U.S. Geological Survey Geospatial Preparedness PIXIA Prototype for Rapid Dissemination of Imagery for Hurricane Response

The Requirement Support Dissemination of Large Image Data Sets for Hurricane Response for NRP/DHS Rapid Response Large Volume Many Concurrent Users Rapid Update (add data quickly- post event) Support field operations

Hypothesis for Evaluation Utilize technology specifically designed to address current bottlenecks for Massive Imagery Data Sets Increase speed Support many concurrent users Maintain high level of responsiveness under load Add data quickly, without disruption of service Enable use in field operations (wireless)

Vehicle National Technology Alliance National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Executive agent of the NTA U.S. Government program established in 1987 to influence commercial and dual use technology development with an emphasis on meeting national security and defense technology needs. The primary goal of the NTA is to partner commercial technology solutions to Government user technology needs and then create new or enhanced commercial products where the cost of development is leveraged across a broad user community.

PIXIA Technology ( The New Universal Image format (nui™) is a unique, proprietary, patented file format developed by Pixia Corp. to enable the rapid retrieval, display, and manipulation of massive, high-resolution still or video image files. nui™ technology focuses on storing the image in a way that drastically reduces the time of retrieval for end user access. nui™ technology provides significant performance advantages as image file size approaches 2 gigabytes and shows no degradation in retrieval speed even when file size reaches terabytes in size.

PIXIA Products NUI Encoder This fully automated standalone software program allows you to convert imagery from standard file formats to the specialized nui™ file format with ease. NUI GEO Server This service (OGC WMS), allows the NUI technology to serve Image data in a standard WMS service to be accessed by any client that can interoperate via WMS (JPEG,PNG) NUI Plugin This software plugin allows you to experience the performance and power of nui™ technology within ESRI’s® ArcGIS® and ERDAS IMAGINE®. NUI SDK The nui™ Software Development Kit enables you to embed the nui™ performance advantages to customized applications. NUI Viewer This high performance standalone software viewer allows you to access, view and navigate through huge nui™ image files at blazing speeds.

Hurricane Preparedness AOI - DHS

Up to Date High Resolution Imagery Acquisitions for Hurricane Preparedness

Prototype Hardware

Overview

New Orleans, LA

Miami, FL

Wilmington, NC

Services Planned for Prototype WMS Community Map-builder Viewer Seamless Data Distribution System WMS String (JPEG and PNG) Chipper (Clip and Ship) User Defined AOI – chip to files GeoTIFF, NITF Reproject on fly JPEG Interactive Protocol (JPIP) Streaming compressed wireless access Limited functionality, Windows Mobile

Period of Performance 240 Days Ending Dec 31, 2006 Equipment and Data Property of USGS Can Be repurposed if discontinued Service can Continue – Additional Cycles for NUI encoding available on GSA schedule Technology Evaluation Report