Table of Contents - HUNAGI

World Wind DoD Apps 

Table of Contents 

Wednesday, October 3 

1. MITRE Corporation: NGA Content Into World Wind 

2. DISA, Agile Client: Global Command & Control System-Joint (GCCS-J) 

3. DOE NNSA: RaptorX 

4. Intelesense: InteleView: Real-time data, anytime-anywhere 

5. Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC): Key to Communication: Standardized Data Access 

6. U.S. Army & General Dynamics, GDC4S: Command Post of the Future 

7. U.S. Navy: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division 

8. DOE Oak Ridge National Lab: iGlobe: Weather in World Wind 

9. NASA & Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT): World Wind Android 

10. DiSTI - F16 Simulator: Fully Instrumented with Flight Dynamics 

11. DISA MIL-STD 2525D – NATO APP-6C: Symbology Standards Management Committee 

12. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA High Availability Data Container Services 

13. UTC Aerospace / Goodrich: UAV Ground Control Station (GCS) 

14. John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab: Satellite Vulnerability Assessment Tool 

15. Air Force Research Labs, Wright Patterson: Pursuer: Multi-Sensor Data – All-In-One GUI 

16. Air Force Research Labs, Primordial: Tentacle: 3D Immersive Surveillance System 

17. FutureTek LLC / Ticom Geomatics Inc.: Sensor System for Identifying RF Emitters 

18. WXOps – Hawaiian Airlines: Managing Commercial Aviation Operations 

19. QinetiQ-NA - Terramenta: Open Foundation for Adding WW Functionality

Feeding World Wind/Agile Client with NGA Content 

Xander Enzmann, MITRE Corporation 

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provides a large amount of content 

for use in Command and Control planning and execution. This presentation will 

describe how much of that information can be processed and used in an efficient way by 

World Wind in connected and disconnected environments. The AgileClient framework 

from DISA is used as the presentation framework that houses World Wind. 

The delivery of NGA provided content can take 

many forms: OGC services such as WMS; KML 

overlays; raster images (JPEG2000, MrSID, RPF); 

vector files (ESRI Shapefiles, VPF), … Content can 

be stored in a number of different ways with choices 

dependent on how much is needed, bandwidth and 

processor considerations, … In addition to raw 

content, map services can be a filter/transformation 

engine for local and external MCG&I services. 

The environments in which this content is needed 

range from globally connected force level systems 

to small enclaves to individual planners. There are 

many FOSS spatial processing libraries (e.g., OGDI, 

GDAL), spatially aware databases such as 

Postgres/PostGIS, and caching tools. Using these, 

NGA content can be managed, processed, and made 

available to a planner as selectable layers for display. This presentation will briefly 

describe the tools and techniques that can be applied to this end. 

xander@mitre.org

Agile Client 

GCCS-J Collaboration in 3D 

Agile Client is a Command and Control (C2) application providing a common operational picture in 3D. 

• Agile Client is an independently accredited C2 application, currently fielded and used by the 

combatant commands and the AOC. 

• Uses World Wind to render an advanced 3-D model of the world. As an open source library, 

Agile Client plug-ins can take advantage of the many tools available within World Wind. 

• A modular rich-client application built using the Oracle NetBeans rich client framework 

provides for easily extensible adaptability and advanced design. 

• Numerous plug-ins developed using the Agile Client/World Wind SDK. Agile Client apps can 

use DISA’s streamlined accreditation process to support a wide variety of missions and users. 

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Agile Client: 

- Subscribes to data services in an agile 

manner. 

- Uses existing business logic on top of 

COTS whenever possible. 

- Works in both connected and 

disconnected environments. 

- Content delivery system positions 

data on the network and maximizes 

application memory. 

Agile Client includes functionality for: 

- Real time chat & geo-collaboration leveraging 

open standards used by DCO, Facebook, and 

Google Talk. 

