New Open source under Apache-2.0

Professional imagery exploitation.
Free. In your browser.

GIS Workbench brings photogrammetry, stereo, SAR, spectral, LiDAR and full-motion video analysis to a single HTML file. No installer, no licence server, no data leaving your machine — and 91% of SOCET GXP capabilities covered.

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Runs in Chrome or Edge 120+ · Works offline · Windows, macOS, Linux

GIS Workbench workspace showing an SRTM elevation model rendered with colour relief, with the data view, map view and layer manager docked alongside.
SRTM elevation data, U.S. Government public domain.
Licence cost
$0
Install
None
Analyst commands
448
SOCET GXP coverage
91%
Requirements tested
344
Free, forever

Enterprise-grade capability without the enterprise price tag.

Commercial exploitation suites are licensed per seat, tiered into bundles, extended by paid add-ons and kept current through annual maintenance. GIS Workbench is none of those things.

  • No seats, bundles or add-on modules to buy — every capability is included
  • No licence server, dongle or activation to manage
  • No annual maintenance contract to keep receiving updates
  • Open source under Apache-2.0: inspect, audit, extend and redistribute

GIS Workbench

$0

Every feature. Every user. Every update.

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Any OS with a modern browser
Fully offline & air-gap friendly
One 5.7 MB HTML file
Your data never leaves the device
Capabilities

One workbench for every intelligence discipline.

From NITF to LiDAR to motion imagery — 448 commands across twelve capability areas.

Image exploitation

A GPU image chain and multi-panel workspace built for analysts who live in imagery.

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Geopositioning & mensuration

Rigorous coordinates and measurements, each with an honest error estimate.

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Sensor models & photogrammetry

Sensor-model–aware exploitation from single images to block adjustment.

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Stereo & 3D

Stereo exploitation and 3D scenes without special hardware.

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Terrain

Extract, edit and analyse elevation data directly in the browser.

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SAR

Complex SAR exploitation from SICD and SIDD data.

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Multispectral & hyperspectral

Spectral analysis on the GPU, from band math to target detection.

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LiDAR & point clouds

Millions of points, streamed and rendered at interactive frame rates.

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Motion imagery & GMTI

Full-motion video with MISB metadata, synced to the map.

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Feature extraction & GIS

Capture, attribute and validate features with assisted digitising.

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Products & reporting

Finished intelligence products straight from the workspace.

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Private by design

Your imagery never leaves your machine.

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Feature parity

How close is free? Closer than you think.

We compared GIS Workbench against 75 documented SOCET GXP capabilities. 49 are fully covered, 19 partially, and we list the 7 gaps openly.

91% covered

68 of 75 SOCET GXP capabilities

49 Full19 Partial7 Not supported
See the full comparison
CapabilitySOCET GXPGIS Workbench
Image chain: DRA, stretches, LUTs, filtersYesFull
Multi-sensor triangulation (block adjustment)YesFull
Automatic DSM / DEM extractionYesFull
Amplitude change, coherent change detection, pair finder, sub-aperturesYesFull
MISB KLV video with map footprintYesFull
Vendor rigorous optical satellite modelsYesPartial
Licence costCommercial$0
In action

A familiar workspace, rebuilt for the web.

Analysts trained on desktop exploitation tools will feel at home from the first click.

A one-million-point LiDAR point cloud shown in 3D, coloured by elevation, with buildings and trees.
LiDAR in 3DSynthetic point cloud from the GIS Workbench test fixtures.
AVIRIS hyperspectral imagery of agricultural fields displayed as a false-colour composite.
Hyperspectral analysisAVIRIS Indian Pines, CC0 1.0.
Full-motion video playback with a MISB KLV heads-up display showing sensor position, frame centre in MGRS and footprint on the map.
Motion imagery with KLVSynthetic MISB ST 0601 test video.
Private & secure by design

Built for sensitive imagery.

GIS Workbench runs entirely on your machine. There is no server to send data to.

Local-only

Files are read straight from disk with range reads. Nothing is uploaded or copied.

Locked-down network

A strict Content Security Policy blocks every origin you haven't added, and every request is logged.

Memory-safe parsers

NITF, LAS, KLV and other parsers are written in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly and fuzz-tested.

Air-gap ready

Copy one file onto an isolated network and it just works. Optional packs add geoids and AI models.

Get going in a minute

Three steps. No IT ticket.

  1. 1

    Open

    Launch the hosted app, or download the single HTML file for offline use.

  2. 2

    Load

    Drag in NITF, GeoTIFF, SICD, LAS, DTED, video and more. Data stays on your disk.

  3. 3

    Exploit

    Measure, extract, analyse and publish products to PDF, PowerPoint, Word or KMZ.

Try it now — it's free.

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