The
Intterra Airborne/Satellite
Intel Tool provides
near real-time access to view
vector products (such as heat
perimeters, retardant lines,
hots spots, public safety
points), imagery and video
products. Many of these
can be downloaded to share and
use in GIS and other
tools. Live mission
location updates and imagery
are reported in Intterra every
30
seconds.
Click here for a list a
description of product types. Click here to learn more about tracking mission aircraft.
Topics
- Find and monitor a mission
- Select a mission and view
products
- Find and select specific
products
- Zoom to, copy, archive, hide
To get started, Select the Tools
Menu. The Air Intel
Tool and/or Satellite Intel Tool is usually in
both the Operations and
Plans/Intel workspaces. Select the desired tool.
Find and monitor a mission
The tool opens with a list of
missions. To find and monitor a
mission of interest -
- Click on Missions, Incidents, or Nearby to
view the list of missions by most
recent, grouped by incident, or
nearby the center of the map
respectively.
- Search by typing in a
mission name, incident, etc to
filter the list of missions.
- A mission summary is provided for
each mission listed
- Mission status colored dot for
planned, airborne,
collecting (recent products from aircraft within the last hour).
- Mission name and date or
minutes/hours old if less than 24
hours.
- Count of products for imagery,
videos, and vector.
- Either distance from the center of
the map or incident name for
all the products including in the
mission.
- Mouseover the mission will provide
mission details
including local time and list of
all incidents.
NOTE:
- Incident name is added to air
intel products automatically based on
the incident name of the
nearest mapped incident feature in
proximity at the time the product was
sent from the aircraft. Therefore,
it's possible for products to have no
name or an incorrect name
applied.
- Nearby distance is based the
extent all the mission's
products. A "- mi" will
display if no products are available
for the mission. The aircraft
icon doesn't count.
Select a mission and view
products
Clicking on a Mission opens an
interactive pane to select,
view, and download that mission's
products.
- The header includes mission
details - name, status,
incidents, local time and data.
- Click on
to zoom to the mission's location and X to close the pane and return to the mission list.
- The map is updated to show the
mission's video locations,
imagery extent outlines, the first
image, and vector products.
An aircraft icon will display if the
mission is active.
- Click on Videos, Images, and Features tabs to change the
product type to preview and
manage.
- The preview window will display
a thumbnail of the video, streaming
video, image, comments, or initial
detection report for the product
selected
from the list - highlighted
blue. Note: Mouseover a
video preview will access functions to
pause, adjust/mute volume, view
expanded, full screen.
- Product list
Example of detection report in
preview.
Example of streaming video
Find and select specific
products
- Click on the product name in
the list to change what is
displayed in the preview.
- The product list and map are
interactive to help you quickly find
the the product you are looking for
based on location. Hovering
over the product highlights
the product's location blue on the
map. Clicking on a feature on
the map will select that
feature in the product list, turn an
imagery layer on if not already
on, and change the
preview.
- The blue bar next to the
product name indicates the product
is visible on the map. To
improve performance, one only imagery
product is displayed on the map (see
note at end of this
article). Clicking the
product name for imagery will
toggle the view on and off on the
map. Videos and features
are always on unless archived (see
below) or turned off in the layers
menu.
NOTE: Image files are
very large. To enhance
performance, a maximum limit has been set
for the number of images
initially loaded. If you load more,
other image files will be
turned off and a popup message will warn
you. The maximum number
of images for a PC is 16, and six for a
mobile device.
Zoom to, copy, archive, hide
A set of tools let you zoom to the
location of the product, download,
copy features such as heat perimeters or
hot spots to the map as
incident mapping, and manage what you see
by archiving (hiding) products
and showing or hiding on imagery outline
on the map.
- Checking the box for a product
displays icons for managing
that product and opens a tool to
select all and to make bulk
changes.
- Mouseover the product provides a data and time and also
displays icons for managing that
product. It also highlights the the
product on the map by changing the
video extent, imagery extent, and
features to blue. This is very helpful
for locating a product for a
specific location.
- Show/hide archived - Users have
the ability to archive (hide)
individual products from the list and
map to reduce clutter. It only
affects our session. Click to toggle
on and off.




Note: Please
follow-up by editing the feature to
add incident name.
Note: New June 2021 - Users can copy multi-point features, i.e. hotspots, structures, etc. Each point will 'paste' as individual features in the map. Check out Multi Point Copy now in Airborne Intel Tool.