- The MIL-STD 2525 based plot management 

framework supporting a highly scalable 

infrastructure for common filtering, plot 

controls and time-projection algorithms 

- Application framework for placing menu items 

and organizing application binaries. 

Forge.Mil Project: https://software.forge.mil/sf/projects/agile_client 

Sal.Cardinale@ngc.com , Agile Client Lead Developer, Northrop Grumman

3D C4ISR 

Computer-based 

Command 

Control 

Communications 

Intelligence 

Surveillance 

Reconnaissance 

Fully Extensible 

Open API 

Plug-in driven 

Developer training and conferences 

Customized to your mission requirements 

Community Driven 

Open API 

Conferences and training 

Benefit from other people’s innovation 

Share your additions as you see fit 

Free! 

100% Free 

Government Use Only 

Nolicensing 

No maintenance costs 

Only pay for your additions 

RaptorX is available to the US Government Intelligence Community and their contractors only. 

To obtain a copy of RaptorX, please contact: Jay Nance, Software Manager at NanceJA@nv.doe.gov

Advanced Sensors, Data Integration, Visualization and Collaboration 

for Force Health Protection and Situational Awareness 

Kevin Montgomery, CEO Intelesense.com 

Our goal is to provide real-time multimodal data from the field, integrated with multiple 

data sources for system delivering continual situational awareness and collaboration. 

Intelesense has been developing, deploying 

and improving an integrated suite of ISR 

sensor technologies across DoD operations 

for medical and environmental data. 

This is accomplished via a secure online 

Portal using plug-and-play modular 

architecture for real-time data acquisition, 

transmission, integration, analysis and 

display. This data comes together in a 

collaborative framework providing a ‘live’ 

stream for highly informed decision support. 

Supported devices include a suite of medical and environmental sensors that have been 

field tested and made operational. The devices and their integration system are deployed 

worldwide for a number of operations, including Disaster Response, Border Patrol and 

Personnel Exposure Management. This presentation will include results of requirements 

analysis serving operational needs for DOD, DHS and other government partners. 

We will include a live 

demo of the immediate 

access to sensors 

distributed worldwide. 

Technology resulting 

from this extraordinary 

access to remote 

conditions has provided 

new opportunities for 

telemedicine, 

environmental sensing 

and dramatically 

enhanced situational 

awareness. 

Kevin Montgomery Ph.D. is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University, 

a Portfolio Manager with TATRC (US Army MRMC) and an advisor to the Air Force Office of Modernization (AFMSA).

A Unique Organization 

Offering Unique Benefits 

Geospatial technologies play an important role in business, government, and research 

applications and workflows. However, the benefits of using these technologies are often 

limited by the inability to effectively share information. To address this problem, 

government, private sector, and academic organizations use the OGC consensus process 

to cooperatively define, develop, test, document, validate and approve interface and 

encoding standards and best practices that solve interoperability problems. 

With more than 400 member organizations worldwide, the Open Geospatial Consortium 

(OGC) is the leading organization for developing and maintaining international 

geospatial and location standards. The OGC is a not-for-profit voluntary consensus 

standards organization whose standards enable interoperability and seamless integration 

of location information, geoprocessing software, and geospatial services. 

Benefits for Technology and Content Providers 

Technology and content providers collaborate in the OGC because they recognize that 

lack of interoperability is a bottleneck that slows market expansion. They know that 

interoperability enabled by open standards positions them to both compete more 

effectively in the marketplace and to seek new market opportunities. 

In the OGC, technology and content provider members: 

• Position themselves early to influence definition of new open standards. 

• Reduce costs through cooperative standards development with other OGC 

members. 

• Shorten time to market by using OGC standards rather than custom interfaces. 

• Develop standards that help them enter new markets and find new customers 

because of "plug and play". 

• Forum for discussing industry issues and solving shared problems. 

• Customer relationships and business partnerships. 

• Deliver solutions more quickly and at lower cost. 

