Product Brochure
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RainDrop
is the warfighter’s precise positioning tool-of-choice – operationally proven
for accuracy in five major conflicts. The progression to RainStorm provides the
underlying architecture to support evolving time-sensitive requirements.
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An
enhanced user interface supports network-centric processing, an essential
component of Time-Critical Targeting.
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Enhanced User Toolset: Image Database Management: provides logical association of images for convenient retrieval. Image databases are stored in the current working session. Image Link: synchronizes the location of multiple images by scroll bar movements, ghost cursor, and/or display of stored features. Go to Coordinate: easily navigate to any referenced feature, center of any open window, or a user-specified coordinate. Multiple Image Point (MIP): enables precise positioning using multiple image sources. Coordinates can be calculated with or without the use of high resolution stereo imagery. Image Registration: provides a method to adjust a single target image to high resolution stereo imagery. Target images can be national or tactical. Adjustment improves overall mensuration accuracy. Support Image Formats: NITF (including national and high resolution stereo imagery), JPEG/JPEG 2000, TIFF/GeoTIFF, and RAS. Real-Time CE/LE Reporting: derives latitude/longitude, elevation, and error estimates as the cursor moves over the image and reports values on the status bar. |
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User Interface: Multiple Document Interface: opens multiple images simultaneously to provide greater flexibility in operator workflow. Image Roam and Scroll Bars: allow the user to quickly move the image to the desired location. Expanded Status and Tool Bars: additional reporting on the status bar, plus a standardized toolbar with new tool buttons designed to speed up productivity without being intrusive. Graphical Feature Overlays: provide a logical association of features. An overlay is created and stored in the current session. Available features can be added to the overlay, which can then be toggled to display on selected imagery. |
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Data Manipulation: Excel Export: exports target data in a Comma Separated Values (CSV) format. Target Detail Report (TDR): enhanced by providing additional data and optional inclusion of Desired Points of Impact (DPIs) only in the report. |
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Web Services RainStorm Web Services allow multiple RainStorm workstations and clients to be linked in a network configuration. Systems can be configured using a Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), or the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) environment. A Windows Server running IIS and SQL Server is required to host the RainStorm Web Services and System Coordinator. Client machines communicate through the RainStorm Client Web Services (RCWS). The RainStorm Server Web Services (RSWS) coordinate the registering and un-registering of RainStorm workstations and resulting coordinate information. The RainStorm Systems Coordinator acts as a scheduler using load-balancing algorithms. As new requests from clients arrive, they are assigned to registered workstations. A priority scheme allows time-sensitive targeting requests to take precedence or interrupt lower-priority requests that may already be in progress. As workstations complete mensuration requests, they are sent back to the Web Server, which passes the results onto the requesting client. The Coordinator also keeps a log of results suitable for an audit trail. |
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using industry standards and the latest Web Service techniques, communication
with RainStorm is virtually limitless. This allows collaboration with mission
planning tools to compress the “kill chain.”
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This audit trail, and the ability to produce HTML documents, allows Targeteers to save DPI graphics, image captures of the target area, and Excel spread-sheets to a single identified Web Page for the use of post-strike analysis, thus providing a centralized Battle Damage Assessment (BDA). This capability also provides a central location to pull data for collection decks for tactical and strategic imagery sources. All communication is accomplished using industry standard messages. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) can be requested from the RainStorm Web Server to generate proxy classes for Web Service clients. |
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Multiple Interfaces Web Services: open interface used to retrieve and process coordinate mensuration requests–used by the Automated Deep Operations Coordination System (ADOCS), the Joint Global Command and Control System (GCCS-J), and others. Socket-Based API: legacy API from RainDrop, which provides a basic set of functions allowing interaction with the RainStorm application–used by FalconView and others. Extensible Markup Language (XML): open interface to read and write XML documents via command line options–used by the Integrated Targeting Planning Tool Set (ITPTS), ADOCS, and others. |
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Minimum Operating Requirements
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