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See everything clearly at the USGIF Industry Technology Day
June 10, Reston, VA
• June is CWID month
• IDELIX participates in Collaborative Operation Planning System (COPlanS) technology demonstration
• IDELIX and OSI announce teaming partnership
• Former CEO and General Manager of Boeing Autometric joins IDELIX Advisory Board
• Smart Maps - Geospatial-intelligence visualization tools speed planning, analysis and collaboration
• Taming the Imaging Data Beast - New tools to manage high volumes of complex imagery
The Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) is quickly approaching, and PDT by IDELIX will be introduced to over 23 participating coalition countries including the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. This year's CWID objectives focus on deployable solutions that address the global war on terrorism. The upcoming trials will introduce first responders, intelligence analysts, military operators and combatant commands to new C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) technologies and interoperability solutions that can be tested and transitioned into operational use within 6-12 months.
Sponsored by the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and backed by Canadian Joint Intelligence Information Management (J2IM), the PDT lens will be featured as a user interface (UI) enhancement, incorporating "focus+context" viewing and JPEG 2000 data streaming techniques to address the growing concern of bandwidth constraints and information overload. PDT will be featured within the Image Access Solutions (IAS) server-client architecture created by RSI [wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Industries Space Systems] and within Black Coral LIVE.
"The CWID exercise provides the missing link between industry and government," says Paul Morin, J2 Information Management Technology Manager for the Canadian Department of National Defence. "It sets the stage for two-way communication and is an example of how crucial it is to introduce warfighters to the cutting edge of technology, and to expose industry to the warfighter in order to best meet the 'NOW' demands."
For more information regarding IDELIX participation in CWID, contact Brad at info@idelix.com.
"One objective of the Air Force Command and Control Information System (AFCCIS) Project is to provide commanders with the necessary tools they need to plan and make decisions; COPlanS is a good example of the effort to exploit new technologies in order to reach that goal. Technologies such as Pliable Display Technology (PDT) by IDELIX further add to the vision. PDT is an enabling technology that can provide enhanced functionalities such as detailed mapping, imagery and target analysis all within an operational context. PDT can also provide improved 2D and 3D visualization capabilities which contribute to better situational awareness and planning effectiveness."
- Neil Knapp, AFCCIS Project Director
"The partnership between IDELIX and OSI has been strongly customer driven. As live track and sensor information from sources such as UAVs becomes more accessible, the need for advanced visualization technologies to combat information overload and perform tasks such as change detection is increasing. Integrating PDT into OSI's client-side tools will increase situational awareness capability for the defense and intelligence community. We believe that PDT is a great enhancement to our COP [Common Operating Picture] products."
- Andrew Carniel, OSI Vice-President, Business Development
"The innovation that IDELIX has demonstrated through various integration projects and product development efforts has caught the attention of the intelligence community. The efficiencies and data exploitation improvements created by Pliable Display Technology make it a natural fit for soft copy imagery search applications, and introduces a much needed face lift to the user interfaces that exist within the government's legacy systems today."
- Christopher Haakon
Charles Dervarics discusses how geospatial-intelligence visualization tools speed planning, analysis and collaboration in the March 2005 issue of C4ISR New technologies and techniques for managing increasing volumes of imagery data are explored by Larry Adams in the April 2005 issue of Advanced Imaging- change detection
- battle damage assessment
- situational awareness in the battlefield
- tactical communication and collaboration
- targeting via forward observation for artillery
- feature extraction
During the Industry Technology Day, the USGIF Technical Committee will also be holding scenario-based technology demonstrations, showcasing interoperable standards-based commercial-off-the-shelf geospatial tools. See how these capabilities can be coupled with other commercial applications and tools to transform the ways in which GEOINT is "plug-N-play" integrated and used by the partners and stakeholders of the NGA's National System for Geospatial Intelligence.
For more information on the Industry Technology Day, or to schedule an appointment for your own personal demonstration, contact Brad at info@idelix.com.
From an end-user perspective, the new lens control will provide "just enough" visual cues to make it easy to view and interact with the lens. This new interface will be particularly useful for users of the new IDELIX line focus lenses, also to be included in the upcoming SDK.
The new lens controls also provide greater ease of PDT integration for developers, collapsing painter and control classes into one general-purpose control class that makes use of a vector painting module. The new SDK will also continue to support COM/.NET though the PDTfi (Facilitation Interface) classes.
"The new PDT User Interface is an example of our determination to continuously improve the experience of developers working with the PDT SDK and the interaction of end users with the applications of our OEM and software vendor partners," says Garth Shoemaker, IDELIX Director of Research. "From a developer's perspective, the structure of the UI has been greatly simplified and more tightly integrated with our cross-platform rendering system. More importantly, from an end user's perspective, the graphical presentation of the controls has been simplified, further enhancing data analysis."
The new SDK will also include all the functionality of the previous version, such as focus+context magnification, editing through a lens, support of scale dependent rendering functionality, single and multiple lens capabilities, real-time lens controls and more. In addition, the SDK will also continue to support COM/.NET though the PDTfi (Facilitation Interface) classes.
For more information on the new UI, Line Focus Lenses and Version 4.0 of the PDT C++ SDK, contact info@idelix.com. For information on IDELIX Professional Services, contact proservices@idelix.com.
2) Purchase directly through the following list of US federal government contracts:
A preprint of "Efficient Eye Pointing With a Fisheye Lens" paper can be found on Andrew Duchowski's web site, and the camera-ready copy will soon be made available on the Graphics Interface website.
For more information on this or other IDELIX research, or if you are a researcher at an academic institution and think your work might benefit from PDT, contact Garth at partners@idelix.com.
Ottawa, ON: April 14-15 - IDELIX challenged visitors at CANSEC, Canada's National Security Technology Showcase, to
think beyond conventional visualization tools, and to discover how Pliable Display Technology could advance the
existing user interfaces and data fusion techniques available in software products today. The CDIA sponsored event
attracted approximately 6000 people.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) showcased a PDT-enabled DiamondTouch touch table display. Government and industry representatives alike were impressed by the multi-user, "hands-on approach" to the sharing of geospatial and imagery intelligence data.
Pliable Display Technology by IDELIX was also integrated in software applications featured by:
- Black Coral Inc. - Black Coral LIVE
- Research Systems Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Industries Space Systems) - Image Access Solutions server/client architecture
- Paragon Imaging - ELT 5500
If you did not have a chance to See everything clearly at the IDELIX booth in Ottawa, contact info@idelix.com to arrange for a personal demonstration.
After returning from CANSEC, IDELIX Marketing & Communications Manager, Brad Zaytsoff, decided to take full advantage of the snow and sun on a local Vancouver ski hill. Not minding weather channel (and snappy pop song) suggestions regarding the benefits of sunscreen, the sun made quick work of Brad, as seen through a PDT lens...
| Date | Event | Location | Contact |
| May 9-11 | Graphics Interface 2005 | Victoria, BC | partners@idelix.com |
| June 6-23 | Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) 2005 | USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand - various locations | info@idelix.com |
| June 10, 2005 | USGIF Technology Day | Reston, VA | info@idelix.com |
IDELIX, the IDELIX Logo, Pliable Display Technology, and PDT are registered trademarks of IDELIX Software Inc. in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, and/or other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. Pliable Display Technology is protected by US Patents 6,727,910; 6,768,497; 6,798,412. Other patents pending.
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