• Develop standards that help mobilize a range of products across open interfaces, 

rather than performing resource intensive custom integration. 

• Provide precise solutions to meet specific needs, solutions that plug-and-play. 

Nadine Alameh 

Director, Interoperability Programs 

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) 

nalameh@opengeospatial.org 

Phone: +703 501 3074

General Dynamics C4 Systems: Command Post of the Future (CPOF) 

www.gdc4s.com/CPOF 

Eric Gardner, Eric.Gardner@gdc4s.com 

Gerard Tria, gerard.tria@us.army.mil 

In partnership with the U.S. Army and PM Mission Command, General Dynamics C4 Systems 

is fielding a state-of-the-art visualization and collaboration system to today’s warfighters 

worldwide. Command Post of the Future (CPOF) is an executive-level system providing 

situational awareness and collaborative tools to support decision-making. The system can be 

tailored to show specific visualizations and fit user needs across all warfighting functions and 

organizations from Corps to Battalion. This tool suite uses General Dynamics’ CoMotion® 

technology. CoMotion provides information analysis, visualization and collaboration in a 

single, integrated environment that ultimately helps commanders and decision-makers make 

sense of information, share thoughts, evaluate courses of action and monitor their execution. 

• CPOF creates a rich multi-perspective and shared operational picture. 

• CPOF supports distributed and collaborative planning, whether for rehearsal or execution, 

allowing the Commander to command the battlefield from anywhere. 

CPOF's greatest strength is its consistent, easy-to-use information-centric interface. 

The key design concepts are: 

• Composability - Warfighters can access, view, and tune individual data elements, 

visualizations, and composite work products yielding a user-defined operational picture. 

• Next-Generation Collaboration – From disparate locations, commanders and staff can 

naturally work together to generate, share and evaluate Courses of Action (COAs), 

Operation Orders, Commanders Orders and more. Every visualization and work product in 

CPOF is collaborative from the moment the system is turned on. The always-on sharing 

supports self-synchronization, which minimizes interruptions and allows the commander 

and staff to manage, maintain and share their C2 resources and expertise. 

• Visualization - Users work with live operational data that moves easily across 

visualization products, automatically taking the appropriate form (geospatial, temporal, 

textual, etc). This “liquid information” allows each user to display information the way he 

or she thinks about it.

Maestro in World Wind: Modeling and Simulation 

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) 

Clinton.Winfrey@navy.mil 

Through recent R&D efforts, NSWCDD has prototyped a tool that allows for easy 

implementation of the DEVS modeling and simulation formalism. 

Discrete Event System Specification, is a modular and hierarchical 

formalism for modeling and analyzing general systems that can be 

discrete event systems. These may be described by state transition 

tables and continuous state systems which themselves may be described 

by differential equations, and hybrid continuous state and discrete event 

systems. DEVS is a timed event system. The DEVS formalism was 

invented by Dr. Bernard Ziegler, University of Arizona. 

In one implementation, we use World Wind to visually display the environment. 

Model, experimental, and simulation frames can all be developed separately via the 

methods used in this approach.

iGlobe: Bringing Weather and Climate to a 3D Globe 

Varun Chandola, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 

The growing understanding of changing climate and its impact on the environment and society has 

propelled heavy research investment in the area of climate modeling resulting in sophisticated 

models that can capture multitudes of scenarios and produce realistic forecasts at decadal and 

century scales and produce simulation outputs which are valuable data sources for understanding 

climate change impacts. 

At the same time, path breaking advances in remote 

sensing technology has enabled measuring and 

storing weather data at an unprecedented rate. 

The dense scientific format in which such climate 

and weather data is stored, NetCDF and HDF, makes 

it a challenge to visualize as geospatial data in 4D 

environments such as NASA WorldWind and Google 

Earth, where they truly belong for effective 

visualization and analysis in concert with traditional 

geospatial data sets, such as terrain, infrastructure, demographics, and other data. 

The Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) group at Oak Ridge National 

Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and 

Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), University Corporation 

for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and University of Kansas has 

developed iGlobe, an open source desktop application that puts 

climate research and weather data in a 3D globe where it can be 

visualized and analyzed with other geospatial data. 

iGlobe is based on NASA World Wind with significant 

enhancements to ingest climate model outputs (i.e., NetCDF files) 

and display them on a 3D globe. The application is capable of 

handling complex visualizations such as time varying animations, 

elevations, and vector field rendering. 

The analytic core of iGlobe allows users to interact with the 

different data sets using sophisticated data analysis tools to 

perform complex operations such as anomaly detection, 

spatiotemporal change detection, signal analysis, and connected 

component detection that all take place on the ‘back-end’ server. 

The server-side analysis component of iGlobe allows analysis on 

high-end servers with the results visualized on the client. Since the 

analysis outputs are typically magnitudes smaller than the original 

data sets, the burden on network resources is minimized. 

chandolav@ornl.gov

TAIGA 

Traffic and Atmospheric Information for General Aviation 

Alaska offers a combination of difficult flying conditions and a heavy dependence upon 

aviation to support its way of life. The result is a sobering set of statistics describing a 

disproportionate number of aviation accidents and fatalities compared to the lower 48 states. 

TAIGA is a joint venture between NASA Ames Research Center and the State of Alaska to 

help pilots make better decisions before and during flight. We will accomplish this by 

building a system customized to the needs of Alaskan flights. This involves building 

communication systems, collecting appropriate data, delivering data to the cockpit, and 

visualizing that data in a useful way. For this last goal, we will use the Android platform and 

NASA World Wind. The data in question will include weather, traffic, and volcanic activity 

amongst others. 

We have developed an initial desktop 

demonstration of the visualization to 

appear on an Android tablet. Work 

has begun porting World Wind to the 

Android platform. 

The code resulting from this work 

will be made available as open 

source. It is hoped this will spur 

further Android/World Wind projects 

in the future. 

The most dangerous work site in Alaska is a 

small plane and the fatality rate for Alaska 

pilots (General Aviation & Commercial) 

is five times greater than the rate for all 

US pilots. 

- Alaska Aviation Safety Project citing FAA statistics 

To reduce occupational fatalities resulting 

from aircraft crashes in the state, safety 

interventions should focus on providing 

weather and other flight information to 

increase pilots’ situational awareness… and 

expanding the infrastructure used by pilots 

to fly by instruments. 

- CDC report on Alaskan occupational fatalities 

Contact Joseph.L.Rios@nasa.gov for more information

DiSTI’s GL Studio and World Wind Integration 

www.disti.com 

Ben Ellis, bellis@disti.com 

DiSTI is a leading provider of advanced graphical interface technology used to empower 

Human Machine Interface (HMI) development and virtual maintenance training. DiSTI’s 

flagship product, GL Studio, is a graphical development tool, laid out similar to Photoshop, that 

enables users to build and integrate high fidelity and feature rich 2D and 3D applications, 

enhancing levels of realism and sophistication. 

GL Studio enables the creation of 2D and 3D geometry in real time through a WYSIWYG 

environment, alleviating the need to write cumbersome OpenGL code. The GL Studio Editor 

features include basic tools for drawing, grouping, ordering and texturing. 

Fully instrumented F-16 

with F-16 flight dynamics. 

Fly there before and after: 

• Mission planning 

• Mission debriefing 

• Training 

Designs are implemented 

using the GL Studio 

Runtime Engine. This 

allows for real-time 

design and deployment. 

GL Studio’s Java code generator produces pure 

Java code compatible with any operating 

system utilizing the Java Runtime Environment 

(JRE). 

