Trends in Digital Photogrammetric Workstations Andrey Sechin Scientific Director, Racurs

Trends in Digital Photogrammetric Workstations

Andrey SechinScientific Director, Racurs

September 2013, Fontainebleau, France

What Drives DPW Development?What Drives DPW Development?

New sensors – aerial cameras, lidars, satellites, gps-

imu, …

Computer technology

New Algorithms

Network technologies

User experience and wishes

New sensorsNew sensors

Satellite imagery: Higher productivity, large blocks

Aerial survey: high overlap, big color depth (>8 bits per channel), special oblique cameras, lidars

Computer technologiesComputer technologies

64-bit computing Multicore CPU

multithreading Clusters

CUDA, MIC,…

Operating system Operating system – Windows 7 Home Premium 64

ProcessorProcessor - 3rd Generation Intel (R) Core (TM) i5-3330 quad-core processor [3.0GHz, 6MB Shared Cache]

MemoryMemory – 6GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM [2 DIMMs]

New algorithmsNew algorithms

Computer Vision –> algorithms

Pattern recognition –> automation

3D

Do we need 3D point clouds?

Automatic 3D points conversion to vector objects: roofs, roads, …

3D geoportals,

3D GIS

…

3D3D

Network technologiesNetwork technologies

GEO Database/GEO PortalDPW

User experienceUser experience

ConclusionsConclusions

Oblique cameras and images

64-bit software architecture

Cluster computing

Multithreading & multiprocessing

Automation: Point clouds -> vector

objects

DPW & GEO Database/Portal

integration

Client-Server networking

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