Introducing GeoTime 5.3

Discover Locations. Visualize Communications.
Animated Presentations.


Check out the GeoTime 5.3 - What's New Video Series for an overview of the new features and capabilities in the latest release of GeoTime. 


New Analysis Tools

Discover New Locations of Interest

The Interesting Location Finder is a new analysis tool that locates locations where multiple entities have visited. This is useful for places that receive frequent visits. Users can also set a minimum number of entities to visit a location, as well as the number of times those entities must have visited for it to qualify. Duration at any location can also be set to avoid including locations with quick stops (stopping at street lights for example). 


Results from the new Interesting Location Finder

 


Proximity Finder Enhancements

Added to the proximity finder is the ability to do precise measurement calculations when looking for events or regions that are in close proximity for a period of time. This is useful for locating entities in close proximity to regions or areas. Users can either import shapes or draw their own regions using map annotations.


Enhanced Meeting Finder

The meeting finder has been enhanced to allow users to set meeting durations settings, as well as the ability to ignore small meetings with too few entities. This is helpful when a user needs to reduce the number of smaller meetings that only involve a small number of entities or that have a too short a duration. Users can also now run the meeting finder on only selected entities vs. all entities currently loaded.


Pattern Tools Work On Map Graphics

Pattern finding tools can now be run on map graphics, allowing users to draw a region on the map and look for entities, events or polygons that are within close proximity.


Communications Data Import Wizard

Import Wizard for Call Details Records (CDR)

The new CDR import wizard helps users import complex communication events that contain both source and destination entities but where location information is only provided for one of the entities. The wizard makes importing most communications data a simple process of choosing “calling” and “called” entities.


CDR records imported into GeoTime via the CDR Import Wizard

 


New Source/Destination Swapping Filter

When importing CDR and other communication records, source and destination entities are not always placed in the same columns. These types of complex records can now be imported in GeoTime with a single pass, allowing users to specify which entities records are being imported, as well as ensuring that location information is correctly associated with them.


Map Graphics and Annotations

New GeoCharts Tool

This new tool in GeoTime makes it possible to drive the look and feel of map graphics with your data. Any shape that a user imports or draws on the map can be colored dynamically by their data. Users can choose to use event count or any of the standard statistical functions (sum, average, etc.) to color map graphics. This is useful when users want to show concentrations or “hot spots” on the map.


Flu "hot spots" visualized with new GeoCharts
 

 

Line Measurements and Point Graphics

The line graphic can now be used to measure a path on the map or the distance between two points. The line tool can be used to draw a path and then display the total distance that it covers. This is useful for calculating distances on road systems. The addition of point graphics allows users to create points on the map to display specific locations.


Measure path and route distances with map graphics
  

 

Aggregate with Map Graphics

Any closed shape that a user adds to a tag can be used to aggregate event data in the 3D viewer. With this capability, users can now create a dedicated tag for map graphics that they wish to use for data aggregation. This is useful for aggregating data based on areas such as cities, districts, zones, etc.


Import Map Graphics

Map graphics can now be imported from an external file, allowing users to merge them into an existing data set or re-use them across multiple data sets. This is useful when working with separate files that contain boundaries and borders. Supported file types include shape files, KML (points, lines and polygons), XLS (points only) and GeoRSS.


Annotations Can be Added to Tags

Users can now add annotations to tags, for easy management of annotation visibility and selection.


Annotations Are Now Persistent

Annotations created by the user are now persistent, similar to event objects, until deleted by the user.

64bit Platform Support

Full 64bit Release of GeoTime

Users on Microsoft Windows 7 64bit Edition platform now have access to a native 64bit GeoTime application. This version of GeoTime allows for additional memory allocation, supporting large data sets and enhanced performance
Note: ESRI Table Of Contents map source is not available in the 64bit release of GeoTime.


Import large data sets for analysis with the 64bit release of GeoTime

 


Real Time Memory Monitoring

GeoTime now monitors its memory consumption and will alert the users when available memory is running low. This is useful for situations where users are working with large data sets and need to segment their data into smaller sets.


Real Time monitoring of GeoTime's memory usage

 


Live Data Enhancements

Full Data Feed Loading

The full contents of a live data feed can now be optionally re-read by GeoTime, instead of only loading new events since the last update.


Recent Feed Configuration Settings

When adding a new live data feed, GeoTime will now use the last used feed parameters, such as refresh rate, map fitting options, etc. This saves users time in having to manually set these parameters for each new live data feed.

Other additions and enhancements

Pop-up Window Pinning

Users can now pin informational windows to remain open while performing other tasks.


Label Deconfliction

A new option has been added that works to keep labels in the 3D viewer from overlapping each other. The label deconfliction option works to keep event, entity and link labels spaced apart from each other to prevent overlapping.


Advanced Color Gradients Controls

Users now have the option to set min/max values for how color gradients are applied to events. Users can also set zero as the mid point for applying 3 color gradients. This is useful when working with values that range from negative to positive values.


Tags Used to Aggregate Data

Any closed shape that a user adds to a tag can be used to aggregate event data in the 3D viewer. With this capability, users can now create a dedicated tag for map graphics that they wish to use for data aggregation. This is useful for aggregating data based on areas such as cities, districts, zones, etc.


Report Snapshots Capture All Visibility

Snapshots in reports now capture the visibility of all objects including annotations and map graphics.
 





GEOTIME 5.2 - What's New

Create Presentations. See Statistics. Reveal Entities.

Oculus is pleased to announce GeoTime 5.2, the latest release of the award winning visual analysis tool for movement and linked data. With an emphasis on visual presentations, GeoTime 5.2 introduces new ways to visualize events over time, including the ability to run statistical functions on numerical attributes within your data. These new capabilities are designed to support a variety workflows, including analysis of incident data sets, fraud related activities and communications analysis.


This new release of GeoTime introduces new and enhanced capabilities, including:
  • Interactive video capture and output from GeoTime
  • Histogram of events linked to GeoTime’s timeline
  • Visual Statistics for running basic functions on numerical attributes
  • Create and merge entities within GeoTime


New GeoTime 5.2 features in action


Interactive Video Recording

New to this release is the ability to capture video of your activities within GeoTime. The new recording feature allows users to easily record animated movement, present visual statistics or walk through a report interactively. Users can record animated playback of the timeline as well as user interactions and operations. Captured video files can then be used to produce video content for presentation, reporting, and training purposes.


Timeline Histogram and Visual Statistics

GeoTime 5.2 introduces an “event density” histogram linked to the timeline. This histogram provides a visual count of events over time, displayed as a bar chart next to the timeline. This interactive histogram is based on the timeline’s start and end time, and scales interactively to the time range displayed.

This release also adds the ability to run basic statistical functions on numerical attributes within a data set. Statistical tools now available include average, max, min, median, standard deviation, sum, and range functions. The results are displayed within the Charts panel and can be added to reports.


Histogram
New Event Histogram in GeoTime 5.2

 

Create and Merge Entities

GeoTime users can now create new entities from a selection of events within GeoTime. Users can also select events from multiple selected entities and merge them into a single entity. Selected events can also be split from an existing entity to create a new entity from that selection.


Merge Entities
Merging two entities into a single individual