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NV5 Geospatial Blog

Each month, NV5 Geospatial posts new blog content across a variety of categories. Browse our latest posts below to learn about important geospatial information or use the search bar to find a specific topic or author. Stay informed of the latest blog posts, events, and technologies by joining our email list!


Mapping Earthquake Deformation in Taiwan With ENVI

Mapping Earthquake Deformation in Taiwan With ENVI

12/15/2025

Unlocking Critical Insights With ENVI® Tools Taiwan sits at the junction of major tectonic plates and regularly experiences powerful earthquakes. Understanding how the ground moves during these events is essential for disaster preparedness, public safety, and building community resilience. But traditional approaches like field... Read More >
Comparing Amplitude and Coherence Time Series With ICEYE US GTR Data and ENVI SARscape

Comparing Amplitude and Coherence Time Series With ICEYE US GTR Data and ENVI SARscape

12/3/2025

Large commercial SAR satellite constellations have opened a new era for persistent Earth monitoring, giving analysts the ability to move beyond simple two-image comparisons into robust time series analysis. By acquiring SAR data with near-identical geometry every 24 hours, Ground Track Repeat (GTR) missions minimize geometric decorrelation,... Read More >
Empowering D&I Analysts to Maximize the Value of SAR

Empowering D&I Analysts to Maximize the Value of SAR

12/1/2025

Defense and intelligence (D&I) analysts rely on high-resolution imagery with frequent revisit times to effectively monitor operational areas. While optical imagery is valuable, it faces limitations from cloud cover, smoke, and in some cases, infrequent revisit times. These challenges can hinder timely and accurate data collection and... Read More >
Easily Share Workflows With the Analytics Repository

Easily Share Workflows With the Analytics Repository

10/27/2025

With the recent release of ENVI® 6.2 and the Analytics Repository, it’s now easier than ever to create and share image processing workflows across your organization. With that in mind, we wrote this blog to: Introduce the Analytics Repository Describe how you can use ENVI’s interactive workflows to... Read More >
Deploy, Share, Repeat: AI Meets the Analytics Repository

Deploy, Share, Repeat: AI Meets the Analytics Repository

10/13/2025

The upcoming release of ENVI® Deep Learning 4.0 makes it easier than ever to import, deploy, and share AI models, including industry-standard ONNX models, using the integrated Analytics Repository. Whether you're building deep learning models in PyTorch, TensorFlow, or using ENVI’s native model creation tools, ENVI... Read More >
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MIE4NITF: The Newest Standard for Time-Series Enabled NITF Imagery

Jason Wolfe

A greater demand exists within the defense and intelligence community for the ability to view and analyze a time series of images, especially as more UAVs and high-resolution satellites that capture motion imagery become available. Temporal analysis is used in applications such as change detection, tracking patterns and movement, and activity-based intelligence. Having the right software application to process data from the latest motion imagery formats can help to make more informed tactical decisions. ENVI is one of the first commercial software products to support the newest standard, MIE4NITF.

The Motion Imagery Extension for NITF is essentially a container that defines a standard for creating a time series of NITF images. The MIE4NITF standard was developed to combine the rich metadata support in NITF images with time-series information provided by Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) and Full Motion Video (FMV) systems. Modern hardware that collects this type of data will soon exceed the capacity of video standards defined by the Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB). The MIE4NITF standard allows for greater bit depths, frame sizes, and numbers of bands; in addition to support for multiple cameras and data modalities such as thermal and visible imagery.

ENVI 5.5 Service Pack 1 provides a new menu option: File > Open As > Military Formats > MIE4NITF. Selecting any file from a NITF image collection will open and animate the entire collection in the ENVI Series Manager.

MIE4NITF raster series created from CorvusEye® WAMI data, 07 August 2014, Webster, NY, USA.

An important aspect of working with MIE4NITF is the ability to analyze individual frames, or NITF images. The ENVI Series Manager allows an analyst to load specific images within a series to the ENVI Layer Manager for further analysis. Metadata are encoded as NITF Tagged Record Extensions (TREs). Right-clicking on a single image layer displays the NITF metadata for that image.

NITF Metadata Viewer in ENVI, showing metadata for a single image segment within a MIE4NITF series.

By combining greater aerial coverage with detailed metadata, MIE4NITF is expected to become the new standard implemented across defense and intelligence agencies.

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