Easily Collect Spatially Referenced Images

GpsTag™ from Red Hen Systems transforms your compatible camera phone into a field data collection device for real world geospatial imagery. GpsTag is a software program that runs on Symbian™ S60 camera phones and works in conjunction with a Bluetooth® GPS device to tag all the images you take with GPS metadata. This metadata includes the location (lat/lon) of where each picture is taken as well as the world standard time (UTC) at the moment the shutter is released. You can use GpsTag to front end various media mapping software applications such as MediaMapper® or PixPoint™ for ArcGIS® from Red Hen Systems or other media-aware mapping systems.

Additional Metadata

In addition to the GPS metadata acquired automatically by GpsTag, you can enter information about each picture, such as the direction and distance to the object of interest or object attributes, using the phone’s keypad.

Supports Rapid Decision Making

GpsTag enables near real time applications of spatial multimedia, such as emergency management and concurrent situational awareness, because spatially referenced images and video clips can be emailed from the field and mapped for review in a command center immediately after they are taken. Instant Spatial Imaging™ (ISI) partners with GpsTag to monitor an email account providing nearly instant refresh and update of information in MediaMapper, Pixpoint, or enterprise server applications. With multiple geospatial camera phones providing images simultaneously, decision makers can literally watch from a remote location as a situation unfolds learning “what is where” through intuitive visualization. When timing is critical, ISI and GpsTag provide a valuable resource for quick and efficient emergency response.

No Post Processing

In applications that do not require real time communication of geospatial imagery from the field, GpsTag simplifies the collection process over previous methods by tagging images with GPS metadata as soon as they are taken, eliminating the post-processing steps required with most other methodologies. The geospatially referenced images stored on the phone’s flash memory card can be transferred to a computer using USB or Bluetooth and mapped using conventional methods.