OpenAthena Core for UAS Terrain-Raycast

OpenAthena Core is Theta Informatics LLC’s newest product which makes OpenAthena’s terrain-raycast technique available as a portable Java software library. This product is designed and licensed to enable you to integrate the software’s novel terrain-raycast technique into your own firm’s solutions.

The functionalities provided by OpenAthena Core represent a significant capability enhancement for your customers. Compared to the legacy Python version of OpenAthena, OpenAthena Core features:

Faster calculation of target coordinates
Ability to locate targets any point off-center within the camera’s visual field
Compatibility with a wider range of drone makes and models
Seamless conversion between EGM96 (height above mean sea level) and WGS84 (height above ellipsoid) vertical datum for significantly improved target calculation accuracy
Other accuracy improvements such as lens distortion correction and camera roll angle correction
Cursor on Target output for integration with ATAK
Ability to parse military DTED Digital Elevation Model (DEM) files in addition to civilian GeoTIFF
Automatic DEM downloading and selection

OpenAthena Core is provided to purchasers as a Java software library with full source code under the LGPLv2.1 license. This permissive open source license allows OpenAthena Core to be integrated as a component of your own proprietary solution. It features both a command line interface and Java bindings for seamless integration:

Additionally: purchasers of OpenAthena-Core are provided a free copy of OpenAthena-Desktop. This is Theta Informatics’ new fully-featured graphical Desktop application which demonstrates the full functionality of OpenAthena-Core.

OpenAthena-Desktop’s source code is provided under the Apache 2.0 open source license, allowing your developers to get up to speed quickly with OpenAthena-Core and integrate it into unprecedented solutions for your customers.