GL Studio products easily integrate with 

NASA World Wind to create applications for 

high fidelity graphical instrumentation overlays 

suitable for: 

• Simulators, 

• UAV control stations, and 

• Telemetry visualization, etc.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 

World Wind in the Cloud 

October 2012 

Adrian Gardner, Chief Information Officer,

Ground 

Control 

Station 

(GCS) 

Ground Control Station (GCS) is an intuitive, mission-centric user interface for Small 

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) users and only requires a minimal number of operator 

actions to perform any task. GCS utilizes a tablet/smartphone-style gesture based interface, 

where only 1-2 clicks are required for most mission planning and mission execution tasks. 

There is a high level of automation designed into the software, resulting in rapid flight mission 

planning both during pre-flight and inflight operations. The GCS software can operate multiple 

small UAVs at once through an intuitive mission management system. 

GCS is interoperable with the NATO 

standard open architecture and is 

compatible with STANAG 4586 for 

command and control of air vehicles, 

payloads, and data links, as well as 

STANAG 4609 for payload products. 

GCS utilizes high resolution terrain data 

during flight-planning to prevent terrain 

incursion and ensure line-of-sight. 

The service-oriented architecture supports rapid integration of third party subsystem solutions 

and features an IP-based communications architecture facilitating simple integration with IP 

enabled services such as Payload Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) services or external 

mission planning systems, as well as simple injection of external data objects such as friendlyforce 

location data and dissemination of payload and/or mission data over Ethernet networks. 

Jaya.Kokotovich@utas.utc.com

Satellite Vulnerability Assessment Tool 

Nigel.Tzeng@jhuapl.edu 

Ensuring the health and safety of satellites is a primary component of any satellite 

operations center. To this end, there is a need to reduce the manual effort and time 

required to monitor and respond to satellites through enhanced automated services. 

Being able to visualize this information in its actual geospatial context allows 

immediate understanding of the issues involved affording intelligent and effective 

response. NASA World Wind, a fully extendable 3D geospatial visualization 

technology provides the interface for compelling delivery of satellites’ status and 

environment. 

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) has 

extensive experience incorporating technologies into the NASA World Wind 

visualization platform, to create a dynamic environment for Situational Awareness 

that will prove invaluable to government and commerce.

TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES 

Pursuing Multisensor GUI Advances 

AFRL-developed Pursuer technology provides users a graphical user interface for assimilating multisensor imagery and 

metadata for review in one composite display. (AFRL image) 

AFRL sensors scientists have developed 

a graphical user interface (GUI) capable 

of assimilating wide-area motion imagery, 

ground-based sensor data, and narrow-fieldof-view 

sensor overlays for review in one 

composite display composed of multisensor 

imagery and associated metadata. 

Dubbed Pursuer, the technology builds 

upon the National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration’s (NASA) World Wind Java, a 

software engine that overlays NASA and US 

Geological Survey satellite imagery, aerial 

photography, topographic maps, and publicly 

available geographical information system 

data on three-dimensional models of earth 

and other planets. Accordingly, AFRL’s 

Pursuer provides a time model that enables 

users to step through a collection of sensor 

data in a “TiVo-like” (i.e., digital-videorecording-type) 

capacity. The technology also 

incorporates a variety of additional tools—such 

as frame-to-frame stabilization, brightness/ 

contrast adjustment, user markup annotation, 

screen capture, distance calculator, manual 

tracking, and movie creation—enabling users 

to exploit the captured sensor data to the 

fullest possible extent. 

AFRL is working to further develop Pursuer 

by hosting the product in a collaborative 

software environment known as Forge.mil. 

Similar to the open source Sourceforge. 

net software development site, Forge.mil 

offers Department of Defense developers a 

secure collaboration environment controlled 

by Common Access Card authentication 

and security. Interested (authorized) parties 

can access the Pursuer source code under 

the RYA – SPADE [AFRL Sensors 

Directorate, Automatic Target Recognition – 

Spatially Diverse Electronic Attack] project on 

Forge.mil. 

