nFrames GmbH SURE Aerial

Description

SURE Aerial transforms massive amounts of imagery into highly detailed 2.5D/3D models, point clouds, textured meshes and seamless true orthophotos in a streamlined process.

Mesh formats (e.g. OBJ/Cesium/Collada) for guaranteed compatibility. Modularity, stop & continue, external point cloud support e.g. LiDAR and polygon region definitions (AOI/water) offer full flexibility.

SURE Software perfectly scales with data volume and available hardware through elastic distributed processing. Rental licenses can be added anytime during ongoing processing.

SURE technology is also available for integrators.

Produce precise large scale point clouds, elevation data, true orthophotos and more. SURE Aerial includes all of the SURE Pro features with unlimited scalability for large datasets. Conduct processing on normal hardware no matter whether high-resolution large frame, medium format oblique or UAV imagery.

Fully automatic workflow

Generate Tiled DSMs, True Orthophotos and Meshes completely automatically. No manual seam line editing or expert knowledge required to produce quality outputs.

Region of interest definition

Process only what is important for your project without all the extras. Take control of your time and efficiency per project.

Unlimited Scalability

Whether 2,000 or 20,000 high resolution images, SURE Aerial scales with you and your project needs.

Cost efficient image acquisition and processing

Choose image acquisition that fits best for you. Acquire Oblique images or even get high quality from from Nadir flights. Experience highly efficient processing built for handling large datasets on your existing hardware.

Colorized DSMs

Generate colorized DSMs to represent accurate height differentiation data.

Specifications

General

Year of introduction

2013
Year of last update

2018
Modular

SURE Aerial - SURE Aerial Mesh Add-on - SURE Pro - SURE Editor
Regional settings available

English language, support of all units
License configuration

14 day trial version after free download, perpetual or rental options, 1 instance per computer

Required Computer System

System includes hardware

N
Operating system(s)

Windows, Linux
CPU (min.)

64 Bit processor
CPU (preferred)

Intel i7 or Xeon
Min. RAM memory [Mb]

16000
Preferred RAM memory [Mb]

64000
64-bit version of software available

Y
Distributed processing capacity

Y
GPU based calculations

Y
Min. data storage capacity [Gb]

1
Preferred data storage capacity [Gb]

4000
Min. graphic card

Any
Preferred graphic card

Nvidia with CUDA support and 11GB memory
Supported special hardware

Nvidia graphics cards. Runs on almost every common hardware and operating system.
User definable operations and extensions

24 Threads per license (1 graphics card) scalable through distributed processing cluster

Viewing System

Min. display memory [Mb]

512
Pref. display memory [Mb]

6000
Resolution

Any
Method of stereo image separation

Stereo image matching is performed using a hierarchical variation of the Semi Global Matching (SGM) approach called tSGM. Stereo visualization is only avaliable for inspection of generated meshes.

Images and data

Supported image sources

Airborne large and medium frame, close range, UAS, mobile mapping. Support of Nadir and Oblique imagery. Orientation information can be imported from Trimble Inpho-Match-AT, Trimble UASMaster or Trimble Business Center Photogrammetry, Pix4D Mapper, Agisoft Photoscan, Visual SFM, Bundler and more.
Input image formats

TIF (8 & 16 Bit, up to four channels, also tiled and pyramids), PNG (8 & 16 Bit), JPG (8 Bit)
Export data formats

True-Orthos: TIF, GeoTIF (multichannel, 8-16bit) - Pointclouds/DSM: LAS, LAZ, PLY, TXT - Meshes: OBJ, Cesium, Collada
Scanned analogue Aerial Photos

Y
Digital Aerial Nadir Frames

Y
Oblique Images

Y
Linear array sensors

N
Optical Satellite Images

N
UAS Images

Y
Radar Images

N

Image manipulation & processing

Automatic contrast manipulations

Y
Spatial convolution

N
Resampling

Y
Radiometric corrections

Y
Radiometric adjustment for mosaicing

Y

Orientation and triangulation

Automatic interior

N
Relative

N
Automatic aerotriangulation

N
Automated blunder detection

N
Self calibration

N
images simultaneously processed

Y
Automatic Relative

import of 3rd party exterior orientation formats and camera definitions including various distortion models

DEMs & Orthoimages

Automatic matching

Semi-Global-Matching variation (tSGM). By efficiently matching on automatically selected stereo models and subsequently merging and refining the result in the point cloud generation, low noise point clouds with quality information can be retrieved. Hierarchical approaches speed up the process and enable the support of depth large variations in the scene.
Automatic breakline extraction

N
Checking facilities (DEM editing)

Y
Automatic contour generation

N
Mosaicing of orthoimages

Y
True orthoimage generation

Y
Dense DSM creating capability

Y
DSM to DTM filtering

N
Automatic seam line creation

Y
Dense Image Matching

Y

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

Y
Integration with point clouds

Y
Automatic texturing

Y

Measurement tools

Length

Y
Area

Y
Volume

N

More information

Main applications

City Modeling, Smart Cities, Area Mapping, Landcover Mapping, Cadastre, Environmental Research, Agriculture, Forestry, Construction, Mining, Infrastructure and Inventory, Energy, Powerline Mapping, Pipeline Mapping, Inspection, Risk Assessment, Forensics, Navigation, Classificaton, Change Detection, Volume computations
Distinguishable features

Support for LiDAR/Nadir imagery/Oblique imagery, generate true orthos with highest quality and sharpest edges, generate fotorealistic color-balanced 3D-meshes and 2.5D-meshes, preserve details but expect low noise in pointclouds / dsm / meshes (suited for e.g. pole detection), be compatible through flexible input-/output formats, export into streaming (level-of-detail aware) formats (e.g. Cesium tiles, Collada...), perfectly scale production capacity to any project sizes and available hardware and budget, use a dynamic number of computers and licenses even during on-going processing for distributed processing with autonomous cluster management / automatic tiling, pre-deliver finished sub-areas before complete project finishes (homogeneous borders are guaranteed), rely on predefined parameters through application scenarios and automatic best model selection, effectively stream data from disc for visualization and mesh editing, leverage high redundancy / reliability, customize processing with onestop / multiste