ENVI – Image Analysis Software: See how ENVI can help you quickly and accurately analyze imagery to classify land cover, detect and identify targets, extract features of interest, and more.
IAS – Advanced Technology for Image Delivery: Learn more about our image dissemination platform to delivery and visually exploit geospatial imagery data where and when you need it.
E3DE – Interactive Software for 3D LiDAR Visualization and Analysis. Increase your decision making power by creating dynamic, realistic visualizations of an area of interest and easily extracting 3D features from LiDAR data.

ELTA Systems Ltd., a group and subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries, is one of Israel's leading Defense Electronics companies and a global leader in a variety of areas.
ELTA Systems' products are designed for Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR), Early Warning and Control, Homeland Security (HLS), Self-Protection and Self-Defense, and Fire Control applications.
ELTA Systems has a variety of unique technological excellence centers, as well as exclusive facilities and national infrastructures.
ELTA operates a worldwide marketing network, which also includes customer service and after-sales support activities.
ELTA's GEO-Spatial Intelligence
The IMINT & RADAR Division has identified Image Intelligence, as one of the core system technologies, in the emerging ISR technology.
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors, airborne, UAV mounted and spaceborne, are the basic radar competence of this division. A broad variety of sensors covering numerous frequency bands with ultra-high resolutions are the bread and butter of this division. Fusing an entire range of sensors into a comprehensive ISR center, for various user levels is another fortee of this division. The indigenous RICENT (Real Time Intelligence Center) concept resulting in ISR centers for any strategic, tactical or operational level is currently marketed worldwide.

Google Earth and Maps for business combine the familiar, interactive Google mapping products with added features designed especially for business users. The recently launched Google Earth Builder enables you to store, manage and share your geospatial data in the cloud with all of your employees or with the public. With both speaking slots and demonstration pods, Google will showcase Earth Builder’s ability to create and share custom Earth and Map layers. Additionally, Google Maps API Premier allows you to add the intuitive and familiar Google Maps to your public website to engage your customers. Incorporating our easy-to-use, interactive maps into your business applications will help employees visualize business data and track mobile assets

Envitia supplies focused solutions for business critical applications found within the defence, government and utilities sectors. We provide customers with a complete end-to-end service, offering specialist consultancy and research in the application of advanced geospatial techniques through to product licensing.

Envitia’s rich software platform enables us to develop geospatial applications capable of integrating, processing, analysing and managing spatial information that includes real-time data, from complex and disparate sources at high speed and with best performance.

Envitia’s success to date is built upon our ability to understand, collect, integrate, process, analyse and manage spatial information from real-time, complex and disparate sources. Through in-depth domain expertise and the ability to design interoperable solutions using open standards and component based technology, Envitia has over 7,000 deployed systems worldwide.

We help our customers to see the world as it really is.

Collins Bartholomew is well known and respected within the Defence sector for its authoritative and accurate world mapping products. All are built and maintained by our dedicated team of geographic experts who continually monitor and authenticate the changes happening in our world. Significant focus is placed on international boundaries which are rigorously checked and verified. First order internal administrative divisions are included for almost all countries and on disputed territories we aim to show what the situation is on the ground, 'de facto', while at the same time making sure to show that there is a dispute, but at all times remaining neutral. We take the greatest of care in assuring the high quality of our data. It is constantly being updated and revised - each week we make approximately 950 changes, amounting to an average of nearly 50,000 each year.

exactEarth Ltd is the leading supplier of global maritime vessel data for maritime domain awareness and operational maritime support solutions. Using world leading space-based AIS (Automatic Identification Systems) detection technology, exactEarth delivers up-to-date information on all vessels worldwide carrying standard AIS transponders. It is the only system of its kind that uses advanced signal processing to de-collide AIS messages, providing the highest quality of vessel detection available today. Capturing significantly more vessels on a single pass than any other space-based system, exactEarth gives customers an unrivalled view of the common maritime picture at a global scale.

exactEarth Ltd. offers fully secure data in a variety of industry standard formats and delivery methods ready for integration into operational maritime, C2 or geospatial intelligence systems.

exactEarth Ltd. is based in Cambridge, Ontario and is supported by an established network of regional offices and technology partners worldwide.

