RapidStation

PIEneering Ltd

Helsinki, FI

Description

Feature Extraction and Mapping: Mapping facilities

N

Semi-automatic corner point extraction

N

Semi-automatic line feature extraction

N

Semi-automatic building extraction

N

3D superimposition

N

Required Computer System: System includes hardware

N

Operating system(s)

Windows Vista, 7 & 8

CPU (min.)

2 Ghz

CPU (preferred)

fast multicore

Min. RAM memory [Mb]

4096

Preferred RAM memory [Mb]

8192

Min. data storage capacity [Gb]

1000

Preferred data storage capacity [Gb]

4000

Min. graphic card

Open GL

Supported special hardware

N

User definable operations and extensions

N

64-bit version of software available

Y

Distributed processing capacity

Y

GPU based calculations

Y

Hardware handling of big data sets

NVIDIA w/ CUDA 2.0 or higher

Images and data: Source data

RPAS/UAS & large format imaging systems. Thermal, multi & hyperspectral sensors. Multiple RPAS/UAS log file formats. 3rd party photogrammetric project files.

Input image formats

RAW, JPG, TIFF, ERS

Export data formats

RAW, JPG, TIFF, ERS, ideal images; DSM point files : ASCII, PLY, LAS

DEMs & Orthoimages: Automatic matching

Area based & feature based

Automatic breakline extraction

N

Checking facilities (DEM editing)

N

Automatic contour generation

N

Mosaicing of orthoimages

Y

True orthoimage generation

Y

Dense DSM creating capability

Y

DSM to DTM filtering

Y

Automatic seam line creation

N

Viewing System: Method of stereo image separation

With any 3rd party photogrammetric stereo workstation

General: Year of introduction

2012

Year of last update

2013

Modular

RapidStation & RapidTerrain + any 3rd party stereo workstation

License configuration

by sensor size or project size

Regional settings available

N

Orientation and triangulation: Automatic interior

N

Relative

N

Automatic aerotriangulation

Y

Automated blunder detection

Y

Self calibration

Y

Image manipulation & processing: Spatial convolution

Y

Resampling

nearest neighbor, bilinear, bicubic

Radiometric corrections

Y

Radiometric adjustment for mosaicing

Y

More information: Main applications

High end surveying & mapping, corridor mapping

Distinguishable features

1) modern, GIS like GUI & powerful data analysis tools 2) rigorous photogrammetric math modeling 3) superior, fully automatic image matching 4) comprehensive quality assurance & graphic reporting 5) GPU & batch processing support 6) camera self-calibration with multiple cameras / block 7) metric camera, multispectral and hyperspectral image processing