SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman is displaying high-tech geospatial defense systems at a conference in San Antonio this week.
The company said in a statement that it was putting on show "solutions to support national security and defense ... at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation's GEOINT 2007 Symposium."
The symposium started Sunday and will continue through Wednesday at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center in San Antonio.
"New this year, Northrop Grumman will launch the Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit -- CJMTK -- Geospatial Appliance," the company said.
"The CJMTK Geospatial Appliance combines National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -- NGA -- unclassified domestic and international products and commercial software, providing application-ready data for developers and end users of geospatial information. The product enables access to a complete set of worldwide geospatial information used for supporting command-and-control, emergency operations, humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution, intelligence and special operations, and other defense-related activities," Northrop Grumman said.
The company said it was also putting on show its PULSENet standards-compliant architecture and software "to support a global sensor network, enabling discovery, access, tasking and alerting for globally dispersed, heterogeneous sensors" and its Geospatial Semantic Web "that uses traditional data operations and next generation geospatial intelligence to retrieve and reason multiple geospatial data sources."
Northrop Grumman said it was also displaying its "geospatial research and development programs that focus on creating innovative solutions for architectures, tools and technologies to support geospatial intelligence. Programs include the Framework for Geospatial Visualization and the Service Oriented Architecture Foundation for Geospatial Services."
The company said other products being displayed included "measurement and signal intelligence and general intelligence capabilities that provide support to the operational, arms control and treaty monitoring, acquisition policy, scientific and technical intelligence communities, and to national defense policy makers."
Northrop Grumman said its Automated Conflation Service on display at the symposium "unifies multiple separate databases of digital feature data -- vector geometry and attribution -- determining and reconciling commonality -- despite differing appearances -- into one integrated reference source."