Palantir Technologies is a product-focused, Silicon Valley company that attracts some of the most talented computer scientists in the world, all focused on our product – the Palantir Platform. Our people are dedicated to the mission of providing revolutionary technology platforms to solve the world’s most critical and complex analytical and operational challenges

The current major challenge posed by information technology is that we have become adept at generating massive amounts of data from sensors and reporting – but often we are missing the last critical element: quickly making sense of that vast data for the human decision maker. Palantir is the first full-scale software platform to not only deliver that critical capability, but make it accessible and rapidly shared and analyzed from the company level to theater and beyond.

The Palantir software platform empowers decision makers at every level by giving them unified access to the full information available to make good decisions.

As Precision Intelligence continues to replace Fire and Maneuver across the future battlefield, EMC delivers a family of game-changing technologies to transform Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. As increasing platform constellations and new families of more capable sensors collect unprecedented amounts of data and present spiraling challenges in full motion video storage and real-time analytics, EMC technologies provide new, simple and affordable - answers.

No other company addresses the Intelligence Community’s problems ingesting and analyzing multiple petabytes of data in real time with tools that interact with analysts. No other company can virtualize and secure your network while protecting your data in the cloud with the precision and resource savings EMC provides.

The EMC Solution offers the most cost-efficient path to the cloud, cutting-edge network security and the optimum solution for Big Data Analytics. Visit us at booth # 57 to learn more about the family of EMC game-changing technologies and see how they are transforming Full Motion Video and learn how EMC can assist in your “Journey to the Cloud” and support the ISR mission.

Helyx SIS Ltd

Helyx SIS Ltd is the leading Geospatial Information eXploitation (GIX) consultancy and technology provider offering experience and expertise gained through working with Defence and Security customers in the UK and internationally. GIX delivers enhancement of organisational and operational performance through the improved integration, management and exploitation of business and geospatial information.

Helyx provides advice to organisations in the customer-friend role enabling them to extract maximum benefit from geospatial information. This includes the development of vision and strategy and the analysis of business processes, leading to the delivery of cost effective geospatial solutions across all security levels.

At DGI 2012 Helyx are launching the Helyx GeoSpatial Information Server which deliver a reliable and capable platform able to store, manage and publish geospatial information. 

Visit us at Stand 46 to discuss how we can help you to spatially enable your organisation and exploit your geospatial information.

Skyline Software Systems, Inc.

Skyline Software Systems, Inc. (Herndon, Virginia USA)is the leading provider of 3D earth visualization software and services. The SkylineGlobe software suite offers a comprehensive platform of applications and services that enables creation and dissemination of interactive, photo-realistic 3D environments. Leveraging core competencies of 3D earth visualization, data fusion, terrain analysis and collaboration, SkylineGlobe provides a complete solution to deliver SOA-based, web-enabled, interactive 3D environments. SkylineGlobe supports most open and industry standards for raster, vector and 3D data, including the ability to read directly from local sources, spatial databases and live sources (video, GPS, WMS/WFS, etc.) and is designed to function well in both online and disconnected modes. Skyline implementations have been selected by civil government, military, intelligence and commercial clients across the globe and are supported by a worldwide partner network that integrates Skyline’s solutions into a wide variety of applications including mission planning, command and control, urban planning and facility security.

Inzpire Ltd

Inzpire Ltd, an innovative defence company formed by former military aviators, that is playing a pivotal role in training and equipping the British Armed Forces.

At DGI we are showcasing our IT Systems Division which produces high quality, robust, IT Systems for military aviation users. These highly successful systems are designed by expert military aviators working closely with exceptional IT professionals.

This powerful fusion has resulted in our systems being specifically selected for use in British Army Apache helicopters, and Royal Air Force Typhoon and Tornado aircraft, where they have been combat proven in military operations in Afghanistan and Libya.

We produce a wide range of outstanding products including Electronic Flight Bags, Tactical Reference Devices, Mission Planning Systems, Digital Mapping Systems, Performance Planning Software, Briefing/Debriefing tools and Modeling/Simulation tools.

Everything we make is fully safety certified, mission-enhancing and user-friendly. Designed by aviators for aviators our systems deliver success though excellence.