AIMES Software

Real-Time ISR Stream Processing and Distribution

AIMES PICTE™ is a powerful stream management software solution for receiving video feeds transmitted over networks. Supporting multiple video, audio, and metadata standards in real-time, AIMES PICTE enables users to condition, enhance, and transcode streams before distributing them to AIMES Exploit, AIMES Server, or third-party applications for broader dissemination. With a user-friendly, web-based interface, users can easily manage feed setup, configuration, monitoring, and distribution of video feeds from numerous sources, ensuring seamless integration with AIMES Exploit for enhanced workflows.

Key Capabilities

• Massive Scalability: Supports an unlimited number of live video feeds
• Dual Storage: Simultaneous data distribution to two separate storage arrays
• Stream Conditioning: Validates and normalizes incoming video streams for consistency and quality
• Transcoding: Converts video into optimized formats and bitrates
• Metadata Dissemination: Distributes video feed metadata across multiple formats and delivery mechanisms
• Standards Compliant: Fully aligned with GMSB/MISB and NCGIS/GWG standards for FMV
• Flexible Deployment: Supports cloud, virtualized, and bare-metal environments
• Architecture: Native support for Windows, Red Hat Linux, and RHEL/Rocky containers

Enterprise Mission Archive and Replay

AIMES Server™ is an advanced solution designed for capturing live video feeds while efficiently cataloging and indexing MISP compliant motion imagery in near real-time (NRT). It features an intuitive web interface for tracking system resource usage and ingestion anomalies. By utilizing Key Length Value (KLV) metadata, AIMES Server synchronizes video with supplementary data streams, enabling precise correlation and in-depth analysis. Its integrated database facilitates the archiving, indexing, and geospatial correlation of various data types, including AIMES PICTE feed messages, MISP-compliant video segments, Video Motion Target Indicator (VMTI) data (MISB 0903), NITFS-compliant still imagery, and analyst-generated chat or callout text.

AIMES Server provides versatile storage solutions, supporting local storage, Network Attached Storage (NAS), cloud storage, and various distributed database technologies. Its dynamic architecture allows customers to scale seamlessly by adding or removing server nodes and storage as their system grows, encounters failover conditions, or connects/disconnects from larger enterprise infrastructures. Whether deployed in cloud-based, virtualized, containerized, or bare-metal environments, AIMES Server ensures a unified “one-stop” discovery and playback experience, empowering intelligence analysts with the tools they need for efficient and scalable video data management.

Key Capabilities

• Standardized Storage: Securely stores MISB-compliant video slices and NITF images searchable through AIMES Exploit client
• KLV Synchronization: Aligns video with external metadata for accurate correlation and playback
• Web-Based Monitoring: Tracks system resource usage and ingestion health through an intuitive web interface
• Configurable Archive: Supports user-defined retention windows, such as 30 days, 90 days, or longer
• Interoperable Access: Supports OGC-compliant geospatial queries and web services
• Flexible Deployment: Supports cloud, virtualized, and bare-metal environments
• Architecture: Native support for Windows, Red Hat Linux, and RHEL/Rocky container

Accelerated FMV Exploitation and Intelligence Production

AIMES Exploit™ is a sophisticated software solution for real-time screening, analysis, and exploitation of imagery and data, empowering users to retrieve, replay, query, and analyze complete archived missions. With full video playback controls and frame-by-frame analysis, users can precisely review and dissect mission footage for detailed insights. Equipped with powerful tools for tagging, plotting, reviewing, and exporting key objects and events within video, AIMES Exploit supports NATO APP-6 (MIL-STD-2525) joint military symbology, ensuring precision and standardization in mission-critical workflows.

Enhancing situational awareness, AIMES Exploit features a Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Viewer and Video Moving Target Indicator (VMTI) tool. The GEOINT Viewer integrates third-party ArcGIS, Web Map Tile Service (WMTS), and Web Map Service (WMS) support, enabling users to visualize tracks, stare-points, and data layers for near real-time (NRT) mission context. The VMTI tool parses and visualizes MISB 0903 object detection data, supporting Activity-Based Intelligence (ABI) and Structured Observation Management (SOM) analysis and reporting paradigms.

