The capability is designed to address growing operational challenges caused by inexpensive unmanned aerial systems equipped with lower-quality sensors and increasingly widespread GPS spoofing and jamming in modern conflict zones. According to the companies, inaccurate geographic metadata in drone video feeds has increasingly undermined precision targeting and intelligence operations despite the availability of high-quality imagery.
The integration incorporates Vantor’s Raptor Sync software, which georegisters full-motion video from a drone’s onboard camera with three-dimensional terrain data in real time. The companies stated that the process enables downstream intelligence fusion within the GXP ecosystem, interoperability across different sensors and accurate extraction of ground coordinates with demonstrated accuracy of less than three metres.
According to the companies, corrected Key-Length-Value metadata generated by Raptor is inserted directly into drone video feeds at the tactical edge before exploitation within GXP software. This process overrides inaccurate telemetry data, enabling analysts to extract weapon-quality coordinates and support intelligence and targeting operations in real time.
Kurt de Venecia, senior director of product development at BAE Systems GXP, said: “In contested environments, the sensor’s imagery and video collections are only half the battle; the accuracy of the data it produces is what determines mission success.”
“By including Raptor directly into our GXP intelligence workflows, we are providing analysts with the ability to maintain absolute targeting confidence, even when the platform’s systems or inertial sensors lack high absolute accuracy,” de Venecia added.
Paul Millhouse, senior director of Raptor products at Vantor, said: “Analysts cannot afford to lose confidence in where a target actually is.”
“By using Raptor to correct video before it enters the GXP Ecosystem, we’re enhancing the performance of existing and new drone fleets. The result is a more resilient workflow for extracting accurate ground coordinates and maintaining operational tempo,” Millhouse added.
BAE Systems said its GXP software supports the rapid discovery, exploitation and dissemination of mission-critical geospatial data for military, security and incident-response operations. Vantor stated that its broader spatial intelligence platform combines satellite imagery and real-time sensor feeds from space, air and ground systems to create an artificial intelligence-ready digital representation of Earth for defence, intelligence and commercial users.
