ACT News

December 17, 2007 – ACT releases new version of ACT-REACT™
ACT continues to expand ACT-REACT™ – its flagship geospatial fusion center workbench. In this version, ACT is providing expanded collaboration capabilities, numerous ease of use enhancements and development environment improvements.

Collaboration – A new network-centric collaboration feature enables users to build comprehensive workflows, generate striking, map-projected, visual products and save the results. Users are able to “publish” products and associated workflows to a server for access by other authorized users. This feature can be used to share work, collaborate across physical and temporal boundaries, and for peer-review and mark up tasks. Users can query the published data from a standard web-browser or ACT-REACT™.

Ease of use enhancements:

• Drag-and-drop layers – enabling users to drop local geospatially referenced data on the layers rendering tree or cartographic viewer for instant addition of the layer and map projection.
• Saved cartographic projections – enabling users to save and easily access a view projected in the cartographic viewer along with the all the information about the layers that were assembled to create the view.
• Right click recenter & zoom – enabling users to right click a local layer and have the option to recenter and zoom into layer.
• User defined right click options – enabling users to add their own options to the menu displayed with a right click.
• Network status icons – icons for each network layer visually display the status of network connection.
• Target database SQL query – enabling users to direct standard SQL queries against the targeting database from a new query tab.
• Network configuration mode – enabling multiple users to access the same copy of ACT-REACT™ and preserve settings on a local hard drive.
• Updated to latest version of the open source Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)

Development environment enhancements

• Script editor improvements enabling font size changes, expand/collapse of code branches, and simplified environmental variable access.
• Enabled users to save development environment settings.
• Added additional built-in functions to the to the library (e.g., url_copy_to_file(), sys_*()).

September 27, 2007 – ACT awarded MESSENGER Phase E Part II tasking -- ACT-REACT™ workstation and PIPE server products to be leveraged by the MESSENGER science teams.
ACT was awarded follow on tasks to continue work with the MESSENGER Science Operations Center. ACT software and the ACT team are supporting Data Management and Archiving and Data Analysis/Science tools development efforts. ACT will customize its PIPE server for the MESSENGER mission – enabling ingestion of data from MESSENGER instruments and automated production of EDR, CDR and RDR products and PDS archives. The MESSENGER science teams is also using a customized version of its fusion center workbench product -- ACT-REACT -- for visualization, analysis, and planning/targeting tasks.

July 28th, 2007 – ACT Products and Services available via GSA Advantage.
Applied Coherent Technology GSA schedule is added to GSA Advantage to simplify ordering for Federal and State Agencies. GSA Advantage Link

July 15, 2007 – New version of ACT-REACT™ released.
ACT continues to expand ACT-REACT™ – its flagship geospatial workbench. With this release, ACT added two key feature sets to the workbench -- coincidental data analysis and automated monitoring. Coincidental data analysis enables users to simultaneously interrogate a vast array of geospatial data and locate temporal intersections and other data junctions. These features enable analysts and scientists to quickly determine which data sets will produce the best analytic results from mountains of geospatial data. The new automated monitoring feature extends the ACT-REACT’s™ workflow capabilities -- providing users with a method to schedule automatic update multiple data sources and have the data automatically ingested and displayed in the cartographic viewer.

May 7, 2007 – ACT awarded contract to support Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter CRISM Educational Program Office.
ACT was awarded an add-on task to its original award to support the educational outreach efforts of the MRO/CRISM team from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). The MRO/CRISM science team is currently leveraging ACT-REACT workstation and PIPE server software for planning, targeting and science data ingestion and automated product creation. As part of this new task, ACT will train high school students on ACT-REACT; enabling the students to access and inspect past Mars imagery, conduct analytic tasks and collaborate with APL scientists on the selection of targets that warrant further exploration with the CRISM instrument.

March 21, 2007 - Dr. Erick Malaret addresses the Information Science and Technology Colloquium at Goddard Space Flight Center.
Dr. Malaret’s presentation -- Four Scientific Disciplines, Many Missions, One Architecture - Meeting Current and Future Science Needs through Technology Infusion and Re-use – presents an achievable architecture and strategy for maximizing the science and reuse across multiple missions.

Jan 2006 – ACT Awarded Contract through UMd for Moon Mineral Mapper (M³) mission.
Based on accomplishments in CRISM (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars) and other missions, ACT was selected to participate in Moon Mineral Mapper (M³) mission through University of Maryland. The mission will leverage ACT ’s PIPE server for level 2 data processing. The M³ science team -- located in multiple different institutions thought the US -- using ACT REACT™ for analyzing, selecting, prioritizing and managing sensor target sites.

December 14, 2006 - Applied Coherent Technology recognized as a sponsor of the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL).
ACT continues its support for the Geospatial community becoming a GDAL Silver Sponsor - www.gdal.org and www.gdal.org/credits.html