Mapping Applications
Photographs and videos taken by patrols or reconnaissance units are critical elements of intelligence to the mission debrief and future mission planning processes. Unfortunately, the effort required to integrate these images and videos into electronic maps is extremely difficult and creating an accurate debrief report with the images is a time consuming task that usually requires a ‘best-guess’ as to where, when and by whom the image was taken.
The 500SE-M GPS Tactical Digital Camera overcomes all these shortcomings by embedding the exact MGRS coordinates of where the image was captured directly into the image and video files. Additional information, such as Zulu time, the units ID and/or photographer’s name as well as a voice recording of why the image was captured, is also embedded into the files.
This ‘meta-data’ allows for the files to automatically become hyperlinked points on a tactical map in FalconView, TIGR, GeoRover, Google Earth and ESRI ArcGIS mapping applications. Additionally, the embedded data may be imprinted directly on to the still images, providing a permanent visual record of Who, What, When Where and Why the image was captured.
Mapping