PHOTOMOD.Future outlook

Aleksey ElizarovHead of Software Development Department, Racurs

October 2014, Hainan, China

14th International Scientific and Technical Conference

From Imagery to Map: Digital Photogrammetric Technologies

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PHOTOMOD HistoryVersion 1.3 Single stereopair processing(1994) Central projection images

Version 2.0 Tens, hundreds of images(1999) Block aerotriangulation

Version 3.0 Hundreds of images(2001) Pushbroom satellite images processing

Semiautomatic interior orientation

Version 3.5 Distributed network storage system(2003)

Version 4.0 Thousands of images(2006) Fully automatic tie points measurements

Version 5.0 Tens thousands of images(2009) Any number of color channels in images

Support of GPGPU computing3D modeling

Conveyor S One-button solution for orthophoto creation(2012) for satellite imagery on supercomputers

Version 6.0 Special solution for UAS processing(2014) Dense DSM creation

Full x64 architecture support

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Current Photogrammetry Trends

Larger image overlap, more multiimage Oblique imagery UAS Growing data volumes Higher precision of on-board georeferencing 3D modeling

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Current Hardware Trends

No significant advances in processor clock rate~ 3 GHz

More parallelized architecturesCPU (Intel Xeon Phi)GPU (NVIDIA Tesla)Computing clusters

Hundreds of computing threads

Higher data storage volumes≥6 TB per disk

Higher data storage speed≥100 MB/sec per disk (HDD)≥500 MB/sec per disk, zero access time (SSD)

Higher network transfer rates

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Current Software Services Trends

Remote software access

Clouds solutions

Software as a Service

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PHOTOMOD: Keeping Step with Technologies

Support of all coming satellite data UAS data support Support of all existing georeferencing data Support of high performance hardware architectures

Extending parallel computing on CPUExtending parallel computing on GPGPUExtending parallel computing on computer clusters

Integration with web GIS servicesUsing web GIS services as sources of imageryUsing web GIS services as sources of georeference dataPlacing output products on the web

New licensing and software access schemes

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PHOTOMOD: Automated Georeferencing

Implemented Usage of on-board georeferencing

In progress Automatic GCPs recognition

Detect points with known (X, Y, Z) coordinateson source images by using existing orthophotos

Future plans Automatic referencing to any data:

orthophotos + height datavector mapsgeoreferenced (adjusted) imagery

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PHOTOMOD: One-Button Solutions

Implemented

In progress

Conveyor S-DTM: one-button solutionfor DTM and DSM creation for satellitepushbroom imagery

Conveyor A: one-button solutionfor orthophoto creation for aerial imagery

Future plans One-button solution for all output

products for any input data

Conveyor S: one-button solutionfor orthophoto creation for satellitepushbroom imagery

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PHOTOMOD: Automatic vectorization

Implemented Vectorization patterns

In progress Automatic 3D vectorization toolsUser selects a pattern and a search area

Future plans Automatic 3D vectorization Automatic 3D classification

User selects only object classes to recognize

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PHOTOMOD: Realistic 3D Models

Implemented

In progress Automatic texturing by any georeferenced

imageUsage of orthophotos, obliqueand close-range imagery

Future plans One-button solution for 3D model

creation

Automatic DSM creation Automatic model creation from 3D vectors Automatic texturing by orthophoto

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PHOTOMOD: Localization

Implemented

In progress Greek

Future plans

English Russian Spanish Chinese

More languages…

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PHOTOMOD: Further Development

Special processing of oblique imagery

Adopting computer vision algorithmsImage matching3D model creationObject extractionClassification

New error assessment tools

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PHOTOMOD: Development Goals

ExactReliableFlexibleAutomaticFastUser friendly

The PHOTOMOD system tends to be:

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Thank you for attention!