SURE Editor | Empowering Photogrammetry | Software

A powerful tool that provides an interactive environment for improving the quality of your DSMs, True Orthos, and DSM Meshes.

THE EASE OF AN INTERACTIVE, COLLABORATIVE EDITOR Interact with the DSM mesh to create polygons that correct artifacts and data gaps. Multiple users on multiple devices: collaborate simultaneously to edit the same project from multiple machines.

nFrames GmbH

Stuttgart, DE

Description

Photogrammetry solutions can be prone to artifacts or data gaps common in dark, shaded areas and glass structures. Shortcomings include:

stereo occlusions
poor radiometry
lack of texture

Utilizing the DSM Mesh, the SURE Editor enables you to improve scenes that include these problem areas:

interpolate points in data gaps
straighten and sharpen edges of buildings
flatten surfaces that experience frequency noise

The interactive SURE Editor provides the ability to:

easily create and customize how and where your DSM gets edited
save time with targeted processing
produce higher quality in your TrueOrthos and DSM Meshe

Specifications

Feature Extraction and Mapping: Mapping facilities

N

Semi-automatic corner point extraction

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

N

Integration with 3D vector maps

N

Integration with point clouds

Y

Automatic texturing

Y

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

Nvidia with CUDA support

Hardware handling of big data sets

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

1 Thread per license (1 graphic card)

Images and data: Source data

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

enables editing of SURE projects (2.5D workflow)

Export data formats

True-Orthos: TIF, GeoTIF (multichannel, 8-16bit) - Pointclouds/DSM: LAS, LAZ, PLY, TXT - Meshes: OBJ/DAE, OSGB/IVE, Cesium, SLPK, 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

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

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 (anaglyph) is only avaliable for inspection of generated meshes.

General: Year of introduction

2017

Year of last update

2020

Modular

SURE Aerial - SURE Aerial Mesh Add-on - 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

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

Measurement tools: Length

Y

Area

Y

Volume

N

Image manipulation & processing: Automatic contrast manipulations

Y

Spatial convolution

N

Resampling

Y

Radiometric corrections

Y

Radiometric adjustment for mosaicing

Y

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