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LiDAR Enhancements Offer Faster Processing and Display Global Mapper from Blue Marble Geographics offers newly enhanced light detection and ranging (LiDAR) features that include a significant improvement in the ability to load and classify massive amounts of LiDAR point cloud data, jumping from supporting files that contain tens of millions of points to those that contain hundreds of millions of points. Global Mapper 14.1 provides a dramatic increase in LiDAR processing and display speed, which is beneficial for previewing data before creating a gridded surface or terrain model. Version 14.1 includes several options for filtering data during import and rendering point clouds to reflect return type or intensity. Improved metadata access provides a detailed statistical breakdown of the point cloud and customizable point size improves on-screen display. Global Mapper Package files are now able to store LiDAR point clouds in a special compressed format, much smaller than uncompressed LAS data and on par with the best compression formats available
Terrain Modeler Aids Point Cloud Analysis Applied Imagery has released Quick Terrain Modeler Version 8.0, which makes working with LiDAR point clouds, digital elevation models and color imagery easier, faster, and more powerful. QT Modeler v8.0 offers a complete reworking of point cloud profile analysis and editing tools, interactive 3-D cross section tools, and an expansion of coordinate conversion capabilities, including vertical datum transformations. For Department of Defense users, QT Modeler v8.0 offers a comprehensive suite of travel route analysis tools that enhance understanding of situational awareness and mobility along planned routes—all in an interactive 3-D environment. In addition, exporting routes and imagery to handheld GPS can now be done with a few simple clicks, thus dramatically compressing the timeline for critical mission-planning tasks. Duane Snyder; dsnyder@appliedimagery.com
today. This promotes efficiency in LiDAR data archiving and sharing between other Global Mapper software users. Danielle Caron; daniellec@bluemarblegeo.com
Location Analyzer Incorporates GIS to Understand Data Esri Location Analytics enables organizations to maximize data and applications by revealing the where in their corporate data. It extends the value of traditional enterprise applications by incorporating GIS to help users visualize, question, analyze, interpret and understand data. It consists of a scalable platform that works in the cloud, on mobile devices, and within existing IT systems. The result is access to better information for organizations at every level that unearths relationships, patterns, and
trends that would otherwise remain locked away. Esri Location Analytics enables organizations to visualize the relationship between corporate data, such as profits and inventory, and location-specific data, such as customer and facility addresses. It takes advantage of core capabilities to extract new, powerful insights. The core capabilities include mapping visualization, powerful analytics and geographic information enrichment. Jesse Theodore; jesse_theodore@esri.com
Remote Sensing Software Supports New Imaging Satellite
Combined Solution Enables Leveraging Large Datasets
PCI Geomatics, a developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, has announced that it now supports SPOT-6 imagery within its software suite. SPOT-6, a new satellite built and operated by Astrium was launched in September 2012. SPOT-6 is an optical imaging satellite capable of imaging the Earth with a resolution of 1.5 m panchromatic and 6 m multispectral (blue, green, red, near-IR). The support for SPOT-6 will be available in the Geomatica 2013 SP2 product release. PCI’s support for SPOT-6 will include RPC model creation (allowing for very accurate corrections using the satellite orbital ephemeris data) as well as very rapid and high-quality pansharpening capability. Kevin R. Jones; jones@pcigeomatics.com
Pixia and EMC Isilon have partnered to offer a combined big-data access and storage solution that allows defense and intelligence organizations to leverage big and large datasets, especially ISR data captured by sensors for motion imagery, satellite imagery, terrain, radar feeds and aerial surveillance. Pixia HiPER Stare catalogs, organizes and shares large volumes of ISR sensor data by providing increased storage I/O from the EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS solution. The solution offers enormous scalability to a daily mission set—up to 20PBs within a single volume—and powerful web data-as-a-service interfaces for interoperability to any toolset. It represents a fast turnkey solution to the demanding workflow requirements of sophisticated ISR environments. Kenneth Melero; melerok@pixia.com Megan Lane; megan.lane@emc.com
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