RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—October
3, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of
geo-imaging software and systems, today announces the release of Geomatica 2013;
the latest version of the company’s complete and integrated desktop image
processing software featuring tools for remote sensing, digital photogrammetry,
geospatial analysis, map production, mosaicking and more.
“With this year’s release, we have really
added tools that will speed up the processing workflow in many different areas
of the software,” said Peter Hazlett, Product Manager for Geomatica. “It is not
uncommon for projects of hundreds to thousands of images in size that need to
be processed in a single block. New tools have been added and performance has
been improved for compute intensive algorithms, saving you hours in processing
time.”
Geomatica 2013 adds incredible performance
improvements to streamline your workflow like never before. Starting with
Focus, new, wizard based workflows have been added for Atmospheric Correction
that will allow users to automatically detect cloud and haze in imagery – which
will make producing seamless mosaics in cloud plagued areas more intuitive. In
OrthoEngine, users will see incredible improvements in handling large projects,
including Quality Assurance panels that automatically update, Ground Control Point
(and Tie Point) visualization, leading edge automated seamline generation, and
the best algorithms to match images to each other automatically through new
automatic ground control collection algorithms that can achieve registration
accuracies down to 1/10th of a pixel!
Included in the Geomatica 2013 release is a
set of new, redesigned algorithms to automatically extract Digital Elevation
Models from single or up to hundreds of stereo pairs collected by high
resolution sensors. In addition, creating DEMs from multi-source elevation data
(billions of lidar points, contour lines, breaklines) is now possible through
powerful new tools for DEM creation from vector data. All DEM generation
algorithms have been implemented to leverage OpenMP, which means customers will
see big performance improvements (3x to 4x faster than previous).
In addition to the great new and improved
tools, Geomatica 2013 will also offer a unique, new tool to help customers
improve the way they work with their large, complex data holdings. Geomatica
Discover, which will be available in a Geomatica 2013 service pack, is a
standalone, web based data discovery tool, will crawl your local or system
drives to automatically create footprints for geospatial raster and vector
data. The interface allows for map based or advanced text based querying,
allowing customers to quickly and efficiently discover their data holdings to
help organize production work.
Geomatica 2013 is available for 64-bit
versions of Microsoft Windows (Windows XP/Windows 7/Server 2003/Server 2008) starting
today. A Linux version will be available in the coming weeks. For more
information on Geomatica 2013, please visit
www.pcigeomatics.com/geomatica.
About PCI Geomatics
PCI
Geomatics is a world-leading developer of software and systems to process
aerial and satellite imagery. The company provides integrated Esri imagery
workflows, standalone image processing capability, and large volume processing
throughput, giving customers the ability to produce high-quality image products
and derived information for any project. Find out more at www.pcigeomatics.com/geomatica
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Highlights
in Geomatica 2013
Atmopheric Correction
Industry leading Atmospheric Correction Tools, with an all new
wizard interface including workflows for:
- Haze detection
and removal
- Cloud detection
and masking
- Ground
reflectance map generation
- Surface
temperature mapping
Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Extraction
· 3x to 4x better performance (OpenMP enabled)
· Higher accuracy, better results
o New filtering, terrain selection options
o Better handling of large elevation jumps
· Productivity improvements
o New simplified workflow in OrthoEngine
o Automatically work with 100’s to 1,000s of stereo pairs
· Dramatic improvements in generating DEMs from vector data (billions of Lidar points, breakline, contour lines)
Speedy Workflows
OrthoEngine includes key improvements that will improve productivity:
· More control over large projects
· Faster, more efficient QA
· Easier point selection / deletion / editing
· Improved seamline generation methods (fewer vertices per line)
· 2D DEM editing capability in Focus to quickly address quality issues with DEMs
Format/Sensor Support
PCI Geomatics is proud to be consistently first-to-market with new
format and sensor support. In Geomatica
2013, adds support for the following:
New Sensors
Pleiades
UAVSAR
Sentinel-1
Updates to existing Sensors
· Deimos
· ZY3
· CBERS02C
New Formats
Along with new formats, Geomatica 2013 includes multi-sensor
metadata collection capability which has been redesigned, with the emphasis on
simplifying workflows down the road since many parameters are automatically
populated. New data formats include:
- Esri Arc
Geodatabase Vector Support
- Panorama SXF
- Envi
(improvements in handling of format)
- Pyramid file
support for ENVI and Erdas image formats
Data Visualization
- FLY! Has received improvements, including upgrading it to be OpenMP enabled, improving performance up to 4x
- Focus includes improve mulit-layer selection capability, as well as setting and changing the default band combination for multiple images at once
- Ability to generate a Spot blue band (to make natural color composites)
- Profile tool improvements for displaying multiple channels at once
SAR Improvements
PCI has a long and rich tradition of developing tools for SAR Sensors. Geomatica 2013 includes the following improvements:
· Improved performance for SAR algorithms (OpenMP implementation)
· Automatic water body delineation based on new methods developed at CCRS
· Improved user interaction capability for SPW (editable text, 2D, 3D, Static output)
· Intuitive processing (workflow based on available data and parameters)
