Laser-Scan is preparing to demonstrate its capabilities in the world of interoperable systems.
The company is taking part in the OpenGIS Consortium (OGC) Military Pilot Project, Phase 1 (MPP-1), which culminates in a full-scale demonstration on February 15th 2002.
The aim of the project is to test and exercise newly developed OGC specifications in a near-operational user environment. Laser-Scan will be showing that its software is interoperable with that of other vendors, enabled by interfaces that implement OpenGIS Specifications.
MPP-1 exercises many of the open interfaces developed previously in OGC’s Web Mapping Testbeds, interfaces which are already enabling interoperability among recently released commercial products. Laser-Scan is deploying its Web Map Server (WMS) and its extended Transactional Web Feature Server (WFS-T) together with its Feature Server Client. The WFS-T specification has been extended within the MPP-1 particularly in support of Value-Added
transactions, such as Schema extension. Laser-Scan is also deploying these capabilities in the ongoing Open Web Services (OWS-1) Testbed.
In MPP-1, users will be accessing online intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance data sources via restricted access intranets and the Internet. The types of data include urban terrain features, image base maps, multi-spectral imagery, NIMA Foundation Data, raster maps, lines of
communication and obstacles, topography, image annotations, weather information, sensor data from a variety of sources, dynamic fused views, Web-based perspective views, and custom, user-generated data.
