AREAS GEOSPATIAL AWARENESS
Digital maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have evolved from static renderings of geographic environments to platforms capable of providing a continuously updating image of these environments. Today they are powerful instruments helping us build the awareness we need to understand the events, processes, trends and situations around us, and to take truly informed decisions.
WHAT IS GEOSPATIAL AWARENESS Geospatial Awareness reflects how much of the geographic information available to us we are actually perceiving and how much of it we are actually using in support of our activities. The concept also pertains to the extent to which applications are aware of relevant geographic information and of its meaning for the activities they support.
WHAT WE DO Geontics helps clients implement design and develop geospatially-aware applications
- Through top-down functional analyses, to determine information requirements and availability for the application or the application's user(s),
- By identifying potential information sources to fulfil application requirements,
- By prioritising and filtering information elements
- to reduce processing overheads, and
- to facilitate user awareness through elimination of unnecessary content
- By determining real-time information streaming aspects for applications which provide dynamic situation updates and continuous awareness functionality, and
- Through geographic and non-geographic information integration and fusion techniques to generate and provide synthetic or analytic information types which can contribute to enhanced awareness
EXPERIENCE In providing support for geospatial awareness, we build on experience in addressing several types of related capabilities within projects and applications:
- user and team awareness,
- event and situation awareness,
- awareness for mission planning and execution,
- mobile user awareness, and
- information fusion for event awareness