NGA NEWS

Attend the VLS Users Conference, September 12-13, 2006 in scenic Missoula, Montana, because NGA has selected Feature Analyst for its IEC baseline and VLS wants to help train NGA personnel FREE OF CHARGE. Click here for details about the conference.

Feature Analyst is an essential application for NGA members, providing clear advantages over hand-digitizing with assisted and automated tools for extracting features of interest from imagery. NGA has conducted comprehensive testing of Feature Analyst; click here to view the full report.

For more information regarding Feature Analyst or the VLS Users Conference, contact VLS via email or call toll free: 1-866-YOUR-VLS, and a VLS representative will be happy to speak with you.

Below is a list of topics that may be of interest to you:

• Free Software Training for NGA at VLS Users Conference
• AFE Analyst of the Year Award
• NGA Selects Feature Analyst® for Baseline Production

Free Software Training for NGA at VLS Users Conference

The Third Annual VLS Users Conference is the premier event for members of the NGA to become acquainted with the VLS software, Feature Analyst® and LIDAR Analyst®, the most widely used feature extraction tools in the GIS industry.

Free software training is available to NGA personnel, at this year's conference, in addition to technical demonstrations, workshops, and opportunities for one-on-one consultations with VLS software experts and engineers. For more information regarding the conference, click here.

AFE Analyst of the Year Award

VLS invites NGA members to participate for the highly prestigious AFE Analyst of the Year, recognizing the emerging field of accelerated feature extraction (AFE). The contest, in its third year, is designed to reward superb performances using automation in feature extraction, image segmentation, image intelligence, or image-to-vector conversion.

NGA Selects Feature Analyst for Baseline Production

In 2006, the NGA intends to deploy the VLS software, Feature Analyst, for early technology insertion across the NGA’s Integrated Exploitation Capability (IEC) workstations. Click here to view the press release.

"Timing comparisons indicate that Feature Analyst reduces extraction time by a factor of 5 to 10 over small areas," wrote Michael O'Brien, NGA STAR Program Manager, in his report, Feature Extraction with the VLS Feature Analyst System. "By using Feature Analyst to develop automated classification models over a small training set and extrapolating to larger areas, extraction times could be reduced by several orders of magnitude over large areas."