Galdos and TENET Complete Ministry of Defence Contract

Galdos Systems Inc. (Canada) and TENET Defence Ltd (UK) have successfully completed the integration of multiple geospatial data across the UK Ministry of Defence into a single source through the use of open-standard web services.

The integrated Spatial Data Infrastructure system draws multiple datasets (AML 2.1, DAFIF8, VMAP0) from multiple data stores (Oracle Spatial, ArcSDE) using two Galdos Cartalinea Web Feature Service (WFS) servers. Map information is retrieved from WFS by both the thin viewing client Galdos FreeStyler Web Map Service (WMS) and the Tenet Chartlink4D Spatial Analysis Client.

TENET Defence, who produce geospatial technology used in many of the worlds most advanced mission planning and situational awareness systems, believes that the general adoption of the standards that underpin SDI will bring massive benefits to defence systems in allowing them to meet users needs. TENET is already supplying solutions, which integrate firmly into SDI frameworks and see collaboration with partners such as Galdos as the key to success.
Galdos’ Professional Services department assists organisations and government agencies move to an open standards-based IT infrastructure. In particular, Galdos offers extensive knowledge in the areas of GML, XML and web services technologies.