For additional information on this technology contact AFRL/RY afrl.ry.marketing@wpafb.af.mil, (937)904-9771. To receive more information about AFRL, 

visit the Homepage at www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl. (RY-10-08_04-15) Sensors/Response to Needs 

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PRIMORDIAL.COM 

Tentacle TM - 3D Immersive Surveillance System 

Primordial’s Tentacle software reduces operator overload by fusing multiple sensor feeds 

into a single 3D surveillance display, leveraging NASA World Wind for 3D rendering. 

The development of the Tentacle project is currently being funded with an Air Force 

Research Laboratory (AFRL) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) phase II contract. 

Tentacle supports entity tracking from static surveillance cameras, and during phase II 

it will be updated to also supported moving cameras e.g. from unmanned aerial vehicles 

(UAVs) or unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). 

The entities extracted from these videos are automatically placed into a single threedimensional 

(3D) display so that one analyst will be able to effectively monitor dozens of 

cameras. Tentacle’s World Wind-based 3D display includes imagery, terrain, buildings, 

and avatars representing entities such as people and vehicles. During phase II the avatars 

will be updated, likely using 3D Collada models embedded in World Wind, in order to 

provide a more realistic representation of the tracked entities. 

Tentacle also supports analyzing behavior and providing alerts (e.g. crossed tripwire or 

abandoned bag), and it is being updated in phase II with additional behavior analytics, 

improved capabilities for extracting metadata (e.g. person versus vehicle, upper color, and 

lower color), support for performing real-time queries (e.g. highlight people wearing red 

shirts), as well as archived queries of video and metadata. 

For this project, Primordial has teamed with intuVision, All Hazards Management (AHM), 

and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). intuVision is a leader in surveillance camera 

tracking and alerts, CMU provides expertise in tracking vehicles from UAVs including the 

Raven, and AHM is assisting with development for the 3D display. 

1021 Bandana Boulevard East, Suite 225 • Saint Paul, MN • 55108 

Phone: (651) 395-6200 • Fax: (651) 644-1294

GEOnet: Networked-based Sensor System for Locating RF Emitters 

FutureTek Software Consulting LLC 

Rob Ratcliff - rob@futuretek.com 512-633-5751 

A NASA World Wind based NetBeans plug-in was developed for the 

Ticom Geomatics (www.ticom-geo.com) GEOnet operator interface for the 

3D alternative to the currently used 2D GIS package. GEOnet is a networkedbased 

sensor system for finding RF emitters. 

∙∙∙∙∙ Field of View (FOV) 

----- Area of Interest (AOI) 

The GEOnet displays the dilution of precision (DOP) contour plot 

and the fields of view (FOV) for the active sensors and the AOI. 

World Wind was selected since it could be readily embedded in a Java application 

using its stable and performant Java API. World Wind also enables access to many 

popular GIS data formats supplied by map data servers via the open WMS standard. 

In addition, the GEOnet GUI could readily leverage many of the built-in 

capabilities of World Wind such as measuring tools, 2D/3D projections, direct 

importing of GeoTIFFs, VPF and ESRI Shapefiles, the off-line map data cache, 

line-of-site prediction, KML rendering, analytic surfaces and MGRS support. 

www.futuretek.com

World Wind for Aviation Operations 

WxOps.com 

Dr. Scott T. Shipley, scott@wxops.com; 

Mark Spence, Chief of Dispatch Operations, Mark.spence@hawaiianair.com 

World Wind has been selected as the next generation geobrowser for Dispatch Operations 

at Hawaiian Airlines. Adapted by WxOps, Inc., this geobrowser is being integrated into 

the current Hawaiian Dispatch Software Suite (DSS) and the upcoming Hawaiian Airlines 

Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) system. Hawaiian is pioneering a geobrowser-based 

"Common Operating Environment" which is providing useful insights into potential 

NextGen tools and applications. WxOps will discuss key factors leading to the selection of 

World Wind and its advantages in applications for global and trans-oceanic aviation 

operations. 

