Envitia & OpenGeo Announce Partnership

Envitia has announced the UK’s first Solution Provider Partnership with OpenGeo. This partnership reinforces Envitia’s position at the forefront of delivery and support of the OpenGeo Suite (which includes GeoServer, PostGIS and OpenLayers) in the UK market.

Envitia helps organisations to make use of geospatial intelligence in critical operational environments. Following an open systems approach, Envitia has been complementing its high performance, specialist software with open source products for over five years.   “OpenGeo are the world’s leader in developing and supporting open source geospatial software and we are delighted to be partnering with them”, says Dr. Matt Perrin, Director, Envitia.  “This relationship enhances our ability to provide open, flexible and cost effective solutions.”

The OpenGeo Suite combines the power of open source plus the reliability and support of a single, stable vendor behind a full stack of software.  Envitia provide flexible levels of support and training on the OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition with a range of packages that can be tailored to cover all of the OpenGeo Suite components (PostGIS, GeoServer, GeoWebCache, OpenLayers, and GeoExt).

Ken Bossung, OpenGeo's SVP of Sales and Marketing added "Envitia is a leading geospatial solutions provider and we are delighted that they've joined the diverse group of businesses who bring value to the OpenGeo partner program.

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Free MapLink Pro ENC Viewer Available For Download

Envitia is pleased to announce the launch of the MapLink Pro ENC (Electronic Navigation Chart) Viewer. The MapLink Pro ENC Viewer is a Windows application that provides the capability to visualise maritime S-57 data via compliant S-52 charting specification. The viewer also supports S-63 encrypted data. The MapLink Pro ENC Viewer is available as a free download from www.envitia.com.

The features of the viewer include:

• Chart display with scale tools
• Import S-63 and S-57 data  
• Full implementation of the S-63 standard
• Configurable S-52 tables and symbology

“The MapLink Pro ENC Viewer is a useful tool for anyone that has a requirement to visualise maritime charts prior to integrating them into an operational system” says Matthew Wood, Product Manager at Envitia. “The viewer also demonstrates the high performance and accurate rendering available to developers and system integrators in the full version of MapLink Pro.”

The viewer is built with the MapLink Pro SDK and provides an example of how developers can rapidly integrate nautical data and visualisation capabilities into maritime applications including ECDIS and WECDIS. MapLink Pro also enables Situational Awareness and C2 Systems to access the same data that is being used by ECDIS and WECDIS systems. MapLink Pro enables developers to combine maritime geospatial data such as ENC S-57 (S-63 S-52), AML, DNC, HCRF, DBDBV 6.2 with other non-maritime data sources (full list available on website). MapLink Pro also provides a set of web services that enable maritime interoperability through open standards. MapLink Pro provides maritime information superiority to a wide range of systems such as:

• Maritime Situational Awareness
• Maritime C2-C4 Systems
• Port and Harbour Management
• Traffic Management Systems
• Training and Simulation
• Naval Combat Systems

MapLink Pro provides a framework to develop maritime chart and navigation applications specifically to meet your needs.

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Envitia and Tactical Communications Group and Announce Technology Alliance

Envitia and Tactical Communications Group (TCG) have entered a technology alliance that provides ongoing developments in next-generation mission critical systems worldwide. The partnership will continue to enable global defense organizations and the major defense contractors that serve these organizations to deliver standards-compliant, reliable, highly cost-effective tactical data link solutions.

“TCG has an excellent pedigree of providing innovative solutions and an understanding of how to meet complex data link needs” says Robin Parish, Business Development Manager, Envitia.  “We are delighted to announce a strategic relationship, it is exciting to see our technology utilized in solutions offering unique standards based and proven approach to geospatial data integration.

Envitia’s MapLink Pro SDK is the geospatial tactical display engine that powers TCG’s Battlefield Operations Support System (BOSS) and Ground Tactical Data Link System (GTS). LinkPRO is the implementing DLP in advanced military communications platforms. Using LinkPRO, major defense contractors and ground C2 systems providers can now easily embed high fidelity tactical data link capabilities into their systems and solutions and deliver standards-compliant TDL operational solutions to customers across the globe.

