BAE Systems Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP) and Vantor are trying to solve one of the most persistent challenges on the battlefield: maintaining accurate drone video targeting when GPS signals are unavailable.
To do this, the companies are introducing a new capability that combines Vantor’s Raptor vision-based software suite with the GXP software ecosystem.
At the core of the integration is Raptor Sync, which georegisters live full-motion video from a drone camera against Vantor’s onboard 3D terrain database in real time.
This alignment improves coordination across sensor inputs and supports more consistent geolocation data, with accuracy of less than three meters (10 feet).
By injecting corrected Key-Length-Value data from Raptor directly into the drone’s video stream at the edge, the system improves quality before the information is processed in GXP software.
This also helps correct inaccurate positioning data, enabling analysts to generate more precise targeting information and support real-time mission decisions.
Addressing the Core Issue
The growing use of low-cost drones with limited sensor quality, combined with widespread GPS spoofing and jamming, has made traditional video-based intelligence less reliable.
Inaccurate positional data in tactical video feeds can create what analysts describe as “targeting paralysis,” where high-resolution imagery is available but cannot be reliably mapped to ground coordinates.
The integration is designed to address this by enabling drones to generate more accurate ground coordinates and maintain usable intelligence even when onboard sensors are degraded.
“Analysts cannot afford to lose confidence in where a target actually is,” said Paul Millhouse, senior director of Raptor products at Vantor.
“By using Raptor to correct video before it enters the GXP Ecosystem, we’re enhancing the performance of existing and new drone fleets. The result is a more resilient workflow for extracting accurate ground coordinates and maintaining operational tempo.”
The capability will be demonstrated at the GXP360° Professional Exchange & Workshop in California.