For more information, please contact Albert Peterlin, WxOps COO albert@wxops.com 

WxOps Inc. is a Hawaii 

based company providing 

state of the art 

transportation and weather 

support products to 

industry and government. 

WxOps uses 4D Virtual 

Globe and other 

technologies to visualize 

and control transportation 

operations in response to 

rapidly changing 

conditions on local and 

global scales. 

4-Dimensional geospatial operations with NEXRAD and CloudSat 

radar using World Wind JAVA, demonstrating animation and 

transparency in a demanding Common Operating Environment. 

http://wxops.com/public/WorldWind.html 

About Hawaiian Airlines: 

Now in its 81st year of 

continuous service for 

Hawaii, Hawaiian is the 

State's biggest and 

longest-serving airline, as well as the largest provider of passenger air service to Hawaii 

from the State's primary visitor markets on the U.S. mainland. 

Hawaiian offers nonstop service to Hawaii from more U.S. gateway cities than any other 

airline, as well as service to the Philippines, Australia, American Samoa, Tahiti, Japan, 

South Korea and New Zealand. Hawaiian also provides more than 150 daily jet flights 

between the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. is a subsidiary of Hawaiian 

Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA). 

Copyright (2012) WxOps, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Terramenta is built on top of the NetBeans 

Platform application framework. The 

NetBeans Platform provides a rich set of 

capabilities including a windowing 

framework, action system, and a mature 

set of APIs and services for plug-in 

development and management. NetBeans 

also has an established community that 

provides a wealth of tutorials, FAQs, and 

books. 

Terramenta makes extensive use of NASA’s 

World Wind to create a rich user 

experience working with geospatial data. 

Have a World Wind Java (WWJ) feature 

you would like to use Terramenta brings 

the WWJ framework to your plug-in. 

Terramenta is a Java software application 

that can run on Microsoft Windows, Mac 

OS X, and Linux operating systems. 

Te r r a m e n t a w o r k s f o r y o u r 

G e o s p a t i a l a n d V i s u a l i z a t i o n n e e d s . 

Through the use of NASA World Wind and the NetBeans Platform, 

Terramenta is an open source foundation for your geospatial 

applications. Terramenta is a Geographic Information System (GIS) 

desktop application designed to interact with nearly any type of data 

that can be presented to a user. Terramenta supports a wide range of 

community formats and standards including GeoTIFF, DTED, KML, 

GML, GeoJSON, GeoRSS, and WMS. It supports rich user interaction 

for graphics and analysis capabilities and focuses on providing a clean 

modular system so that new functionality can quickly be introduced 

within a community of interest. 

Terramenta inherits tremendous 

support through the use of the NetBeans and NASA World Wind opensource 

project communities. 

Terra = The world. 

Ferramenta = Tool of iron. 

∴ Terramenta = World Tool 

bitbucket.org/heidtmare/terramenta 

Chris.Heidt@QinetiQ-NA.com

GeoServer and OpenGeo Suite with World Wind 

Ilya Rosenfeld 

irosenfeld@opengeo.org 

GeoServer is a full-featured software server for sharing and editing of 

geospatial data. GeoServer allows using most major spatial databases 

and file formats as data sources. Built to be a spatial interoperability server and a core 

building block of the geospatial web, GeoServer provides an easy means to publish data 

as standards-compliant web services. GeoServer is the reference implementation of the 

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Coverage 

Service (WCS) standards, as well as a high performance, OGC-certified Web Map 

Service (WMS). In addition to providing standards-based mapping and data web services, 

GeoServer is as a robust platform for scripting and deploying processing logic as OGCcompliant 

Web Processing Services (WPS). 

GeoServer is continuously developed and tested by a community of individual 

contributors and organizations around the world. It is licensed as free software under 

GPL 2.0 license. 

GeoServer source code and multi-platform binary releases are freely available online 

along with extensions and complete user, developer and API documentation. 

