Geospatial Intelligence: The “Safe” Way
The intelligence, defence and law enforcement communities increasingly rely on geospatial intelligence in today’s world of evolving terror threats, theatres of war, natural disasters and civil unrest.
The ability of GIS to add spatial perspective to any data being analysed or monitored is the key to geo-intelligence. “Data is Power” and a key component that drives any geo-intelligence solution. Thanks to sensors and IoT (Internet of Things), big data is now a reality: the volume, variety and velocity of data coming into any geo-intelligence system continue to reach unprecedented levels.
Geo-intelligence is about timely collection, exploitation and analysis of geospatial data, including sensor data, imagery etc to maximise operational capabilities, assess risk and informed decision-making. “Right Information” at the “Right Time” in the “Right Form”
Many a time, at the critical hour, when the need is for a common operational picture the intelligence agencies end up with GIS interoperability issues not just against GIS file formats but also against real time information from sensors and IoTs. GIS interoperability is the ability to integrate or exchange information between different components of any geospatial (intelligence) solution, even though different agencies are on different GIS platforms and therefore file formats and data models.
GIS interoperability has long been a burning issue in the geo-intelligence community. For years geo-intelligence users and decision makers continue to maintain data locked up in some proprietary format until the gloomy cloud of interoperability issue suddenly snuck out from nowhere and its dark shadow descends over when the nation is under threat or a disaster strikes. A nightmare scenario, but for this digital alchemy: FME from Safe Software Inc., Canada, the industry standard in spatial data transformation technology.
Geo-intelligence community is an always connected world and FME’s data conversion, transformation, integration, validation and migration capabilities can not only empower this community to overcome 325+ CAD/GIS/Database/Web/Sensor file formats and data model barriers but also solve day-to-day data interoperability challenges.
With FME Desktop, FME Server and FME Cloud, keep ahead of evolving sensors or IoT technology and the ever increasing quantity of disparate data types to integrate and instantly make use of urgent intelligence. Increase operational efficiency by removing data integration problems. Build situational awareness by collecting, filtering, and analyzing information from vast data volumes to effectively identify threats and share critical knowledge. Make sense of your sensor data with FME to derive useful, actionable information from sensors with FME's ability to read and process sensor messages, analyze them and identify significant events, then execute appropriate responses to these events, all automatically and in real or near real-time.
FME Server is a complete sensor data processing solution that enables users to productively overcome all of the complications associated with utilizing sensor data. FME technology supports data transformation and integration between JSON, XML and CSV- the most common formats for raw sensor messages - and hundreds of other data types and applications, enabling you to use sensor data effectively with other data and in any system you need. Accomplish complex analysis with sensor networks, alert people and systems of sensor events in real-time, connect to sensor data management platforms and maximize the value of sensor data with FME.
With sensors in your own pockets, no matter whatever be the sensor data or GIS file formats that you handle, the only time GIS interoperability could be fun, is when you make peace with GIS file formats and sensor data using FME!
The ability of GIS to add spatial perspective to any data being analysed or monitored is the key to geo-intelligence. “Data is Power” and a key component that drives any geo-intelligence solution. Thanks to sensors and IoT (Internet of Things), big data is now a reality: the volume, variety and velocity of data coming into any geo-intelligence system continue to reach unprecedented levels.
Geo-intelligence is about timely collection, exploitation and analysis of geospatial data, including sensor data, imagery etc to maximise operational capabilities, assess risk and informed decision-making. “Right Information” at the “Right Time” in the “Right Form”
Many a time, at the critical hour, when the need is for a common operational picture the intelligence agencies end up with GIS interoperability issues not just against GIS file formats but also against real time information from sensors and IoTs. GIS interoperability is the ability to integrate or exchange information between different components of any geospatial (intelligence) solution, even though different agencies are on different GIS platforms and therefore file formats and data models.
GIS interoperability has long been a burning issue in the geo-intelligence community. For years geo-intelligence users and decision makers continue to maintain data locked up in some proprietary format until the gloomy cloud of interoperability issue suddenly snuck out from nowhere and its dark shadow descends over when the nation is under threat or a disaster strikes. A nightmare scenario, but for this digital alchemy: FME from Safe Software Inc., Canada, the industry standard in spatial data transformation technology.
Geo-intelligence community is an always connected world and FME’s data conversion, transformation, integration, validation and migration capabilities can not only empower this community to overcome 325+ CAD/GIS/Database/Web/Sensor file formats and data model barriers but also solve day-to-day data interoperability challenges.
With FME Desktop, FME Server and FME Cloud, keep ahead of evolving sensors or IoT technology and the ever increasing quantity of disparate data types to integrate and instantly make use of urgent intelligence. Increase operational efficiency by removing data integration problems. Build situational awareness by collecting, filtering, and analyzing information from vast data volumes to effectively identify threats and share critical knowledge. Make sense of your sensor data with FME to derive useful, actionable information from sensors with FME's ability to read and process sensor messages, analyze them and identify significant events, then execute appropriate responses to these events, all automatically and in real or near real-time.
FME Server is a complete sensor data processing solution that enables users to productively overcome all of the complications associated with utilizing sensor data. FME technology supports data transformation and integration between JSON, XML and CSV- the most common formats for raw sensor messages - and hundreds of other data types and applications, enabling you to use sensor data effectively with other data and in any system you need. Accomplish complex analysis with sensor networks, alert people and systems of sensor events in real-time, connect to sensor data management platforms and maximize the value of sensor data with FME.
With sensors in your own pockets, no matter whatever be the sensor data or GIS file formats that you handle, the only time GIS interoperability could be fun, is when you make peace with GIS file formats and sensor data using FME!
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