FEATURES

Platforms Supported

• Silicon graphics
• Sun
• HP
• Linux

Map data currently supported for ESMS with SPRE

• Military: ADRG, DTED, DCW, WVS, DFAD
• Non-military: TIGER, DEM, LULC, GNIS, DLG, WDBII Images, including scanned paper maps

Map data currently supported by ESMS

• VMAP (Level 0), WVS Plus
• ESRI Shapefile
• CADRG
• GeoTiff

Map data routines currently supported through APIs

• GeoTiff
• NITF
• ESMS maintains the older FORTRAN compatible APIs as well as the new C/C++ API developer tools.

ESMS Developer Tools

• C-Callable Subroutine Interface: ESMS provides over 400 routines callable from C language. All SMS and SMS+ capabilities provided by ESMS are accessible through this subroutine interface.  ESMS has several new APIs which are avaible through the new API set
• Interactive Command Language (ICL): The ICL provides the ESMS rapid prototyping capabilities. The ICL uses English -like grammar with built-in tools for variable and symbol defintion.
• Interactive Map Data Preprocessor: The SMS Preprocessor (SPRE) reads a variety of map data sources and builds the World Map Database that is converted to ESMS frames. During the application run time, the SMS+ interacts only with the preprocessed map  database for high performance. SPRE is also available as a  stand-alone package with its on graphical user interface (GUI). The stand-alone version of SPRE is called the SPRE GUI.

ESMS Map Display & Analysis Capabilities

• Multiple map control
• Panning and zooming
• Overlay management and display control
• Map color control
• Map projections: Mercator, pseudo-universal transverse, polar sterographic, Lambert confromal, conic.
  Grid display: latitude, longitude, Georef, UTM, and surface elevation grids.
• Terrain shading: slope, elevation, peak, and shadow shading
• Line of sight: terrain masking, both ground and air line of sight
• Cross section analysis
• Object drawing and management including linking objects and object tracking