Production Software Advances

David Loescher Industry Manager, Software

Customer requirements 

DMCs being used for larger and larger projects

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Reduce project time

– Speed up tasks that are processor intensive  Distributed Processing 

Reduce costs

– – Automate tasks where possible Improve QA/QC processes, less rework 

Provide project management tools

– Reporting  Project status   % completion Graphical and tabular

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Solution roadmap A B C

Application PPS Triangulation DTM Extract DTM QA/QC DTM Edit Rectify Mosaic Ortho QA/QC New tools Page 3

ImageStation Products…

Project Management Orientation & Triangulation Stereo 3D Feature Capture DTM Collection & Edit Orthophoto Production

ImageStation Photogrammetric Manager ImageStation Model Setup ImageStation Digital Mensuration ImageStation Automatic Triangulation ImageStation Satellite Triangulation ImageStation Stereo Display ImageStation Feature Collection-MicroStation ImageStation Stereo for GeoMedia ImageStation DTM Collection ImageStation Automatic Elevations ImageStation Base Rectifier ImageStation OrthoPro ImageStation PixelQue

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ImageStation v5.1 highlights….1

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ImageStation XE

– Integrated interface & photogrammetric “dashboard” 

OrthoPro

– – – – New seam editing tool Improved support of 16bit and 4 band products Butt matched orthos, retile or re-project existing project Apply LUT during rectify and mosaic 

Nvidia graphics cards, improved support for FX4500

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Orientation products, will now install on 64bit OS

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ISFC/ISDC, MicroStation V8 level alphanumeric name support

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ISFC/ISDC External design file for level definition Page 5

ImageStation XE 

Graphical interface for photogrammetry projects

– Graphical display and manipulation of projects  Select sources and launch applications, ease of use  Display data, see your project graphically  Orientation products completely integrated – – Advanced printing and plotting via GeoMedia Publish projects to internet or intranet with GeoMedia Webmap Publisher – Can be used as a free viewer for photogrammetric projects.

– Built using GeoMedia Objects

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Other benefits from ISXE 

Photogrammetry project Data Server

– View, query, print photogrammetry products in GeoMedia – – Publish on the web using GeoMedia Webmap Join photogrammetry projects to other data sources/databases  Production tracking – Export to KML  Visualise in Google Earth

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OrthoPro  – – – –

Included functions:

– – – Project definition Rectification Seamlines  Manual  Automatic  Editing Mosaicing Dodging True Orthophoto Auto-Ortho Production 

GeoMedia based Page 8

OrthoPro Enhancements 

Improved seams editing

– – Red/Blue Image display tool for drawing seams User can see where the overlapping images match and edit lines to pass through these areas – Enhanced performance for modifying seams – – Up to 20% productivity gain for seam editing Reduces rework due to poor seam placement

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OrthoPro Enhancements continued   

Improved support of 16bit and 4 band products

– – Dodge Improved tone balance

Butt matched orthos, retile or re-project existing project Apply LUT during rectify and mosaic Page 10

ImageStation PixelQue 

Provides a solution to QA/QC images, orthophotos, or mosaics

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Product will be released in May 07

– – – Revue orthos, find problem areas and marks for later rework, queued edit Image touchup tools Image histogram enhancement tools 

4 band, 8 or 12bit images

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An extension “add-on” for either GeoMedia or GeoMedia Pro

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Fast, preserves geotiff headers and overviews

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Demo on Thursday Page 11

ImageStation PixelQue Commands   

Inspect Image Place Problem Marker Review Problem Areas

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Local Warp Pixel Clone Raster Splice Raster Fill Raster Undo

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Histogram tools Page 12

PixelQue, Select Image

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PixelQue, Mark Problem Areas

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PixelQue, Review and Fix Problems

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ImageStation PixelQue 

Pixel Clone

– User selects source  Brush shape  Size  Feathering  Opacity – Copies to target

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ImageStation PixelQue 

Raster Fill

– Fill user selected area.

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Raster Splice

– Copy and paste user selected area – From one image to another 

Local Warp

– an interactive tool to correct small local distortions in orthophotos, such as tops of buildings incorrectly positioned due to perspective distortion or bridges that are sheared due to not being modeled in the DTM used to create the orthophoto.

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PixelQue, Image Enhancements 

Histogram:

– – Collect Display 

Enhance Contrast By:

– – – – Linear Percent Linear Clip Equalize Gamma 

Match Images

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LUT:

– Load, Create, Apply, Reset, Save

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Thank you Noch Fragen ?

David Loescher

Industry Manager, Software SG & I - Earth Imaging Solution Center P +44 1794 367199 M +44 7977 256799 [email protected]

www.intergraph.com

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