SkylineGlobe Capabilities

Usability and Productivity

Data Fusion: Combine aerial and satellite photography, terrain elevation data, standard photos, and feature data in a wide range of formats and projections, and of unlimited size to create a photo-realistic 3D environment. Data is compressed to minimize disk storage and network bandwidth.

Flexible Deployment Options: Use SkylineGlobe software in the way that best suits you:

Integrate a 3D environment into web applications or into desktop applications.

Work in a networked or disconnected (off-line) mode.

Make content available to the public or restrict access to secure networks and authorized users.

Mobile Application: Skyline’s Android App features touch screen navigation, a mobile-optimized user interface, and basic tools/capabilities, so you can navigate freely through local and remote terrain databases and 3DML city layers, fly to favorite locations, search SkylineGlobe address server and locate the camera according to your GPS position. Entire projects or subsets of projects can easily be published for use on android devices.

Realistic Visualization

Wide Range of Geospatial Data: Build rich 3D visualizations by creating, importing, manipulating and editing a wide range of geospatial data, including GIS feature layers, raster layers, 2D and 3D objects, dynamic objects, and point cloud models.

Subterranean Exploration: Add objects, explore and query the subsurface layers of your terrain.

GPS Sensor Feed: Integrate live GPS sensor feed from multiple sources for 3D visualization of real-time situational awareness.

Video on Terrain: Integrate live or recorded video feed directly into the 3D environment. Telemetry data (either file-based or KLV digitally encoded), which holds positioning information for the camera, allows the video to be projected over the same geographical area that is captured in the video.

Indoor Navigation: View and freely navigate the interior of 3D structures, such as buildings and tunnels.

Advanced Drawing Tools: Create simple and/or customized objects including Mil-Std-2525b symbols, and urban designs.

3D Modeling

Accelerated Loading and Streaming of 3D Models: Easily merge 3D mesh layers and/or layers with individually referenced 3D models into a stream-optimized and fully textured urban model (3DML) that can be viewed and queried by TerraExplorer clients.

Simplified Creation of 3D Models: Using an entirely automated conversion process, generate high resolution and photo textured 3D mesh models from a set of standard 2D photographs.

3D Model Processing: The XPL urban model algorithm provides seamless transition between different Levels of Detail (LOD) as the viewer position is changed, enabling you to quickly load highly-detailed urban models with hundreds of thousands of buildings. This SkylineGlobe technology uses multi-resolution geometries and multi-resolution textures to accelerate loading speed and reduce memory consumption.

Analysis

Measurement Tools: SkylineGlobe software provides you with tools for measuring distances, coordinates and areas in the 3D world.

Terrain Analysis Tools: Our advanced terrain analysis tools include Line of Sight, Viewshed, 3D VIewshed, Shadow Query, slope and Contour Maps, and Flood and Volume tools.

Advanced Spatial and Attribute Queries: Fine-tune feature information that is displayed on the terrain or create a new project layer or file based on the filtered layer using the Attribute Table tool. Perform spatial queries based on a selected or drawn geometry to search for features within a given area or based on their relation to other features. The selected features can then be merged into a single feature, clipped one from another, or exported to a new file.

Customization

Customized Solutions: Using SkylineGlobe’s comprehensive API, you can freely design and develop 3D geospatial applications based on SkylineGlobe technology and data.

Robust API enables power users to easily customize 3D content, layers, tools, and functions

Powerful COM based API designed for Windows developers

Easy to use JavaScript classes optimized for web developers

A set of SkylineGlobe ActiveX controls for your customers to embed in their applications

Full API documentation and developer community provides better support

Localization: Adapt your application for foreign users and customers by easily translating all menus and dialog boxes into any required language. Enhanced Ribbon Customization: Advanced ribbon customization options allow integration of custom tools into the application ribbon. Developers can add, delete and reorder ribbon entries, as well as add a range of tool types ranging from floating tools to tools with no user interface and auto-start tools, to create a user interface tailored to their specific requirements.

Interoperability

Open Standards: SkylineGlobe software supports several Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web standards: Web Map Service (WMS), Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Feature Service Transactional (WFS-T), and Web Catalog Service (CSW). These services enable you to directly load raster, elevation and feature layers from enterprise or Internet OGC sources, and share all your map image and feature data with any application that reads these standard OGC protocols.

Accessing Enterprise Data: Skyline directly supports a long list of file formats and server protocols (i.e. Shape, KML/KMZ, Oracle, WFS/WMS, ArcSDE, PostgreSQL, SQL Server 2008 and many more).

Multiple Coordinate Systems: Both client and server support fusion of data in different coordinate systems, with reprojection on-the-fly.

Collaboration

Collaboration: SkylineGlobe software supports real-time collaboration sessions, in which users can fly-through and study a 3D environment together, and make additions or changes to the 3D environment that will be seen by their partners.

Catalog Database: Efficiently stores, organizes and manages connections with spatial databases, layers and projects. Catalog provides a common repository with a powerful search function that promotes data collaboration between projects.

Presentations: Share dynamic 3D visualizations with others by recording your navigation through the 3D World, determining in each presentation step the precise view in the 3D Window - what layers, objects, and messages are displayed, what tools are opened, and the current date and time. Routes can be created in the way you find most efficient and intuitive using any of the flexible available options, including flying through the terrain recording an exact route, adding sequential location waypoints, and following a dynamic object. An easy to use editor enables you to set step timings and transitions and modify step sequence

System Performance

Optimized Cache Databases: SkylineGlobe restructures the 3D data into optimized cache databases, providing fast loading and efficient data streaming to multiple users.

Dynamic Updates: SkylineGlobe enables you to dynamically and instantly update imagery and elevation data, without rebuilding the entire database.

Streaming from Native Sources: SkylineGlobe servers allow you to skip the terrain and feature database creation and stream data in its native form directly from your enterprise data sets. Advanced mechanisms leverage cache technology for performance and scalability optimizations.

Powerful Servers: SkylineGlobe’s client-server model has been optimized to handle thousands of concurrent users accessing virtually unlimited sized databases.

Scalability: SkylineGlobe technology is infinitely scalable, allowing multiple servers even in different locations to simultaneously stream vast 3D databases. In multi-processor environments, the load is automatically shared between processors.

Distributed Data Management: SkylineGlobe technology fuses data on-the-fly from multiple remote servers chained together within one or more organizations.

Federated Network: SkylineGlobe’s distributed data concept enables a cluster of geographically distributed TerraGate servers (nodes) to share each other’s geospatial data, fusing it into a comprehensive consolidated dataset for all users. This allows enterprise level management and scalability, while also providing high-level availability, and bandwidth optimization.

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