Mission Statement
To be a leader and key contributor in the area of
geospatial data processing for national, international
and commercial space exploration and earth observing
missions. To provide outstanding products and
services, maximum efficiency and excellent return on
customer investment. To always
remain innovative, agile and responsive. To build on our
growing wealth of mission experience and help pave the
way for future missions. To provide a rewarding and
exciting work environment for our employees.
About ACT
Founded in 1988, Applied Coherent Technology (ACT)
Corporation has emerged as one of the highly innovative
and trusted organizations in the geospatial data
applications industry.
ACT’s long list of accomplishments include providing
key front-end data management archive&analsysis (DMAA) for such crucial missions
as MRO/CRISM(NASA), MESSENGER(NASA), CH-1/M3(NASA) CLEMENTINE(NASA/NAVY), STARDUST (JPL/NASA), RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL
ASSESSMENT EXERCISES (NATO), MSTI-2&3 (Air force), ...
.
ACT has been actively involved in the creation of
geospatial data tools designed to process and analyze
satellite imagery in a fast, interactive and effective
manner. ACT is a highly innovative environment with
employees focused on continuously adapting its software
and services to new challenges and customer
requirements. ACT offers a variety of software products
and technical services that cover the full geospatial
data management and analytic lifecycle – tools and
services designed to meet your organization’s unique
needs.
ACT was founded by Dr. Erick Malaret. Dr. Malaret
holds a PhD from Purdue University in Electrical
Engineering with a specialty in Signal/Image Processing
and has over 35 years of experience in the field. Dr.
Malaret has devoted his career to developing software
that enhances the efficiency and quality of the image
data analysis process – beginning with his doctoral
research in remote sensing and image systems in the
1980’s. Dr. Malaret has focused his efforts and ACT’s
research and development resources across the complete
image data analysis lifecycle – from sensor data capture
and management through analysis and end user results.
This unique approach has produced groundbreaking
software for managing the entire process, improving
research results and enabling significant reuse of data
and research findings.
Presently ACT's software architecture (SW) can be broken into domain areas as:
ACT's Desktop SW = REACT/ProVIEW/MSHELL , ACT's Cloud SW = WIPE/PIPE, ACT's WebApp SW = QuickMap.
ACT’s software success began with the creation of
MSHELL™, an image processing language environment
designed to organize and manage large volumes of data.
The Defense Community has extensively used MSHELL™ for reduction and analysis of satellite
imagery. Building upon the success of MSHELL™, ACT
moved forward to develop a variety of software tools
intended to assist both the government and the private
sector in fast, efficient and effective processing of
satellite data. ProVIEW – an interactive command line
and menu driven signal-processing environment, has
become one example of ACT’s continued innovation.
ProVIEW allows processing of large volumes of images in
a fully automatic fashion and provides powerful
scientific signal visualization.
A key component
of ACT’s unconventional thinking,
however, has become WIPE™ – the WWW Information
Processing Environment – a web-based Image Processing
and Geographical Information System (IP/GIS) that
provides network-centric manipulation of
geo-spatial/temporal data. Through a simple to use
web-based interface, WIPE offers a fully integrated
hardware/software system for the assimilation,
processing, and fusion of geospatial data sets. WIPE has
been used by NOAA, NRL/US
Navy, and SACLANT Center/NATO.
ACT also developed a special version of WIPE™, called
PIPE™ (Planetary Information Processing Environment)
with special features to support unique space
exploration requirements (e.g.. telemetry data handlers,
NASA PDS Generation, etc.). PIPE™ has been and continues
to be used by NASA in multiple missions such as
CLEMENTINE, Stardust, DeepImpact, MESSENGER, MRO/CRISM,
LRO/LROC, and Ch-1/M3.
For the desktop, the company’s latest innovation is the development of
the most comprehensive geospatial data fusion and
analysis workbench available -- ACT-REACT™ (Rapid
Environmental Assessment Composition Tools). Because
ACT-REACT™ is fully integrated with WIPE™ and PIPE™
researchers are able to manage across the entire
geospatial analytic lifecycle and gain significant data
and results reuse. ACT-REACT leverages the same MSHELL™
image processing engine – enabling researchers to build
and test complex scripts and leverage WIPE™/PIPE™
servers to fully automate the process. ACT-REACT™ is
currently being used by NASA to support many Planetary
Missions and has been used by NOAA/USN/NASA in decision support tools for
Costal Zone Management.
For the browser environment, ACT-REACT-QuickMap captures many of the
capabilities of REACT but in a simple to deploy web environment.
The goal of QuickMap is to be simple to use and quick.
Nevertheless QuickMap has extensive data visualization and analysis
capabilities, and faciliates
interactive access to planetary products at the global and regional level
via a simple to navigate map interface.
Due to its simplicity, QuickMap has a large comunnity of unique daily users.
In today’s marketplace where navigation of geospatial
data is becoming increasingly cumbersome, ACT offers its
customers a full complement of software and services
that cut to the very heart of data management and
analytics: efficiency, lower costs and enhanced
productivity!
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