Canada, 24 April 2007: GCS Research and Valtus Imagery Services announced a strategic partnership involving a custom integration of GeoMarc for Valtus’ diverse and expanding imagery storage, management and delivery products. GCS Research will be working closely with the Valtus team to integrate GeoMarc server solutions for on-demand geospatial digital watermarking.
Under the partnership, GCS Research will work with Valtus to introduce geospatial digital watermarking functionality into the imagery solutions provided by Valtus, which is a Division of North West Geomatic Ltd. These solutions will be integrated with the Valtus data servers and will provide extended copyright, linking, and advanced metadata capability for Valtus’ customers.
The scenario was designed to leverage Valtus’ imagery web services, advanced geodatabase editing, and on-demand watermarking to provide real-time situational awareness via a Web-based client application. GeoMarc allowed the users of the system to quickly add value to Valtus imagery, package response-oriented GEOINT and CONOPS, and share these data quickly to emergency responders looking to understand the spatial and non-spatial components of the event.
GCS Research and Valtus developed the scenario as a demonstration of joint interoperability and capability, and presented the live demonstration in the ESRI Defense Showcase for national and homeland security customers. The successful outcome of this demonstration provided a technical pathway for integration, a means to illustrate server-centric GeoMarc solutions for instantaneous value-add to Valtus imagery web services, and the foundation for the strategic partnership.
GCS Research is a rpovider of geospatial information technology. It delivers a selected group of products and services that allow their customers to organize, protect, visualize, analyze, and share geospatial information across the enterprise.
Valtus Imagery Services is a Geospatial Storage Service Provider delivering imagery its online library. Valtus’ technology utilizes open GIS protocols to allow high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery to be stored, managed and viewed instantly through a web-mapping application.
