Inside the Humvee at night
Geospatial holograms used in commercial and government applications typically enhance conventional 2D maps, aerial photos, and 3D physical scale models. Complex environments can be well understood using geospatial holograms much faster than with conventional 2D media. General commercial and governmental uses include the following:
- Spatial Planning
- Project Planning
- Land and Real Estate Development
- Industrial Process Planning
- Event Logistics (e.g. determining a secure route for VIPs)
- Before- and After-action Briefing and Debriefing
- Emergency Management
- Undersea and extra-terrestrial planetary visualization
Easily Transportable for use in-the-field
Imagers and dynamic displays are also available for use with geospatial data (for more information, please see the
product section of this website).
Department of Defense (DoD) applications include:
- Mapping the “common operating picture”
- Battle-space visualization
- Mission/rescue/evasion/logistics planning
- Intelligence and reconnaissance
- Force protection planning
- Anti-urban terrorism prevention planning
- Simulation of terrorist activity
- Line-of-site analysis for sniper activity
- Evacuation and recovery planningy
- Damage assessment and damage estimation
- Human Intelligence (HUMINT)
Thousands of Zebra holographic geospatial maps have been shipped for US military use.
Please contact us to schedule a non-classified demonstration or to find out more. Security status may have to be verified, depending on application needs.
Geospatial Data Sources
Most digital 3D volumetric data formats can be accepted including Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) in GeoTIFF format at Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) level 5 ( 1M Building detail) or level 4 (5M Terrain detail) typical produced from LIDAR scan. As for Electro-Optical (EO) visible imagery to enhance the GeoTIFF DEM files, we can accept Ortho-rectified images in GeoTIFF format that originate from providers including World View 1 (50 cm), Quickbird (60 cm), Geo-Eye 1 (41 cm), IKONOS (DTED 4 only, 1 M), and Buckeye ( 10 cm). 3D Model formats that can be accepted easily include VRML, OpenFlight, OSG, and IVE. If you are unable to export data to any of these formats, please contact us for additional options.
See also: Architecture
Conventional 2D imagery use augmented with 3D holograms
Animated motion video annotation projected onto hologram
Operations center planning illustration
Color geospatial terrain hologram with transparent overlay
Color geospatial terrain hologram