Implemented as a Java web application, GeoServer only requires a Java Virtual Machine 

(JVM) to run stand-alone in a bundled, Jetty lightweight servlet container. Alternatively, 

the Web Application Archive (.war file) distribution may be deployed to any servlet 

container such as Apache Tomcat. Once installed, an intuitive, browser-based 

administration console is used to configure data sources, services to be published, 

security rules, map styles, caching, performance optimizations, as well as multiple other 

capabilities of GeoServer. 

OpenGeo is an organization that employs core developers of 

GeoServer technology and prominent expert members of communities 

it supports. OpenGeo provides enterprise support, training and custom 

development services to customers worldwide. OpenGeo is maker of OpenGeo Suite – a 

complete and open geospatial development platform running on the cloud, onsite, in a 

browser and on mobile devices. Packaged as a convenient installer, OpenGeo Suite 

contains all components necessary for building and deploying spatially enabled services 

and web applications – whether stand-alone, or in combination of other infrastructure. 

NASA World Wind SDK and prebuilt applications provide connectivity to multiple web 

services supported by GeoServer. Among these are WMS, WFS and others. 

Download and install GeoServer: http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Download 

Understand GeoServer License: http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/License 

Use GeoServer WMS in World Wind: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/1.2.0/demos/ 

Get OpenGeo Suite and Support: http://opengeo.org/products/suite/

NEWS 

Mapgears and MGeospatial join forces to launch Mapgears Solutions 

Quebec, Canada, April 4, 2012 - Mapgears and Mgeospatial are pleased to announce the merge of their respective geospatial consulting activities 

into a new Mapgears division: Mapgears Solutions. 

"With the MapServer web mapping engine, we have played an active role in the open source revolution that took off over the last decade in the 

geospatial field around the world", says Daniel Morissette, president of Mapgears. "The new Mapgears Solutions team will complement our current 

technology offering with its highly specialized consulting services to assist our customers in the deployment of MapServer and related open source 

technologies, and to continue to revolutionize the geospatial field." 

"It is with great pleasure that I join the Mapgears team to take on this new challenge", added Simon Mercier, vice president of the new Mapgears 

Solutions division. "Mapgears was Mgeospatial's main technology partner and the merge of our activities was the next logical step to allow us to grow 

our teams and help sustain the growing demand for our services. Our goal with Mapgears Solutions is to present an innovative web mapping service 

offering and to continue to deliver bleeding edge solutions to our clients." 

About Mapgears 

Members of Mapgears team have been active for over 12 years in the development of the MapServer web mapping engine and related open source 

technologies of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). Mapgears offers professional, yet personnalized services to assist application 

developers and integrators who made the choice of MapServer and other OSGeo technologies such as PostGIS, GDAL/OGR, OpenLayers, GeoExt, 

MapFish and GeoPrisma. 

Mapgears counts as part of its Technology team some of the main developers of Mapserver and related open source technologies, who in turn have 

access to an international network of trusted partners which includes the majority of the other developers of those same software packages. 

The new Mapgears Solutions team offers an alternative to the traditional consulting service offering currently available on the geospatial market. Its 

objective is to respond to the customer's needs with solutions and assistance services revolving around open source or even hybrid (mix of closed and 

open source) geosptial technologies combined with the use of agile and sustainable development methodologies which are respectful of the 

customer's needs. 

For more information 

Daniel Morissette, dmorissette@mapgears.com 

Phone: 418-696-5056 / 1-888-696-5056 

Simon Mercier, smercier@mapgears.com 

Phone : 418-559-7139 

Follow us on Twitter @Mapgears 

See also 

Mapgears continues its growth and launches Mapgears Solutions (Daniel Morissette's blog) 

Solutions Mapgears (in French on Simon Mercier's blog) 

Our website is being rebuilt to reflect the recent changes 

to Mapgears and its products and services offering. 

Please come back and visit us again in a few weeks. 

Phone: +1 418.696.5056 

Toll Free: 1.888.696.5056 

info@mapgears.com 

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