The GeoTime Team is happy to announce a new release of GeoTime, developed in collaboration with law enforcement users from around the globe. For this latest release, we have focused on a number of highly requested features from our law enforcement users. Building off of the advanced cell site analysis workflows we developed in our v5.4 release, GeoTime 5.5 introduces many new capabilities to enhance the import, visualization and presentation of both historical and real time cell site data. We have also added new presentation export options, for directly creating  high quality reports from GeoTime. And to round off the release, GeoTime 5.5 now has new mapping options, including integration with Esri’s ArcGIS Online platform, as well an Offline Map Pack Add-on for network restricted environments.

Real Time Import of Location Ping Emails
GeoTime can now connect directly to an email account (Gmail, Exchange, etc.) and import emails that contain location information in real time. Imported locations from these emails will appear in GeoTime’s 3D map viewer. Users are then able to observe both a live and historical view of an entity’s location and movements. This data can also be exported as a CSV for further analysis and archiving.

Automatic import of ping location emails directly into GeoTime

Enhanced CDR Formats Support
Newly introduced carrier CDR record formats combine tower description and call activities on a single row. GeoTime can now import these formats in a single pass, which cuts down the time needed to import CDR formats such as AT&T’s   v2 format down to under 5 minutes.
PowerPoint Export
Produce high quality Powerpoint reports from within GeoTime. All content captured within a user’s Reports Tab is added to the report including text, snapshots, charts and network views.

Direct export to PowerPoint for reporting and presentation.

New Mapping Options
Locate any GeoTime event within their browser on an ArcGIS.com online map, as well as the new Offline Map Pack Add-on for users that do no have network access.

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You can also check out our latest “GeoTime Technology Preview” video which provides an overview of GeoTime 5.5’s new email import feature. We will be contacting all GeoTime users of the availability of GeoTime 5.5 in May for instructions on how to upgrade to the latest version. For new users that are interested in testing out the new capabilities of GeoTime 5.5, simply send us an email at info@geotime.com.

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The Los Angeles Regional Criminal Information Clearinghouse (LA CLEAR) has implemented an innovative approach to addressing these challenges. Using a solution based on ArcGIS from Esri Partner Oculus Info Inc. (Toronto, Canada), the agency has rapidly streamlined the mapmaking process for tracking cell activity. It has overcome the time and dimension problem as well—sophisticated 3D maps can show movement and activity over time, whether it’s throughout the course of a day, a week, or an entire month.

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You can also see a presentation by Toni Nunez, on some of her case work using GeoTime. 

In November's issue of Law and Order Magazine, journalist Karen McDonough, covers the trail of Rodrick Fountain, a father accused of killing his son.  In the article, “Jurors see evidence with 3-D Visualization Software”, she outlines how the joint law enforcement taskforce center in Houston used GeoTime in order to visualize the suspects movements patterns and present evidence during the trial via video recording. Check out the full article below.

 

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 GeoTime is proud to announce the launch of GeoTime 5.4, GeoTime for Law Enforcement. The GeoTime Team has been closely working with several of our existing law enforcement clients in order to identify how visualization can best improve their ability to identify suspect movement patterns.  In the latest release of GeoTime, analysts now have access to advanced cellsite analysis tools, including a cell-tower key importer and the ability to map call detail records to a cell tower key. Analysts can save time by building a carrier specific tower mapping and resuse it for every individual cell record for that provider. Furthermore, GeoTime allows you to work with multiple carriers through improved merging features.  For more information on GeoTime 5.4 please check out the following resources:

GeoTime 5.4 Video Series

GeoTime What's New in 5.4 (including information on ArcGIS 10.1 support) 

 

 GeoTime was happy to attend the ISS World Americas Conference this year in Bethesda, MD.  At the show we presented a law enforcement oriented presentation on “Reconstructing Suspect Movement through Data Fusion” and held our conference iPod draw.

GeoTime is glad to announce that Meagan from New Brunswick, Canada is the winner of the ISS World America’s GeoTime iPod Draw.  Thanks to all who entered the draw this year.  If you’re interested in entering future iPod draws, here’s a list of conferences and events  we plan to attend in the future. 

 

 At the 2012 ESRI International User Conference, LA Clear analyst Toni Nunez presented a case in which GeoTime is used to analyze call detail records. Without a cooperating witness she works across multiple suspects and multiple carrier records in order to place a criminal at the vicinity of a gang related crime.  

Nunez is a seasoned analyst who has worked over 300 cases which required call detail record analysis. As the demand for this type of analysis increases, she notes in the video, it is important that a tool like GeoTime  provides analysts with the ability to quickly isolate and view suspect calls at specific points in time. Current methods of generating 2D static charts for use in court not only take a lot of time to produce, but fail to reveal the whole picture. GeoTime’s 2D view allows analysts to isolate and animate views requested by stakeholders such as the district Attorney’s office.

What also makes GeoTime unique for Nunez is its 3D view which allows analysts to animate movement patterns overtime.  In the case she discusses in the video below, the animation clearly shows that the suspect moves towards the scene of the crime, based on his call records, when he said he was in another part of town at work.  By merging multiple phone records, Nunez is able to place multiple suspects at the scene of the crime. 


 

This past week at the International Chief of Police Conference in San Diego, the latest issue of Police Chief Magazine hit the shelves with an article on "How 3D Visualization Software Helps Law Enforcement Analyze Data". The story takes a look at how the Ogden Police Department used 3D visualization technology (GeoTime!) to help with a variety of tasks including cell site analysis, AVL review and GPS data analysis. You can read the full article here. 

 With so many videos, demos, webinars and the likes, we decided that it was time to put some order to the growing pile of digital content we have been creating. The first step of this process is to create a media library as a single place to find all of the content the GeoTime team creates. From there, we will start to add relevant sections to allow for easy navigation.  You can check out the GeoTime Media Library here. 

 At the 2012 Esri Fun Run/Walk the GeoTime Team asked participants to log and submit gps data from their run/walk.  We're glad to see such a widespread interest and thank those who took the time to submit their data to us. Submissions have been aggregated and visualized in GeoTime.  To check out results, view the video included in this blog post!  

Over the past year we have been working with the analyst group at the Ogden Police Department's Real Time Crime Center (RTCC), in support of some of their new analytical capbilities. This was a collaboration with multiple partners, including ESRI and Cybertech, who came toeghether around the project. The result of this effort has surpassed our most ambitious goals and the team excited to release a case study to document some of the successes that the RTCC has had. 

The GeoTime Team wishes to thank all the folks at the Ogden Police Department who we have had the pleasure of working with. You guys (and gals!) are great. Keep doing the great work you do. 




Download the full case study here.