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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