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The GeoScapeSE Europe Database Includes
1,358 Geocells of Coverage Using 15 Meter Harris ImageLinks
Global Data Set Imagery |
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The GeoScapeSE Europe
Database Gaming Area is Over
1,300 Square Degrees
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LONDON, UK — May
16th, 2006 — Quantum3D®, Inc., a leading provider
of open architecture, realtime 3D visual computing solutions for
the Visual and Sensor Simulation and Training (VSST) and Embedded
Visual Computing (EVC) markets, announced today at the ITEC 2006
Conference that the Company is now developing a Europe-wide geospecific
database for deployment with Quantum3D Independence® IG Solutions.
The GeoScapeSE™ Europe database is the newest member of
GeoScapeSE, Quantum3D’s library of precision, Commercial-Off-The-Shelf
(COTS) synthetic environment databases for commercial and military
aviation simulation and training applications.
GeoScapeSE Europe leverages the GeoScapeSE library’s
unique, open architecture approach to meeting customer needs,
by providing a geospecific, high resolution imagery backdrop that
may then be tailored by Quantum3D customers by adding their own
legacy or newly-developed detailed Areas of Interest (AOIs) including
civilian and military airfields and training areas using a simple,
incremental database update procedure. GeoScapeSE Europe customers
can, for the first time ever, realize the benefits of having a
high-performance, high-fidelity, low-cost Europe-wide database
to which they can add program-specific value, while retaining
ownership and control.
GeoScapeSE Europe Release 1.0 Contents
GeoScapeSE Europe features a gaming area of over 1,300 square
degrees (1,358 geocells) and will cover essentially all of Europe
and some adjacent land masses. Based on ImageLinks™ 15 Meter
Global Data Set mosaic photo imagery from Harris® Corporation,
the new GeoScapeSE Europe database represents the highest resolution,
highest fidelity COTS geospecific solution available today.
GeoScapeSE Europe also includes a Quantum3D
developed AOI of Kranebitten International Airport (INN/LOW) in
Innsbruck, Austria using 1 and 5 meter geospecific imagery and
2D/3D models of the airport environment designed to meet JAA/FAA
Level D certification. The INN/LOWI AOI, along with other AOIs
developed by Quantum3D at customer request, employs imagery that
is fully color balanced, orthorectified, and feathered between
the base and AOIs to provide seamless transitions between resolutions
during training operations.
GeoScapeSE Europe also includes a collection
of ten (10) popular military or civilian Quantum3D Facets®
COTS Realtime 3D Models that are optimized for 60 Hz operation,
which enables Independence IG customers to accelerate their integration
efforts and save on program costs. Additional AOIs and Facets
models are available by customer request.
“Customer feedback on our GeoScapeSE approach
that enables training system providers to add their own AOIs or
contract with Quantum3D to do so has been extremely positive,
since it eliminates the proprietary lock on databases that has
haunted the vis-sim market forever,” said Ross Q. Smith,
Quantum3D president and co-founder. “With GeoScapeSE Europe,
we believe that our training system integration customers and
their end-users will greatly benefit from this open-architecture
approach to saving time and cost, while still delivering the highest
fidelity and performance in the industry.”
Unique Open Architecture DBGS Methodology
As with all GeoScapeSE databases, GeoScapeSE Europe employs a
unique, tiled architecture that enables incremental updates of
subset areas of the database without having to recompile the entire
database. This capability enables rapid database updates for mission
rehearsal applications while simultaneously facilitating customer
tailoring of the database to meet program-specific needs in a
completely open-architecture environment. This time and cost saving
feature enables GeoScapeSE customers as well as Quantum3D to readily
add, modify or delete AOIs-- including FAA/JAA Level D airports,
military airfields and training areas – without affecting
the surrounding terrain.
Developed using Quantum3D’s CatalystSE™
Database Generation System and Celerity™ synthetic environment
database publisher, GeoScapeSE Europe is optimized for 60 Hz operation
on Independence IG Solutions. GeoScapeSE Europe also features
Quantum3D’s value-added Scene Transition Artifact Reduction
Technology (START), which minimizes Level of Detail transition
artifacts by Z-morphing the underlying terrain and texture smoothly
in realtime. Together, these optimizations result in a unique
combination of unparalleled fidelity and assured 60 Hz performance
for maximum training value. Quantum3D will be demonstrating select
databases from the GeoScapeSE library on Independence IG solutions
at ITEC 2006 in the Quantum3D stand (#214) and in the BARCO stand
(#240).
Pricing and Availability
Release 1.0 of the GeoScapeSE Europe OTW database features an
international MSRP of $17,500 USD when purchased with an Independence
IG Solution. GeoScapeSE Europe OTW is supported on Independence
IG Solutions equipped with NVIDIA® QuadroFX® 4000 or later
graphics subsystems, including IDX 2000, IDX 2500 and IDX 2500
TI IGs. Additional Quantum3D-provided customer-specific AOIs and/or
Facets models are priced separately based on customer requirements—consult
Quantum3D for details. Delivery for GeoScapeSE Europe is 90 days
ARO.
About Quantum3D
Quantum3D develops and markets COTS realtime, open-architecture
IG solutions, embedded visual computing systems and subsystems,
development software and support services for the VSST and EVC
markets and is a value-added supplier of NVIDIA® graphics
technology for the embedded military and aerospace visual computing
market. Quantum3D is a privately held company headquartered in
San Jose, California, with development centers located in Phoenix,
AZ, Huntsville, AL, and Orlando, FL and with sales and logistics
in Europe via Quantum3D Ltd., located in Reading, UK. For more
information about Quantum3D and the Quantum3D family of open architecture
realtime visual computing solutions, please see www.quantum3d.com.
Quantum3D, Facets and Independence
are registered trademarks and GeoScapeSE, CatalystSE, and Celerity
are trademarks of Quantum3D, Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
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