Using the Bing Maps Silverlight Control for Nuclear Non-Proliferation

We have a satellite imagery group that is responsible for analyzing imagery of nuclear sites.   They were looking for ways to allow their data to be used by others who are not spatial imagery experts.   The data included raster data(Satellite imagery), vector data (Shapefiles), and photos and documents.  They were interested in using publicly available imagery data(e.g. Google earth, Bing Maps)  and integrated all this into a single application.

I did a prototype using Microsoft Silverlight and the Bing Maps Silverlight Control.   The requirements for this prototype were:

• Quickly navigate to nuclear sites
• Show pictures and documents for that nuclear site
• Overlay our internal satellite data and vector data for the site 
• Integrate a spatial search capability

The prototype was done in 3 weeks.  I had already done projects with Windows Presentation Foundation so learning Silverlight was straightforward.  The difficulty in using Silverlight is knowing what was missing.  

Six usability tests(nuclear inspector persona) were done and that feedback plus the feedback from the satellite imagery group was used to update the design. 

I had to remove the satellite imagery layers due to license restrictions, but you can view the demo without those layers.

Click here to view the demo… 

Or you can view 6 screen shots below

Navigate to a nuclear site  Choose a country.  Map zooms to country.  Choose a site.  Map zooms to site and the site icon and the layer panel appear for that site.

	Nuclear Site Details Click on a nuclear site icon and general information about that site appears.
	Integrated Photo Viewer Click on photos and they are displayed in the photo viewer..
	Satellite image layer Black and white satellite image of the IAEA headquarters is overlaid on top of Bing Earth data
	Satellite image layers 2 satellite images overlaid on top of each other.  A color satellite image over a black and white satellite image over Bing Earth data
	Integrated Spatial Search Integration with Bing Earth search web service.  If search term is found map zooms to that location