Geospatial Systems, Inc. and Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Announce New Tactical Airborne Mapping & Surveillance (TAMS) System
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Rochester, NY - Geospatial Systems, Inc. (GSI) today announced the development of a new Tactical Airborne Mapping and Surveillance (TAMS) system designed to produce National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) compliant imagery supporting forward area mapping requirements. TAMS is platform agnostic, with a multi-sensor payload capable of in-theater fixed wing, helicopter and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAV/UAS) deployment. GSI and Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging (LGGI) unveiled the TAMS-UAV system at the GEOINT Conference, October 21-24, 2007 in San Antonio, Texas.
GSI and LGGI recently began testing the tactical mapping system, responding to interest in end-to-end sensor software capabilities within the DoD, and specifically by military services responsible for in-theater data collection. The team completed its initial testing of the TAMS system during NGA’s Empire Challenge 2007 (EC’07). During the July 2007 exercises, the team successfully produced numerous NITF compliant image products within hours of the actual mission, from more than a terabyte of raw data.
The TAMS system is built upon GSI’s rugged, metric mapping grade camera line. The plug-and-play camera modules range from 2 Mega Pixel (2MP) High Definition, 11MP, 39MP and Thermal IR metric cameras. The cameras are connected to a small, lightweight controller that stores, processes, compresses and disseminates the map information to a ground station in NITF format.
“Geospatial Systems is pleased to collaborate with Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging on this considerable undertaking. We are excited to use our technology and breadth of products to satisfy the needs of the defense intelligence community,” said Maxime Elbaz, CEO, Geospatial Systems, Inc.
Christopher Tucker, Senior Vice President, National Programs, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging said “Developing this partnership with Geospatial Systems further enables us to address our customer’s priority
mission challenges, with a modular, and rapidly deployable suite of sensors and software”.
About Geospatial Systems, Inc.:
Geospatial Systems, Inc., a Rochester, NY based company, designs and produces premier airborne georeferenced remote sensing systems for commercial and military applications, including mapping, environmental monitoring, homeland security, reconnaissance and persistent surveillance. For more information about Geospatial Systems, or its products and services, call 585-427-8310 or contact us online.
Contact: Tracie L. Spiliotis ; (585) 427-8310
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