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GeoEye and University of Missouri's Center
for Geospatial Intelligence Choose Appistry EAF to Achieve New Levels of
Scalability, Reliability and Agility
ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Appistry, the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric
software, today announced that three leaders in the geospatial
intelligence industry have deployed Appistry Enterprise Application
Fabric (Appistry EAF) as the platform for their geospatial intelligence
applications. GeoEye and the University of Missouri's
Center for Geospatial Intelligence (CGI) have all deployed Appistry EAF
to help them achieve results that were unattainable using traditional
technology approaches.
Appistry, a member of the United States Geospatial Intelligence
Foundation (USGIF), is present at USGIF-sponsored GEOINT Symposium 2006
in booth #732. In partnership with GeoEye and CGI, Appistry will be
demonstrating for conference attendees the respective companies'
fabric-enabled geospatial intelligence applications. Additional
information about these applications is available at Appistry's
online Grid
Computing for Geospatial Intelligence resource center, which can be
found online at http://www.appistry.com/grid-computing-for-geoint.
With national security at stake, the intelligence community is under
constant pressure to turn massive volumes of raw data into actionable
information before a threat becomes a crisis. Appistry EAF provides a "scale
without fail" application environment that
enables intelligence agencies and their non-government suppliers to run
large-scale data-processing applications more quickly, easily and
cost-effectively than previously possible.
"Appistry EAF increases agility, while
allowing agencies and other customers to decrease the cost and
complexity of running current and future intelligence applications,"
said Kevin Haar, Appistry chief executive officer. "For
today's applications, Appistry EAF makes
scalability easy, while ensuring reliability, eliminating proprietary
hardware and slashing operations costs. And Appistry EAF helps
organizations bring tomorrow's applications
from the drawing board or research lab to the analyst desktop more
quickly than ever before. This allows more sophisticated data analyses
to identify more intricate patterns of activity in less time."
GeoEye: Processing Massive Amounts of Image Data Quickly and
Dependably
GeoEye is the leading provider of commercial satellite imagery to the
U.S. military and intelligence community. To serve these customers,
GeoEye processes massive amounts of raw image data through a series of
compute-intensive "ingest"
and "exploitation"
applications. With three earth imaging satellites currently in orbit and
a fourth, higher resolution, satellite soon to launch, these
applications must scale to handle ever-increasing data volumes, and must
be highly reliable to avoid delays in processing the data.
GeoEye chose to implement Appistry EAF in order to better manage the
increasing complexity of application development efforts, escalating
infrastructure costs, hardware obsolescence, and platform rigidity.
Appistry's "scale
without fail" application environment
provides GeoEye with effortless scaling, enhanced reliability, reduced
hardware acquisition and maintenance costs, and greater development
simplicity. As a result, GeoEye is reducing the cost and complexity of
running its applications and increasing its competitive agility.
"Traditional approaches to developing
software applications at the scale required by our business is a growing
challenge for our developers, not to mention the burden on our
pocketbook of buying and operating expensive proprietary hardware,"
said Ray Helmering, VP Photogrammetric Engineering at GeoEye. "Appistry
is providing the solution. By relying on the application fabric to
provide scalability, reliability and manageability, we can leave our
infrastructure concerns behind and focus on providing maximum value to
our customers."
A detailed GeoEye case study is available at www.appistry.com/geospatial/pr.
University of Missouri's Center for
Geospatial Intelligence: Pioneering Geospatial Image Retrieval
The Center for Geospatial Intelligence (CGI) at the University of
Missouri - Columbia is pioneering research
and development into advanced image query and retrieval systems for
geospatial intelligence. Under a grant funded by the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), CGI has developed GeoIRIS, the
Geospatial Information Retrieval & Indexing System. GeoIRIS is unique
among satellite imagery retrieval systems as it is content-based,
allowing the image database to be queried using image content, objects
and features sets, in addition to text-based meta-data.
GeoIRIS makes use of computationally intense feature extraction
algorithms, content-based image retrieval techniques, high-dimensional
indexing structures and several other technologies to provide relevant
retrieval of geospatial intelligence information. CGI selected Appistry
EAF in order to significantly reduce the time it took to process its
entire database. CGI researchers were able to easily deploy GeoIRIS'
existing Linux-based application for object feature extraction to an
application fabric of 25 computers, allowing a dataset that previously
took weeks to process to be delivered in less than 8 hours.
"Our partnership with Appistry has
dramatically increased our team's ability to
quickly process satellite imagery," said Curt
Davis, Ph.D., Croft Distinguished Professor at University of Missouri -
Columbia, and director of its Center for Geospatial Intelligence. "Appistry
EAF also gives us the ability to easily increase our computing
capability using inexpensive computers, which will be of huge value to
us as we bring new datasets online."
About Appistry
Appistry is the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric
software, which IT and engineering organizations use to quickly and
easily deploy large-scale, time-critical applications that are
simultaneously deployable, scalable, manageable and dependable. Appistry
Enterprise Application Fabric (Appistry EAF) is Appistry's flagship
product. Appistry EAF offers the scalability of grid computing, the
broad applicability of application servers and the manageability of
virtualization in one complete solution that runs on affordable
commodity-grade servers. In doing so, Appistry EAF enables customers to
easily deploy and operate applications for "real-time"
analytics, high-performance computing (HPC) and high-volume data
processing, as well as agile web, SOA and enterprise applications.
For more information, visit Appistry online at http://www.appistry.com.
About GeoEye
Headquartered in Dulles, Va., GeoEye is the world's
largest commercial satellite imagery company, delivering the
highest-quality, most accurate imagery and products to better map,
measure, monitor and manage the world. GeoEye was formed as a result of
ORBIMAGE's acquisition of Space Imaging in
January 2006. The company is the premier provider of geospatial data,
information and value-added products for the national security
community, strategic partners, resellers and commercial customers.
GeoEye operates a constellation of three Earth imaging satellites -
OrbView-2, OrbView-3 and IKONOS - and
possesses an international network of more than a dozen regional ground
stations, a robust image archive, and advanced geospatial imagery
processing capabilities that are unmatched in the satellite imagery
industry. Its products are the cornerstone of the remote-sensing
industry enabling a wide array of applications including intelligence
gathering for national security and defense, mapping, local government
planning, and natural resources and environmental monitoring. The
company maintains a comprehensive Quality Management System (QMS) and
has achieved corporate-wide ISO accreditation.
Contacts
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