Tag Archives: interoperability

Image Analysis: Making the Most of Your Time at the Shore

If hand digitizing geographic features is the bane of a GIS technician’s existence, tasking someone to manually delineate ephemeral features of say, the banks of the Mississippi River, is downright inhumane.  But someone has to do it; maintaining accurate extents … Continue reading

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ENVI Geoservices and ArcGIS® Online – A New Paradigm for Image Analytics

The development and release of ArcGIS® Online by Esri® ushered in a new era of GIS access and availability. ArcGIS Online allows organizations and individuals to manage and display their map data on the internet via an easy-to-use interface. This … Continue reading

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Benefits of The Geospatial Platform – What the Federal Geographic Data Committee Knows

The term ‘Geospatial Platform’ has been tossed around for several years now. It denotes a set of services that provide a single resource for managing, visualizing, and analyzing geospatial data. It also implies a certain level of interoperability with other … Continue reading

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Sequestration & the Advantage of COTS Software

In recent years, remotely-sensed data and easy-to-use geospatial analysis tools have become more widely available.  This increased access  has increased our nation’s ability to accurately perform complex target and change detection processes and support  the war fighter community and natural … Continue reading

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ArcGIS® and ENVI Interoperability Tips

What does it look like when you combine the raw power of two of the industry’s leading software platforms into one giant super-tool? In my mind, not unlike a cartoon episode where all of the heroes’ respective vehicles combine into one … Continue reading

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Anatomy of an App…or “Just the Tip of the Iceberg”

My bank likes it when I spend money. All the cash flowing in and out of their pockets translates into revenue for them. My bank also likes to help me spend my money, and has created a fancy ‘App’ to … Continue reading

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Leveraging the Enterprise for Rapid Technology Insertion

Like many of my colleagues, I am packing my bags and heading to Orlando for the 2012 GEOINT Symposium.  In fact, I’ll be at the show by the time this posting goes live. While getting things organized to go, I … Continue reading

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Interoperability is on the loose at GEOINT!

Since my last post I’ve been busy building online image analytics for demonstration by Exelis VIS and our partners at the GEOINT 2012 Symposium. GEOINT takes place October 8-11 in Orlando, Florida and promises to focus on the evolution of … Continue reading

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Everything Old is New Again

The title isn’t referring to the classic Peter Allen song, bell bottoms, or platform shoes with my title, but trends in technology.  For example, I’ve noticed recently that what had been called Enterprise technologies is now called Cloud.  A few … Continue reading

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Achieving Interoperability

I’ve noticed that the priority of interoperability as a requirement for software applications and systems has been increasing over the past couple of years.  This goes hand-in-hand with the shift we’re seeing many organizations make from desktop-oriented environments to Cloud, … Continue reading

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