NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- (GEOINT
Symposium, Booth #757) - Harris Corporation
(NYSE: HRS), an international communications and information
technology company, has announced the general availability of a new
version of its commercial Full-Motion Video Asset Management Engine
(FAME™) that enables analysts to more quickly search and analyze
metadata.
The release of the FAME 3.1 solution expands upon previous
versions by adding greatly enhanced enterprise-level services,
which allow tools to be utilized concurrently across hundreds of
systems. New tools include virtualization, a video
exploitation processor (VEP) and a geospatially enabled
multiviewer. The FAME 3.1 architecture greatly speeds an
organization's ability to process metadata by allowing any PC in
the system to act as a browser-based client that relies on a FAME
server for the processing power.
"The browser-based client speeds processes and allows users
anywhere in the world, even over impaired networks, to take
advantage of its services," said Brian
Cabeceiras, vice president, Emerging Businesses, Harris
Broadcast Communications. "The FAME 3.1 solution processes
and federates data about full-motion video in real time — making it
available to war fighters, analysts and decision makers in the
format they need and turning information into a benefit to the
intelligence community as a whole,"
Enterprise-level services
- Greatly improves ability to find relevant video
clips
The FAME 3.1 system ingests H.264 or MPEG-2 transport streams in
digital standard- and high-definition formats, retaining metadata
within the stream so that it can be stored in the FAME database for
searching/cataloging purposes. The stored information is
Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB)-compliant and includes
geospatial and mission-critical information, greatly augmenting the
ability to discover relevant video clips. Temporal and
geospatial searches may be filtered further using mission or
external metadata. Searches may be conducted across the
entire enterprise, delivering results regardless of where the
motion imagery was originally ingested. Geospatial markers within
the video are inserted into the database as quickly as they are
received, making the data searches accurate to the
second/frame.
- Expanded user and group security
User and group security are maintained in the FAME 3.1 system by
using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which indexes
data and allows users to apply "filters" to find a specific person
or group. Administrators can apply filters to allow certain
users access to various video streams, as well as the data created
for those streams.
- Multi-dimensional data layers
The FAME 3.1 solution expands on the concept of markers, which
provide an integration point for external systems that produce
metadata with temporal or geospatial references. An analyst
can add markers in real time, while a system that is generating
other intelligence data can use the FAME marker interface to
simultaneously annotate the motion imagery.
Virtualization: simplified system deployment and
administration
Virtualization allows the FAME 3.1 solution to share the
resources of one physical computer across multiple environments,
greatly simplifying system administration. FAME components
are integrated, allowing for advanced failover and redundancy
techniques, reducing the hardware footprint and complexity involved
with scaling FAME systems to many hundreds of users or streams, and
increasing network efficiency by constraining much of the traffic
to a single physical server.
Video Exploitation Processor (VEP)
The FAME 3.1 solution includes a new video exploitation
processor, which time-stamps all video, providing a universal
reference for annotation, metadata correlation and searching —
ensuring the data is encoded according to MISB standards.
Geospatially enabled multiviewer
The FAME 3.1 geospatially enabled multiviewer provides a mapping
context to a data wall, allowing multiple, incoming motion imagery
streams to be displayed as an overlay on a common operating
picture. The large-format display is dynamically created using
rules and preferences, such that certain activities can trigger
changes to the way the motion imagery streams are displayed.
Harris Broadcast Communications offers products, systems and
services that provide interoperable workflow solutions for
broadcast, cable, satellite and out-of-home networks. The
Harris ONE™ solution brings together highly integrated and
cost-effective products that enable advanced media workflows for
emerging content delivery business models.
About Harris Corporation
Harris is an international communications and information
technology company serving government and commercial markets in
more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has
approximately $5 billion of annual
revenue and more than 16,000 employees — including nearly 7,000
engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing
best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and
services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is
available at www.harris.com.
SOURCE Harris Corporation