Description
PhotoModeler is a general purpose photogrammetry tool kit and is used in many application areas such as surveying, construction, public safety, forensics, mining, geology, architecture, etc.
Additional information
| Year of introduction | 1991 |
|---|---|
| Mapping facilities | N |
| Automated blunder detection | Y |
| images simultaneously processed | Y |
| Self calibration | Y |
| Automatic Relative | yes |
| Automatic breakline extraction | N |
| Checking facilities (DEM editing) | Y |
| Automatic contour generation | Y |
| Mosaicing of orthoimages | Y |
| True orthoimage generation | Y |
| Dense DSM creating capability | Y |
| DSM to DTM filtering | Y |
| Automatic seam line creation | N |
| Dense Image Matching | Y |
| Automatic matching | yes |
| Semi-automatic corner point extraction | N |
| Relative | Y |
| Semi-automatic line feature extraction | N |
| Semi-automatic building extraction | N |
| 3D superimposition | Y |
| Integration with scanned maps | N |
| Integration with 2D vector maps | Y |
| Integration with 3D vector maps | Y |
| Integration with point clouds | Y |
| Automatic texturing | Y |
| Length | Y |
| Area | Y |
| Volume | Y |
| Main applications | UAV, UAS mapping, volumes, contours /, close-range photogrammetry /, architecture and engineering applications //accident reconstruction and forensics |
| Distinguishable features | Fully automated workflow, Wide range of capabilities from manual to automatic, Support of high accuracy industrial targeting and automatic feature detection, Othophoto and DEM creation, as well and point clouds and CAD data. |
| Brand | PhotoModeler Technologies |
| Automatic aerotriangulation | Y |
| Automatic interior | Y |
| Year of last update | 2018 |
| Distributed processing capacity | N |
| Modular | Standalone desktop software, Three versions, PhotoModeler Standard, PhotoModeler Scanner, & PhotoModeler UAS, Each a super-set of one before. |
| License configuration | desktop |
| Regional settings available | none |
| System includes hardware | N |
| Operating system(s) | Windows |
| CPU (min.) | 1.5Ghz |
| CPU (preferred) | 2.0Ghz |
| Min. RAM memory [Mb] | 4096 |
| Preferred RAM memory [Mb] | 32768 |
| Min. data storage capacity [Gb] | 1 |
| Preferred data storage capacity [Gb] | 20 |
| Min. graphic card | any |
| Supported special hardware | none |
| 64-bit version of software available | Y |
| GPU based calculations | N |
| Radiometric adjustment for mosaicing | Y |
| Linear array sensors | N |
| Radiometric corrections | N |
| Spatial convolution | N |
| Automatic contrast manipulations | N |
| Radar Images | N |
| UAS Images | Y |
| Optical Satellite Images | N |
| Oblique Images | Y |
| Preferred graphic card | any |
| Digital Aerial Nadir Frames | Y |
| Scanned analogue Aerial Photos | Y |
| Export data formats | Ortho/DEM, JPEG, TIFF, 3D, 3ds, 3D Studio, 3dm, Rhino, Csv, Comma Separated Values, Dxf, 2D & 3D DXF, Fbx, Filmbox, Igs, IGES, Kml, Google Earth, Kmz, Las, ASPRS LAS, Ma, Maya script, Ms, 3D Studio Max script, Obj, Wavefront, Pts, PTS – XYZ scan data, Txt, RAW XYZ coords, Stl, Stereo-lithography, Wrl, VRML 1 & 2, Byu, Brigham Young, Facet, Iv, Inventor, Ply, Polygon, Stereo lithography |
| Input image formats | JPEG, TIFF, BMP, Targa (.tga), PNG, PSD, Jpeg2000 (.jp2/.jpx), MOV, MP4 (mpeg 4), AVI, WMV, 3GP, MPEG |
| Supported image sources | digital cameras, video cameras, drone cameras, scanned film |
| Method of stereo image separation | mono-comparator – no stereo viewing |
| Addres | PhotoModeler Technologies 600 – 1285 West Broadway V6H 3X8 Vancouver Canada |
