Archive earth and space data - Lockheed Missiles and Space uses custom application - Company Operations

Communications News, Nov, 1999 by Carren Bersch

Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space supplies satellite and grounds systems to military, civil government, and commercial organizations around the world, enhancing global communications; providing new, extensive, and timely weather information; and furnishing remote-sensing data for thousands of scientists studying our planet and space. Remote-sensing systems collect vast amounts of data--onerous to store, track, and access--requiring immense storage capacity and sophisticated computing capabilities. But Lockheed's Intelligent Library System (ILS) Version 1.0 can archive very large imagery and data files for a variety of applications, including the tracking of environmental changes, such as beach erosion, natural disasters, or weather patterns, over a period of many years. The interactive digital archiving and analysis solution allows users to manage, retrieve, and distribute over 10 million gigabyte-plus imagery and data files from remote-sensing satellites or other sources.

For large-scale solutions, it integrates shelf, tape jukebox, and redundant arrays of independent disks which provide the equivalent of storing the information found in the Library of Congress more than 30 times over or more than 1,000,000 full-length movies, automatically archiving such data for 10 years or more. The smart tools in ILS Release 1.0 are integrated into a turn-key system that can acquire, track, and disseminate files from a wide variety of sources and formats on-line and on-tape storage totaling 5,000 terabytes or more.

Optimized for geographic information systems, the Intelligent Library also can be configured for applications requiring large data storage, such as medical images, computer-assisted design files, or videos and multimedia. Intelligent Library System uses an open architecture and automated search tools to streamline retrieval and workflow. Since the architecture is tailored and scalable, customers pay only for the quantity and throughput they need.

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