Keystone Image Management System

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Overview

The Keystone Image

Management System

offers solutions that

archive, catalogue,

process and deliver

digital images from a vast

number of satellites and

airborne digital sensors.

The Keystone product family caters for evolving needs with systems ranging from a standalone workstation to enterprise-class servers and cloud solutions.

Find, view, select and manipulate large volumes of still and motion image material from many sensors in a familiar map context. Enjoy quick and direct access to all your imagery thanks to on-the-fly processing while skipping costly and time-consuming bulk pre-processing. Maximise the timeliness value of data and make image products rapidly available through network access while keeping multi-sensor archives lean and easy to manage. Scale and extend the Keystone System to meet changing levels and types of demand over time.

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Keystone can easily be scaled for archives of just a few hundred gigabytes to hundreds of terabytes, while multi-sensor capabilities can be extended using the SOAP-enabled APIs.

Keystone Console Keystone Web Portal Web map client GIS client Keystone Catalogue Archive On-the-fly Geoprocessing Ser vices

Still and motion imagery are taken almost directly from their sensors with no need for expensive and lengthy pre-processing. Multi-sensor merge is performed on the fly on the output side. Waiting times of hours, days or weeks are reduced to seconds with Keystone.

No corners are cut so users can be sure that images served up on-the-fly and ones that are batch processed have the same high quality. Images can be improved using ground control, and sub-pixel accuracy is available when using reference data of sufficient quality.

Satellite Helicopter Fixed Wing Frame Camera Pushbroom Sensor Video

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Catalogue

Full context

The Catalogue provides full visibility of archived still and motion imagery and its metadata, optimised for fast search and browse. Queries can search any available metadata parameters. Result listings can provide full metadata.

Visualise future acquisitions

The Catalogue can store information about upcoming data acquisitions. This information can be searched and displayed alongside existing images.

Sensor models

The Keystone Server ingests imagery from many popular satellite and airborne image sources. Built-in physical sensor models use the image metadata to establish an analytical relationship between the image pixels and Earth coordinate system. This enables geographical searches on all data as soon as it is ingested. New sensors or changed sensor configurations can be added easily.

Access

Rapid access and interactive visualisation

Sensor data is available as soon as it is ingested, providing almost immediate access to new imagery. The Keystone System’s on-the-fly processing allows users to interactively design and preview their image products, viewed in their geographical locations at any zoom level.

Key Functionalities

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a number of strategies, including parallel processing and caching.

3,000+ coordinate systems

The Keystone System supports the EPSG system of over 3,000 coordinate systems worldwide, seamlessly combining and rigorously transforming geospatial datasets between coordinate systems.

Image products can be generated for a whole scene, for multiple scenes, mosaics or geographical extracts from any of these. Supported product levels range from simple system-corrected imagery to fully ortho-rectified and colour-balanced mosaics.

Workflow modification

The Keystone Server builds complex processes that allow one or many

matching to existing reference imagery and the selection of tie-points in block-bundle adjustments.

Administration & user

management

Security

The system administrator can set roles and permissions for any number of users. Access to specific data can be defined on a user-by-user basis.

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Server

The Server contains the image store, catalogue and the on-the-fly processor. The Server has a service-oriented architecture that is most effectively deployed over a number of networked servers. Many processes are highly parallelised, making best use of multiple processor cores. The system can readily be scaled to support higher levels of throughput or greater end-user load.

Integration with external systems

Customers can plug the Server into their current systems using the

Keystone API, which provides complete access to the Keystone Server’s capabilities for seamless integration into an existing environment.

Integration using open standards

Users can access the Server using open standards including OGC WMS (Web Mapping Services). This quickly brings the Keystone Server online as a data source within the customer’s preferred system or desktop client.

Licensing

Keystone Enterprise is licensed per installation. The number of users accessing the Server’s catalogue and product ordering functions is not limited by licensing.

Keystone Enterprise is designed for a multi-user production environment, handling very large volumes of a variety of sensor data types. Products can be published to a multitude of users.

Console

A desktop client that offers full access to the Server’s functionality. Streamlined workflows can be created to support the most critical or common tasks. The Console is built on the Eclipse platform, allowing users to add custom plugins. The intuitive map visualisation interface uses the popular World Wind component from NASA.

Web Portal

Lightweight, browser-based access to the Server’s core capabilities. The Web Portal is ideal for providing specific processing and ordering capabilities to a very large or diverse group of simultaneous users.

Keystone family of products

The Keystone Image Management System family of products offers a number of entry points to suit individual business requirements

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Keystone Solo is a streamlined standalone version of Keystone that packages the core capabilities of the image management system into a desktop solution. Keystone Solo supports image production as an interactive, single-user application

Keystone Cloud offers users the core functionality of the Enterprise solution, without the up-front responsibility for installation and maintenance. Sensor data is uploaded to the Keystone Cloud server, where it is hosted together with any image products that are generated. This eliminates extensive in-house

Keystone Solo is ideal to support small-scale production activities, such as a smaller ground station or field location, with local dissemination of imagery products.

with the same advanced modelling tools as the Enterprise solution. It also provides the same fast data access and visualisation through on-the-fly processing and the same range and quality of output products.

data storage capacity and production bottlenecks from limited hardware. Products are defined and the process monitored using the Keystone Console client running on a local machine. Having been notified by an automated email, customers access products using the Keystone Web Portal.

Keystone Cloud:

a carefree solution

Spacemetric was

founded in 1999 to provide cost-effective systems that streamline the process between geospatial image acquisition and application. The Keystone System concept is based on more than 20 years of experience in image processing system development. Spacemetric prides itself on working closely with satellite operators, service providers and solution integrators to meet emerging needs. Spacemetric is a member of the Open GIS Consortium® (OGC), offering its expertise

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Keystone Image Management System Spacemetric AB Tingsvägen 17 SE-19161 Sollentuna Sweden T: +46 8 594 770 80 E: [email protected] Spacemetric Ltd

The Hub, Suite 3A IQ Farnborough Fowler Avenue Farnborough, Hants GU14 7JP United Kingdom T: +44 207 1003606 E: [email protected] Spacemetric BV Dr. van Wiechenweg 14 NL-8025 BZ Zwolle The Netherlands T: +31 85 888 1064 E: [email protected]