It provides approximately 450,000 data points per square kilometer, with typical accuracy of 60 cm or better in the XY plane and 30 cm or better in the vertical dimension. The pulses are reflected back to the aircraft by ground features. TerraPoint runs internally developed postprocessing software on the SGI Origin 200 servers to merge the three inputs into a single data set. Together they provide a precise measurement of ground features that has attracted customers worldwide whose businesses demand high-resolution modeling and mapping of terrain features. We can have 16GB per day coming into our shop for processing.
Draw times are important.
The labor cost of visual quality control becomes significant if you have to wait 10 or 15 minutes. So rendering speed is one reason why we acquired SGI Origin family technology. The company has just acquired an additional 4TB SGI Fibre Channel RAID for a total of 6TB of storage, which is deployed in a storage area network environment to provide high-speed data access between the servers and the workstations. Leveraging SGI Technology TerraPoint selected SGI technology for its throughput, massive storage capability, and compute power. But SGI will play another critical role in TerraPoint's growth.