GIS Tools

The GIS Import tool and the Export GIS Shapefile tool enable you to easily exchange data between industry GIS software packages and STK.

GIS Tool

The GIS Import tool significantly broadens the analytical capabilities of STK. For example, the GIS Import tool can be used to select the optimal facility site based on population densities or to design a custom sensor foorprint that satisfies an unlimited number of complex demographic, environmental and other geographically referenced properties. As an analytical tool, it can be used to determine the coverage quality of a given sensor swath or the demographics of a ground network by referencing the STK objects created against any one of the detailed GIS information databases.

The GIS Tool enables you to

• Import GIS industry standard shapefiles into an STK scenario for analysis.
• Export facilities, targets, area targets and even coverage regions into GIS applications.
• Export a shapefile for a sensor swath or footprint.