L-3 Interstate Electronics Corporation introduces micro-handheld VideoScout-MXR

L-3 Interstate Electronics Corporation (L-3 IEC) announced today the release of its new micro-handheld VideoScout-MXR full-motion video processing, exploitation and dissemination (PED) management system. The leading-edge system provides several key intelligence capabilities that warfighters need to effectively utilize video, metadata and user applications, creating a significant operational advantage while keeping them on the move.

The VideoScout-MXR integrates VideoScout Insyte PED management software with the Soldier Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Receiver (SIR) from L-3 Communication Systems-West. SIR provides secure digital and analog multi-band reception, including L-, S- and C-band frequencies, with the ability to support Ku-bands in 2011.

VideoScout-MXR enables forward personnel to directly receive, exploit and disseminate video and telemetry data from multiple ISR sensors and air platforms, such as manned aircraft and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The system's small, portable form factor, multi-band analog/digital radios, with full PC functionality that supports Microsoft Windows applications, offer mobile dismounted personnel a video exploitation system with greatly enhanced capabilities.

"Our new VideoScout-MXR provides warfighters with a compact, easy-to-use tool, allowing them to exploit their video anytime, anywhere," said Larry Vernec, senior director of marketing and strategic business development at L-3 IEC. "Users can better leverage captured imagery, as well as their own applications, to create actionable video for on-the-move mission execution, planning and post-mission analysis."

Mr. Vernec also noted, "VideoScout-MXR is compatible with and includes the same easy-to-use exploitation software as other VideoScout products currently fielded by US forces, including the Marine Corps."

L-3's VideoScout-MXR allows personnel to capture, display and record live video with full DVR features, extract actionable subset video, create JPEG and NITF image files with metadata for reference and dissemination, and annotate and archive video and images for easy search, retrieval and dissemination. To allow INTEL operations to share a common view of the battlespace, VideoScout-MXR can be connected to a network, large monitors, keyboards or peripherals to create a full, shared workstation environment. The MXR can receive multiple simultaneous video feeds when connected to a network - one via RF through a remotely placed antenna, and the others from the network.

L-3's VideoScout-MXR supports applications that include mission planning, targeting and mapping, where users can geo-locate video using common mapping software, such as FalconView, while remaining on the move, or with Google Earth when connected to a network. Users can view incoming video and associated maps side by side with vehicle position, path and field of view plotted in real time. Tactical INTEL personnel can locate previously recorded videos and images by using multiple search features or by simply selecting a desired area on a map.

Source: L-3 IEC

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