In today's world, where terrorism and natural disasters are an all-too-common reality, situational awareness has become, both locally and nationally, of paramount importance. So, for the past few years Qbase has been developing a number of technologies that together form an advanced GIS-based, sensor fusion environment known as TouchStone®, purpose-built for proactive situational awareness. This environment incorporates as its user interface a 3D GIS system implemented in NASA’s World Wind. The interface provides integration of multiple layers of aerial imagery, ground-based surveillance imagery (fixed and mobile), integration of external GIS feeds, and tracking of GPS-enabled devices. The interface also supports the reading and writing of synthetic GIS layers. Everything in the system is both geographically and temporally synchronized and presents a video recorder-style interface with rewind, pause, and fast-forward through the data with the ability to jump back to the live feeds on demand. TouchStone® provides unprecedented access to real-time data from multiple sources for decision-making and crisis monitoring and prevention for any type of crisis situation. This is an ongoing project, and we are looking for partners to take TouchStone® to the next level. Right now, TouchStone is being evaluated by the DHS as well as police departments around the U.S. Contact us for more information if your organization has technologies that would integrate well with TouchStone®, or have a need for the superior technologies found only in the TouchStone® system.
