Teleplan Globe - MARIA - High Performance Digital Map Application and Geographical Information System

Teleplan was established in 1959. The company has constantly focused on delivering high performance products and services to the global defence and telecom industry. That focus has today made us one of Norway’s most significant exporters and most sought after company within the defence and civil sector. In demonstrating our capabilities year in, year out, we have been an indispensable partner and sub-contractor for companies known from the international arena for decades.

HIGH PERFORMANCE GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)

With our high performance digital map application, MARIA, we have brought Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to a professional level. Our desire to meet the high standards set by our customers has generated an application with flexibility and modularity. As a consequence many unclassified civilian organisations and users have also put their eyes on MARIA, when high-speed interaction and flexibility is important. MARIA can be configured to meet a wide range of operator’s and operational unit’s needs, and the user interface is setting new standards for simplifying situational complexity.

OPTIMISED SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

MARIA is built to satisfy military response requirements and is the answer to situational awareness. The ability to display tactical data (i.e. according to MIL-STD 2525B) ensures correct use of symbology. You are able to organise and visualise multiple tracks and units (i.e. vehicles, vessels and aircrafts) in real-time utilising standard symbols (i.e. APP6 A, NTDS and STANAG 4420) as well as user defined objects. MARIA has been optimised to update, handle, analyse and record combinations of several thousand tracks and units each second. Past or planned track information can be stored for replay or de-briefing.

SPATIAL MANAGEMENT MODULES

Integrating our modules for Audio Visual (AV) information, metrological information (METOC) and warship AIS with tools for radio and radar coverage calculations, height profiles and horizon diagrams dramatically change our assumptions on how to process and use digital maps. MARIA goes beyond other GIS solutions in closing the gap between situational awareness and spatial management.

GIS AND COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS BUILDING BLOCK

As a systems building block MARIA has been used as the GIS component as well as the core upon which a full command and control system has been developed. Our reference list reflects MARIA’s capabilities and design smartness. MARIA stands on its own feet as a GIS system but you will be astonished how easy it can be used as a building block to meet your challenges building a command and control system.

PROGRAMMING AND NETWORK INTERFACE

MARIA has programming and network interfaces that make it easy for developers to add or edit functionality with their own development tools as well as linking it to interact with other systems through a Network Server Service (NSS). You can integrate MARIA with weapon control systems, databases, radar, GPS, Link 1, Link 11, Link 14 and Link 16 among others, and as a consequence MARIA is also well suited for the network centric warfare concept.

MARIA PRODUCT LINE

• MARIA Desktop is our standalone, peer and client/server solution.
• MARIA Web Server is our solution for GIS information publishing, and supports OGW web map services - MARIA Web Server is an ideal solution for clients with bandwith or process limitations
• PocketMARIA enables situational awareness to special task forces and in the field operations using standard or rugged PDAs
• MARIA Component SDK is our Software Development Kit (SDK) providing an interface and the tools to use MARIA as a component in a third party application as well as enhance functionality

COTS SOLUTIONS AND COST BENEFIT

In almost any industry we see a trend to utilizing COTS products to optimise cost-benefit requirement analysis. If you care about moving and delivering according to stringent demands, MARIA is the means to that end. MARIA runs on Intel based PC’s running Microsoft Windows 2000/XP.

We have the experience and knowledge already deployed in our COTS products to start that motion.

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