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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.

Click here to listen to the SAR podcast

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).

For more information click here.

To register for the online workshop click here.

 

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.com

10.23.2007 – 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.