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 SPIRITT, ATARS/APG-73, LSRS, ASARS-2A, SYERS-2, and Global Hawk and provides simultaneous support for multiple sensor types. The VANTAGE™ software suite includes the following applications:
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
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
VANTAGE™ Soar
- Interfaces with data received through SDL’s CDL Interface Box (CIB) or Sky Lynx 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
VANTAGE™ WESS
- Provides map-based database access via a standard web browser
