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3 reveal the concealed IN A WORLD OF SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS, catching a criminal suspect on video isn t much of a problem. For law enforcement and homeland security, the real challenge is analyzing the captured video. Often, the video is multiplexed beyond the average system s capabilities. Poor lighting, fog, smog, and haze often deny officials the clear look of the suspect they need, and extracting a usable still image can be next to impossible. Not with Intergraph s patented technology. We have taken the technology for video enhancement and analysis to a whole new level of clarity, user-friendliness, versatility, and affordability with Intergraph s Video Analyst. The product offers law enforcement and security personnel an incredibly rich suite of tools featuring Intergraph s unparalleled Image Registration technology to capture, analyze, and edit all types of videos with unprecedented detail and clarity. In fact, Video Analyst is compatible with analog and digital video-capture technologies, allowing it to not only translate any format, but also to reveal in much greater detail objects and events contained within the video footage. Video Analyst offers another critical advantage: an easy-to-learn, highly intuitive user interface. Running on the Microsoft Windows operating system and built on commercial off-the-shelf video editing software Adobe Premiere, you can be up and running with Video Analyst in as little as a few hours. So whether it s for law enforcement, security, or general surveillance applications, when you need to clarify evidence, Video Analyst gives you the absolute cutting edge of excellence you need without cutting deeply into your budget. 1

Poor lighting, fog, smog, and haze often deny officials the clear look of the suspect they need, and extracting a usable still image can be next to impossible.

4 Charlotte, North Carolina, USA A man was murdered in his home during a robbery. Numerous witnesses described the clothing that the suspected robber was wearing, but not the individual. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg police arrested several suspects, but questions still persisted about who killed the victim and who was wearing which clothing. Prosecutors needed to connect one of the suspects to the identified clothing on the night of the murder. During the investigation, it was determined that the suspects were in a nearby convenience store an hour before the murder took place. Surveillance cameras at the store captured the suspects on tape, but the images were of poor quality and too dark to make a positive identification. Using Intergraph s Video Analyst System the images were deinterlaced, magnified, and brightened, clearly revealing the identified clothing and the suspect. Without this [video] evidence, we would not have been able to identify the triggerman. Detective Joel McNelly Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department 2

Prosecutors needed to connect one of the suspects to the identified clothing on the night of the murder.

5 Prior Superior technology Video Analyst is the only technology of its kind to offer Intergraph s precise registration tool VARegister. This tool gives you crime-solving advantages in image clarity and stabilization (as close as 0.2 pixels) that are simply unmatched anywhere. In addition, we ve engineered Video Analyst to let you enhance and edit without disturbing the original footage. Video Analyst achieves this superior performance with an impressive list of features more than any other system on the market. They include: Uncompressed video support Intuitive drag-and-drop tools Demultiplexing an unlimited number of cameras at once Deinterlacing Resizing Brightening Dehaze (patented technology) Frame averaging Pixel-to-pixel comparison Edge detection Audio noise filter And much more Video Analyst also comes with the kind of reassuring customer service and extensive warranty that guarantees your complete satisfaction and peace of mind after your purchase. GET ONE-SOURCE SIMPLICITY We ve carefully developed Video Analyst to be more than the leading video enhancement technology; we ve also made it your complete, one-stop turnkey solution. That s why we offer both the software and hardware, plus unequaled customer service available around the clock for your convenience. We also offer intensive training, in your office or ours, to help you hit the ground running. FLEXIBLE CONFIGURATIONS TO MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS Intergraph s Video Analyst offers a range of full-featured capabilities, with multiple system configurations to meet your needs and budget. The Video Analyst Separate Real Time product supports multiplex video systems. This configuration allows separation of individual cameras from a live source, saving out individual files into.avi format. It also generates still-frame images from a video source, enlarging an image and rearranging the order of camera feeds as needed. The Video Analyst product lets you enhance poor-quality video with a powerful set of forensic video tools, including brightening, haze removal, frame averaging, color tracking, and field-to-frame conversion, plus many additional tools. Video Analyst can demultiplex an unlimited number of cameras to uncover hidden evidence. The Video Analyst Tool Set with Intergraph s registration technology to the Intergraph [Video Analyst] System, I would say that 80 percent of the tapes that we would get we would not be able to use had it not been for the Intergraph enhancement system. Detective Gary Chapman Boynton Beach, Florida, Police Department 3

In addition, we ve engineered Video Analyst to let you enhance and edit without disturbing the original footage.

6 Advancing to meet the challenges of modern video data collection enables the full spectrum of video processing, enhancement, and analysis, and image clarification routines produce greater degrees of contrast, allowing easier identification of objects and text from the background. Both of these products run on commercially available hardware running the Microsoft Windows XP operating system and Adobe Premiere Professional. These products provide a complete forensic video analysis package to meet all of your investigative needs. Video Analyst continues to provide the most modern techniques available to help you meet the changing capabilities of modern technology. As an example, our most recent advancement in forensic video analysis technology: Dehaze. Intergraph s revolutionary new patented technology for removing haze from video can bring new details into sharp focus. You may specify an area of interest, rectangle, or ellipse, and apply the haze removal only to the selected area. You may also apply Brighten or Auto Level to restore a more desirable light level after the haze removal process. Especially important for use in video that was captured from unmanned aerial surveillance where fog and haze may be an issue, this technology allows you to bring greater detail into your analytic environment. Intergraph remains committed to keeping you up to date with technology to meet the rapidly changing landscape of today s video collection advances. FROM THE COMPANY THAT S LEADING THE WAY Intergraph is an industry leader in forensic technology solutions. For more than a quarter century, we ve been engineering groundbreaking technologies for law enforcement agencies around the world. Our products and our people are constantly developing new ways to help you get better information faster, in a form that s easier to read or interpret, and using technology that s easily adaptable to your current infrastructure. In addition, we strive to make our sophisticated technologies easier to learn for quicker adoption by your agency personnel. In fact, Video Analyst is the enhancement technology used by the FBI, CIA, Army Crime Lab, the U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. State Department, and law enforcement departments all around the world. 4

Both of these products run on commercially available hardware running the Microsoft Windows XP operating system and Adobe Premiere Professional.

7 About intergraph Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph s industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data to make processes and infrastructure better, safer and smarter. The company s software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world. Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I). Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction, operation and data management of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered solutions, including ERDAS technologies, to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation responsible for the SG&I U.S. federal and classified business. Intergraph is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB, (Nordic exchange: HEXA B) and (Swiss exchange: HEXN). For more information, visit and 5

The company s software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around

8 Intergraph Corporation. All rights reserved. Intergraph, the Intergraph logo, and Video Analyst are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other products and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners. PSF-US-0076B-ENG 12/11

Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries.

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