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13th International Scientific and Technical Conference
From Imagery to Map: Digital Photogrammetric Technologies
20 Years of Racurs.
History of Success.
Victor Adrov, Racurs, Russia
September 2013, Fontainebleau, France
RACURS & PHOTOMOD
Racurs company's business mission is to provide the world-wide geospatial
community with advanced and cost-effective digital photogrammetry solutions and
services for creation of wide range of output products from the available remote
sensing data.
1993 – Racurs Company foundation
1994 − selling of the first commercial license of DPS PHOTOMOD
2000 – creation of the Production Department
2004 – first distribution of space remote sensing data
2009 – new PHOTOMOD 5.* platform
Scope of activity:
Development of DPS PHOTOMOD and its promotion on the worldwide market
Promotion of supplementary Geoinformatics software products
Satellite imagery distribution
Production of photogrammetric service
RACURS milestones: 1993-1996. Trademarks.
1993. Racurs company foundation
1995. ISPRS workshop in Russia. First public
mentioning of PHOTOMOD name
RACURS milestones: 1993-1996. First partners and clients
1993. Participation in the 1st Forum on Exchange of Technologies between East and West, France.
Partnership with Continental HighTech Services (France).
1995. 1st PHOTOMOD license was sold in Russia to SurgutNIPINeft
1996. 1st Dealership Agreement for PHOTOMOD was signed with company PROGIS (Austria)
“...during PHOTOMOD practical applications we gained an insight into its great potential for
both amateurish and professional use and clear advantages over other known PC-oriented
products in respect of possible operations with DTM and the degree of automatization of main
photogrammetric procedures.” (PROGIS Seminar, February 1996, Austria)
RACURS milestones: 1993-1996. PHOTOMOD structure
1996. PHOTOMOD, version 1.5
PHOTOMOD - main module for interior/relative/absolute orientation of stereopair, reference
data input, 3D measurements;
PHOTOMOD DTM - automatic DTM generation and edition, orthorectification, contour lines;
PHOTOMOD VectOr - creation, edition and export of vector lines;
PHOTOMOD StereoDraw - creation, edition and export of vector lines in stereo mode.
PHOTOMOD ScanCorrect - additional module for compensation of geometric inaccuracy of
flatbed scanners
PHOTOMOD main module
PHOTOMOD
VectOr module
PHOTOMOD DTM module
PHOTOMOD StereoDraw module
Terrestrial
imagery
processing
History of PHOTOMOD development
1993 Company RACURS foundation.
1994 First commercial version. Single pair orientation, stereo display, correlation based image matching.
1995 Official registration of PHOTOMOD software. PHOTOMOD DTM: TIN, DEM, contours and orthophoto
generation, PHOTOMOD VectOr: monoplotting over orthophoto.
1996 PHOTOMOD StereoDraw: On-screen 3D stereo plotting. First international distributors.
1997 PHOTOMOD trade mark registration. PHOTOMOD ScanCorrect: Desktop scanners calibration.
PHOTOMOD system is certified by State Land Use Committee of Russian Federation.
1998 On-line 3D features coding. RACURS Co. becomes a sustaining member of ISPRS.
1999 Versions 2.*. PHOTOMOD AT: aerial triangulation and block adjustment. New PHOTOMOD VectOr module.
2000 Further development: graphic interface for adjustment results analysis, compressed images processing, etc. New
web site www.racurs.ru.
2001 Version 3.0. Distributed network projects, pushbroom scanner images processing, etc.
2002 Version 3.11. Automatic interior orientation, new PHOTOMOD Mosaic module.
2003 Version 3.5. Network ideology, development of block processing approach.
2004 Version 3.6. Editing tie points in many windows. QuickBird, EROS, SPOT 5 support etc.
2005 Version 3.8. PHOTOMOD GeoMosaic for external images processing.
2006 Versions 4.0-4.2. Fully automated tie points measurements. Stereoblocks and monoblocks.
2007 Version 4.3 Bundle adjustment. Support of Kompsat 2 and ADS 40. Fast TIN creation algorithm. New pansharpening algorithms. Satellite images in GeoMosaic.
2008 Version 4.4 Field Survey module. GPS support. 3D objects while exporting to AutoCAD. Satellite images in
PHOTOMOD StereoLink.
