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10.14.2009 – ERDAS Announces Business Partnership with Observera.
ERDAS and Observera announce a new partnership to develop an integrated solution based on ERDAS APOLLO technology. Observera is integrating the Sensor Model-based Automatic Registration Tool (SMART) registration engine into ERDAS APOLLO, providing another option for delivering registered image products. This solution will augment ERDAS APOLLO'S data provisioning and processing workflow and provide an end-to-end solution for customers that require detailed registration of images.
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10.01.2009 – Visit Observera at one of these geospatial industry events!
- Geotech 2009 Conference, Silver Spring, MD. For more informations click here.
- Booth #440 at the GEOINT 2009 Symposium, San Antonio, TX. For more information click here.
- Booth #435 at the 3rd Annual Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) Worldwide Conference & Exposition, Virginia Beach, VA. For more information click here.
09.25.2009 – Observera to present its LIDAR Vertical Obstruction (VO) Evaluation results at the upcoming ASPRS/MAPPS Fall Conference.
Observera will be presenting a paper at the ASPRS/MAPPS 2009 Specialty Conference in San Antonio, TX on November 16, 2009. The paper, titled “Automated Extraction of Vertical Obstructions from LIDAR data”, will be presented at the conferences Emergency Response/Public Safety Applications track.
More information on the conference can be found here.
09.15.2009 – Observera is hiring!
Observera, Inc., an innovative geospatial company located in Chantilly, Virginia, is seeking an imagery analyst/imagery scientist to support its activities with the federal government. The position(s) will be at an on-site assignment located in Washington, DC. US citizenship and an active TS/SCI Clearance is required.
For more information, contact Observera Recruiting at 800-444-6905 or email us at jobs@observera.com
06.05.2009 – Applications of Commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Workshop a great success.
Today’s Workshop hosted at the Oracle Conference Center in Reston, Virginia , was filled to capacity with government representatives and SAR industry stakeholders. The Workshop, sponsored by Observera, Inc. in conjunction with the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), contained a great deal of information and discussion on the current state of SAR technology. Applications of the technology for the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities were covered as well as a distinguished panel-style discussion that closed out the day.
For more information and links to download Workshop presentations click here.
05.12.2009 – PODCAST: Todd Jamison, Chief Scientist and CEO, Observera, on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Observera's Chief Scientist and CEO, Todd Jamison explains the capabilities of Synthetic Aperture Radar and its commercial uses for the Defense, Intelligence and Homeland Security communities. In addition, the recent DoD announcment of the Space Radar program losing its funding inspires commercial SAR providers to augment its defense capability.
05.01.2009 – USGIF Announces Inaugural Workshop Series: Applications of Commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) in cooperation with Observera, Inc., will convene the first of its USGIF Workshop Series with a day-long event examining the Applications of Commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).
02.17.2009 – Student uses Genie Pro® in Science Fair and wins
Devan Weismiller wins 1st Place in the computer science category of the Freedom High School Science Fair for a project she created using Genie Pro®. Observera congratulates Devan on a job well done.
01.23.2009 – Observera showcases website redesign
Observera is proud to present the redesign of our website. It features new graphics, updated information, and a more user-friendly layout.
10.27.2008 – Observera announces its newest product, Continuum™
This innovative combination of Google Maps and the programming skills of the analysts at Observera has resulted in an easy to use, web-based, interactive tool for spatial-temporal analysis. The program effortlessly integrates the data gathered from computer spreadsheets and places the information into the Continuum™ timeline, locating and recording where and when the events occurred.05.14.2008 – Observera releases Genie Pro® 2.0
Observera recently released Genie Pro® for commercial sale. Developed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Genie Pro® can be used in applications such as automated feature detection, broad area search, land cover/land use classification and other forms of automated or semi-automated image analysis.03.08.2008 – Observera ceases distribution of RAVEN View™
Originally released in July of 2001, this software provided the capability to turn video into other useful products, such as still image mosaics, dynamic mosaics, georeferenced video and updated image-maps. Existing users of RAVEN View™ 2.0 - If you have purchased RAVEN View™ 2.0, Observera will continue to offer technical support indefinitely. This support will NOT include any revisions to the software. For technical support, call (703) 378-3153 or email support@observera.com10.23.2007 – Observera licenses Genie Pro®
This automated feature extraction and search technology was licensed from Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), which operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for the Department of Energy. Genie Pro® can be used to discover complex spatial-spectral signatures for a number of applications, such as automated feature detection, broad area search, land cover/land use classification and other types of automated or semi-automated image analysis.