The latest version of AIMES Exploit introduces collaborative capabilities, allowing users to share and edit products efficiently through a shared work tray feature. Additionally, metadata-driven functionality enables the identification of previous reports, providing enhanced situational awareness and facilitating pattern-of-life analysis. AIMES Exploit is the ultimate tool for intelligence professionals seeking to streamline workflows, improve decision-making, and maximize mission success.

Key Capabilities

• Frame-by-frame forensic analysis of mission video and imagery
• Advanced search capabilities across active and archived feeds using missions, slant counts, locations, dates, keywords, callouts, and VMTI detections
• GEOINT Map Viewer with third-party WMS/WMF support for real-time situational awareness (Esri® ArcGIS, KML, track visualization)
• VMTI analysis tools for parsing and visualizing MISB 903 object detection data
• Full playback of archived missions
• Redaction tools for removing sensitive or unwanted details from video
• Shared Work Tray collaboration across exploitation clients
• Video Producer to create custom video products tailored to intelligence workflows
• Chat Ingest with automatic event tagging and callout management

Video Intelligence and Stream Refinement

AIMES VISR™ is a powerful add-on to AIMES Exploit, designed to enhance video and image quality for full motion video (FMV) analysis and optimized product creation. By leveraging advanced algorithms, analytics, and innovative models, users can create custom video processing pipelines that unlock deeper insights, deliver superior visual performance, and drive product development. AIMES VISR offers cutting-edge capabilities, including super-resolution image scaling, video stabilization, data conditioning, burn-in removal, noise reduction, and advanced analytical processing, enabling users to uncover hidden details and achieve exceptional clarity in video workflow.

Key Capabilities

• Enhances video and imagery using advanced algorithms, analytics, and AI-driven models
• Builds customizable processing pipelines tailored to mission and sensor requirements
• Improves image quality to reveal obscured details and increase analyst confidence

• Accelerates intelligence production by delivering higher-quality imagery for analysis and product creation

   

AIMES VISR Pro™ is our new cutting-edge streaming solution that leverages algorithms, analytics, and innovative models to enhance video and help uncover obscured details. With flexible stream-by-stream configuration, AIMES VISR Pro enables users to design and customize dynamic video pipelines for transforming and rebroadcasting near real-time (NRT) streams. When integrated with AIMES PICTE, the platform enables users to generate and distribute tailored video feeds across their enterprise, unlocking new possibilities for video-driven insights and engagement.

Why AIMES VISR Pro? AIMES VISR Pro is more than just a video software solution, it’s a tactical advantage for organizations that demand actionable intelligence, operational precision, and enterprise-wide collaboration. By combining cutting-edge technology with ease of use, AIMES VISR Pro ensures that your video streams are transformed into effective intelligence, enabling faster and more informed decision-making in critical missions.

Key Capabilities

• Enhances live video streams using advanced algorithms, analytics, and AI-driven models to improve image quality and reveal obscured details
• Designs and deploys video intelligence pipelines with flexible, stream-by-stream configuration
• Processes and rebroadcasts enhanced video for seamless integration with downstream ISR systems
• Adapts to diverse mission requirements through configurable, modular video processing workflows 

Advanced Motion Imagery Streaming Simplified

AIMES Restream™ enables users to seamlessly simulate multiple live motion imagery data feeds that adhere to MISP compliance. Designed for modern network environments, the software transmits data efficiently over standard networks using UDP/IP protocols, supporting both unicast and multicast configurations. With intelligent transmission rate control, AIMES Restream ensures precise replication of original feed behavior, preventing network congestion and optimizing performance for downstream systems and equipment.

Seamless Data Stream Redirection and Management

AIMES Reflector™ simplifies the redirection of UDP and TCP data streams, enabling users to route data from one IP address and port to another with ease. Supporting both unicast and multicast UDP streams, as well as TCP client-server connections, AIMES Reflector offers versatile compatibility for modern network configurations. Whether redirecting streaming video or other data across local networks, the software provides users with the flexibility to intercept, manage, and cast streams between locations using TCP protocols. AIMES Reflector is the ideal solution for efficient and reliable data stream control across diverse network environments.