2009 Version 5.0. New level of automation and productivity.
2010-2012 Versions 5.*. “Dense” DTM, GPGPU technology support, distributed processing, 3D-Mod module, VisionMap
A3 project processing, Canopus-B, Pleiades, etc modern satellite imagery processing.
2013 PHOTOMOD Conveyor, new methods of 3D models creation, more automation.
Hands-off processes in PHOTOMOD software
Block layout
Phototriangulation
DTM extraction
and filtering
Orthomosaic seam lines
and color balancing
Processing of satellite imagery in PHOTOMOD
2010 -… Full support of new satellites sensors – 1 month before/after launching
2009
2004
2001
PHOTOMOD supports
PHOTOMOD doesn’t support
PHOTOMOD. Any data, any sensor
PHOTOMOD in the world
PHOTOMOD users – 600+ companies in the world, 300+ - in Russia
Workplaces – 6000+
PHOTOMOD is used in 70 countries
PHOTOMOD distributors
Geodis BRNO
/ Chech Rep.
Acuvec
/ Canada
Geosatelites
/ Nicaragua
Geomatica
Ingenieria
/ Colombia
Geokoncept
/ Ecuador
GPS Agrimensora
/ Brazil
GISINFO
/ Ukraine
InfoMap d.o.o.
/ Serbia & BIH
SIGMAGEO
/ Portugal/
Spain
Galantis
/ USA
GeoInfo Services
/Malaysia
Parnas
/ Latvia
CiS GmbH
/ Germany
SmartSpatio
Technologies
/China
MapWorld
Technologies
/ India
EUROBIT
/ Italy
Yanniris Yannis
/ Greece
GIS-Sofia Ltd.
/Bulgaria
Paksoy Teknik
/ Turkey
Simon Kaplo
Engineering
/ Syria
Nama Pardaz
Rayaneh / Iran
Navayuga
Middle East
/ U.A.E.
Media Data
Communication
/ Indonesia
Workvision
Scientek Corp. /
Taiwan
Chan Chau Co.
/ Vietnam
Hayson Geospatial
/ Australia
PHOTOMOD development. Automated dense 3D models
www.racurs.ru
PHOTOMOD development. 3D modelling
PHOTOMOD Conveyor. Distributed processing
Joint product: RACURS and СТТ Group (Russia)
Preconditions for the development of highly- efficient conveyor system for orthomosaics creation:
Choice of the most required final product of photogrammetric processing of the remote space data
Creation of a technology focusing on one final product (orthomosaics) and giving up the universality
Experience in application of complete automation of basic photogrammetric operations
Experience in realization of the efficient distributed processing focused on the computational clusters
Development of hardware and software
Offer to the customers of the optimized total solution that includes software and special hardware
Productivity of the system on specialized hybrid computational cluster: close to 1000 000
sq km orthmosaics of highly-quality per 24 hours based on SVHR satellite sensors data
Input data:
Output data:
 Satellite images with RPC
coefficients
 DTMs
 Seamless orthomosaic
 Orthophoto sheets
Complete automation of the operations
Photogrammetric works in Racurs company
Photogrammetric service for clients was launched in 2000.
Production department has completed tens commercial photogrammetric projects by orders of Russian and
foreign companies.
This experience is taken into account in PHOTOMOD software development.
Example of one project done in Racurs.
BD Topo Project (France).Topographic database creation (2005-2006)
Camera Focal length =153.972 mm
Scanning resolution - 28 microns
Classifier - 133 codes
Required accuracy of 3D feature extraction: 1 m
Made in RACURS: 25 blocks of aerial images, total area ~ 25000 km2
Racurs conferences. History
Sites of holding:
2001. Irkutsk, Russia
2002. St. Petersburg, Russia
2003. Golitcino, Russia
2004. Minsk, Belarus
2005. Jurmala, Latvia
2006. Becici, Montenegro
2007. Nessebar, Bulgaria
2008. Porec, Croatia
2009. Attica, Greece
2010. Gaeta, Italy
2011. Tossa de Mar, Spain
2012. Algarve, Portugal
2013. Fontainebleau, France
Worldwide training
Racurs on exhibitions
Thank you for your attention !