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Lockheed Martin Implements AGI’s STK Terrain Server for GVS Program

Analytical Graphics Inc.’s (AGI) STK Terrain Server was recently implemented by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to provide a superior conduit for bringing terrain sources into GEOINT Visualization Services (GVS) and the Map of the World (MoW) Viewer. This off-the-shelf software enhances National Geospatial Agency (NGA) user-operations by delivering an elevated geographical representation of the world through terrain processing and streaming optimization.

The MoW 3D Viewer, built on the open source Cesium globe for 3D/4D functionality, leverages the functionality brought by the STK Terrain Server.  The MoW viewer allows users to easily discover and visualize authoritative and community content in both two dimensional and three dimensional 2D and 3D.

Lockheed Martin is optimistic that the Map of the World Viewer is blazing toward new horizons, and that this integration will provide significantly more geographic detail to any intelligence report or operating picture for Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) users.

Lockheed was awarded the GVS contract in September 2016, to develop and deploy the 3D/4D globe, and to deliver enterprise visualization services for the intelligence community, Department of Defense, and other government agencies. GVS services are used daily by 30,000+ users on 10 different networks as well as by disconnected users leveraging “portable” globes.  The STK Terrain Server empowers Lockheed Martin to process authoritative, high-resolution terrain sources into an open format, which can be streamed over the network into a Cesium globe. Lockheed began utilizing open-source Cesium globe as a replacement for another commercial system in December of 2015.

“Deploying AGI’s STK Terrain Server to the commercial cloud environment provides the Map of the World users with enhanced visualization and analytic capabilities,” said Girard Andres, Director of Mission Systems Capabilities with Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.  “This enhancement delivers critical enterprise geospatial services required to support the variety of missions in the Intelligence and DOD community and increases the breadth of services provided by Lockheed Martin on GVS.” 

Cesium’s extensive capabilities will be used to meet several points of the geospatial strategy: “We are super excited to be partnering with the GVS team to advance NGA's geospatial visualization mission, and we look forward to further adoption of the Cesium ecosystem across the IC and DoD as a common visualization platform," said Dave Peters, director of business development at AGI.

About AGI
Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) is the incubator of the Cesium team, which is the founder and primary contributor to the Cesium open source project. Cesium is an open-source JavaScript library for world-class browser-based 3D globes and maps. The Cesium team also manages cesium.com which enables the rapid dissemination of geospatial data products optimized for STK-based and Cesium-based clients.
 
ABOUT LOCKHEED MARTIN
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 97,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.

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Geospatial Content Server (GCS)

Host, process, and serve terrain, imagery, and other heterogeneous 3D data.

Terrain, Imagery, and Maps (TIM)

Terrain data, Earth imagery, and maps for offline access.