“TCG chose Envitia’s MapLink Pro because it offered the high performance and feature rich capabilities required by both our domestic and international customers”, said Steve Horsburgh, Director of Product Management, TCG. “Through our strategic alliance with Envitia, we are able to provide clients with an advanced visualization of the battlefield.  This allows TCG to continue to be the choice for major defence contractors, ground C2 system providers, and international defence agencies.”

Envitia has recently launched the next generation of MapLink Pro and introduced the most powerful and flexible version of the tool kit to date. MapLink Pro 7.0 64-bit pushes the envelope of visualisation performance and continues to increase the usability and effectiveness of mapping applications.

About Envitia

Envitia is a world leader in geospatial intelligence technologies. Envitia applications and software technologies provide the highest performance solutions for the Defence, Government and major systems integrators. Our COTS software and solutions are employed globally across a wide spectrum of disciplines including environmental analysis and exploitation, data fusion and integrity, and the management of very large and disparate datasets with extreme precision. Working with partners we offer comprehensive geospatial intelligence services to operational forces. For further information, please contact Envitia Ltd www.envitia.com or Tel: +44 1403 273 173

About TCG - Advancing Secure Communications for the Battlefield

Founded in 2001, Tactical Communications Group (TCG) is the leading independent supplier of tactical data link (TDL) software solutions for military communications systems. TCG’s comprehensive portfolio of TDL testing, training, simulation and battlefield operations software solutions provides the warfighter proven multi-link communication capabilities to optimize performance and increase mission effectiveness. TCG customers include leading military organizations, systems integrators and test agencies worldwide. For more information on TCG, please visit www.g2tcg.com or call us at 978-654-4800.

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Envitia Announce Free Webinar

Envitia Announce Free Webinar: The Ultimate Mapping SDK Just Got Faster... Learn How – 23rd February 2012

To mark the release of MapLink Pro 7.0 Envitia is pleased to announce a free webinar. Using real world examples Envitia will demonstrate the flexibility and benefits MapLink Pro provides to developers and end-users. 

If any of the following applies to you, this webinar will be of benefit:

• You are considering integrating mapping into your operational systems.
• You have a legacy mapping engine that requires an upgrade.
• You are looking for reduced development time and improved ease of integration.
• You understand that high performance mapping provides a competitive advantage.

Dr. Matt Perrin, Director, Envitia and Andy Shaw, Business Development Manager, Envitia will explain why MapLink Pro is at the forefront of modern operational systems where performance and agility are critical. 

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Introducing MapLink Pro

For over 15 years Envitia’s MapLink Pro has been at the forefront of geospatial visualisation and is deployed in over 7000 systems worldwide. MapLink Pro is the toolkit of choice for all large System Integrators and is used in areas such as Situational Awareness, Command & Control, UAV Ground Control Stations, Mission Planning & Review and Training & Simulation.

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GEOCORE wins major contract to deliver MoD research

GEOCORE1 led by Envitia, including Helyx SIS Ltd, University of Nottingham, University College London (UCL) and QinetiQ has been awarded a two year £1.9M contract by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Advanced Geospatial information and Intelligence Services (AGIS) research programme. This includes the development of science and technology, methods and techniques to underpin and improve the handling and understanding of GEOINF/GEOINT within Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Other Government Departments (OGDs).

The research will be exploitable over the next 5-10 years and will identify opportunities for the rapid development and insertion of geospatial technology.

The scope of the research includes: an assessment of future defence requirements, in addition to undertaking a broad range of Geospatial research to support the MoD ISTAR domain, supporting delivery of the MoD’s Spatial Data Infrastructure.

“The Envitia led AGIS programme will ensure that MoD stays at the vanguard of geospatial research” says James Prain – Dstl’s AGIS Project Manager. “The GEOCORE team has demonstrated its extensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities for the geospatial community and expertise to advance MoD geospatial capability.”

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