Origion 2000 supercomputer processes IKONOS satellite images

 Mountain Views 12 Oct 99 Space Imaging has selected SGI to provide workstations and servers for its earth stations and training centers. According to Space Imaging, it will recommend SGI systems to customers because the products are superior in handling high-resolution earth imagery produced by IKONOS - the world’s first satellite to provide unclassified, one-meter resolution imagery to the general public.

The first “one-meter” image from IKONOS, is being displayed in a special presentation in Denver, Colorado using SGI computers running Space Imaging’s CARTERRA Analyst software application.

One-meter resolution imagery enables customers to see objects on the Earth’s surface as small as three feet across. SGI systems will process IKONOS imagery used for a variety of commercial market applications that include urban planning, environmental monitoring, mapping, natural disaster assessment, telecommunications network planning, oil and gas exploration, agricultural monitoring and for markets that include news reporting, virtual travel and personal navigation.

Space Imaging uses SGI Origin 2000 server, Silicon Graphics® Onyx2 workstation and SGI GroupStation (comprised of an SGI Origin 2000 server and Silicon Graphics® InfiniteReality® graphics subsystems) products, among others, to optimize its satellite ground station processing, archiving, production and data analysis and quality control functions. SGI systems have also been incorporated into Space Imaging’s imagery exploitation training program - the Global Imagery Training consortium.

SGI workstations will also create three-dimensional fly-throughs and multi-source data sets from IKONOS output and data overlays (e.g. street names, county names, zip codes and other geographic labels).

Space Imaging is a leading supplier of space imagery, aerial photography, mapping services, and derivative geographic information products and services. Space Imaging supplies these products and services to commercial, government and consumer users worldwide.

 

Ad Emmen

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