Vantage Software Suite

Vantage is SDL’s primary tactical imagery exploitation software suite. This field‐proven application screens digital imagery from various tactical reconnaissance sensors and includes simultaneous support for multiple sensor types. Vantage provides for real‐ and near real‐time screening of digital image data from a live data link, solid state recorder, DVD/CD, or local disk. In addition, Vantage provides a full featured database that can be used to quickly find imagery based on an area (or point) of interest, a time query, or sensor type.

This software suite allows the image analyst to receive, decompress/compress, process, display, evaluate, exploit, and store imagery data; as well as create/disseminate processed image products. Vantage was developed by SDL in support of various sensors such as SHARP, TARS, ATARS/APG-73, LSRS, ASARS-2A, SYERS-2A, and Global Hawk and provides simultaneous support for multiple sensor types. The Vantage software suite includes the following applications:

Vantage Screener Vantage ViewPoint

  • Provides rapid display and exploitation of tactical imagery.
  • Displays geo-referenced digital tactical imagery in a robust, near real-time waterfall of decimated imagery.
  • Provides on-demand display of full-resolution imagery with exploitation tools.

Screener

  • Includes a Motion Industry Standards Board (MISB) compliant full motion video viewer that supports MPEG-2 and H.264 formats with KLV metadata display.

Screener

Vantage Ascent Vantage Ascent

  • Configures ground stations for device interface management (Solid‐State Recorders, CDL interface, STANAG 4575, Ethernet feeds, etc.).
  • Provides sensor interfacing/processing.
  • Performs NITF image formation.
  • Provides for database management.

Ascent

Vantage Soar Vantage Soar

  • Interfaces with data received through SDL’s CDL Interface Box (CIB) for data link interfacing and simulation.
  • Allows operator to load and play simulation CDL files, select CDL data rate, select bit error rates, perform Built‐In Test (BIT), and view advanced CDL statistics.

Soar

Vantage Soar Vantage WESS

  • Provides maps-based database access via a standard web browser.

Soar