The commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product is designed for a wide range of government and commercial applications, including intelligence, oil and gas, agriculture, civil engineering, environmental protection and disaster response.
According to the company, the Geospatial Data Access Retrieval Translator (GeoDART) is a proven Harris data discovery, management and translation software tools embedded within legacy geospatial information systems (GIS) being used by government researchers and analysts. To expand the product’s application to commercial markets, GeoDART has been redesigned as a standardized COTS tool that can be easily plugged into any SOA-based GIS.
GeoDART can query multiple libraries, catalogs and databases for geospatial and textual data, and provide search results in a common set of attributes for display via the user interface. It supports various external web-service user interfaces, including the new Harris Geo-STAR product, and provides external credential and identity management, said Harris.
GeoDART allows users to customize their queries or orders by size and format, and supports automatic ordering of discovered products upon completion of a query. Queries can be conducted on an ad hoc basis, executed automatically at a set time, or saved and run on demand. GeoDART supports Boolean Query Syntax (BQS), query validation, parameter validation, and status checks of queries and orders, added Harris.
Sheldon Fox, president of national intelligence programs at Harris Government Communications Systems, said: GeoDART offers the proven benefits of Harris geospatial discovery technology in a COTS product that can quickly search and retrieve information from multiple libraries, data content providers and third-party databases.
