Red Hen’s isWhere 3.1.0 offers fast processing for geotagged imagery

Red Hen Systems has released isWhere 3.1.0, a media mapping add-on tool for viewing geotagged imagery on Google Earth.

isWhere 3.1.0 is for professionals and enthusiasts who want a quick, straightforward, affordable way to view, analyze, compare and organize geotagged videos and their corresponding track logs, the company said.

The decoding and capture speed of isWhere 3.1.0 has increased ten-fold. Its georeferencing capabilities have expanded to include text files and image files. Anyone with a camera and a GPX logger can view a video track on Google Earth using this tool.

Screenshot from isWhere 3.1.0 shows a video tracklog. The larger purple arrow (in the larger red circle) indicates where the video was collected and the video at the top is of that point. The timecodes within the red circles match. A white bubble on the right displays collected data. The window at lower left is used for selecting styles and customizing colors.

isWhere 3.1.0:

• decodes geospatial enabled media 10X times faster than earlier versions
• captures frames 10X faster than with previous versions
• georeferences .doc, .docx, .pdf and all other text files
• georeferences tagged image file format (.tiff)
• displays videos with GPS Exchange Format(.gpx) overlay companion files for Garmin VIRB cameras.

“Our reasons for adding these significant features are twofold,” Director of Software Engineering Bogdan Besfamylnyy said. “We want to improve the user experience by accommodating more file formats and make decoding GEM videos and extracting frames faster.”

“We also want to put isWhere into the hands of those who want to use our tools with video taken with action cameras or cameras from manufacturers who output georeferenced companion files with captured video,” Besfamylnyy said.

Visit the Red Hen website for a video demonstration and to see more screenshots demonstrating isWhere’s capabilities.