New features include:

• Enhanced GIS Functionality – Powerful analytical and modeling tools provide a comprehensive means of integrating GIS data into any workflow.

  Features include:

  • Full raster and vector integration
  • On-screen digitizing with full topology
  • Improved vector editing
  • Intuitive and easy-to-use wizards
  • Topological and multi-layer analysis
  • Advanced querying and modeling
  • Suitability mapping
  • Facilitate decision making with statistics and reports

• Advanced Hyperspectral Processing – New capabilities provide end-users with the ability to better analyze and view their hyperspectral data and make it easier for them to integrate it with other geospatial data.

  Features include:

  • Process and analyze imagery with up to 1024 bands
  • New image metadata support
  • Geometric correction
  • Noise removal
  • Simple atmospheric correction
  • Endmember selection
  • Spectral Angle Mapper image classification
  • Spectral unmixing
  • Scatter and Spectra plotting
  • Spectral mixing
  • Visualization operations
  • Support for spectra libraries
  • Vector Quantization image compression

• New Pan Sharpening – Enhance the visual information found in multispectral imagery by fusing it with the detailed spatial information found in panchromatic imagery.

  Features include:

  • Easy-to-use single step process
  • Utilize existing QuickBird, IKONOS, SPOT, IRS or Landsat 7 imagery
  • Made for the new generation of high-resolution satellites, but supports all sensors
  • Algorithm developed by Dr. Yun Zhang, University of New Brunswick

• Improved Atmospheric Correction – Radiometrically correct satellite images utilizing the latest ATCOR technology.

  Features include:

  • ATCOR2 – spatially-adaptive fast atmospheric correction for flat terrain
  • ATCOR3 – created to work with rugged terrain, utilizing a Digital Elevation Model

• New Generic Database (GDB) Technology – Support for the latest file formats.

  Features include:

  • ESRI GeoDatabase
  • ESRI Binary Grid
  • JPEG 2000

• New OrthoEngine Technology

• Enhanced Viewer – offers enhanced zoom capabilities, panning, brightness, contrast, cursor control, and mapping color channels.
• Enhanced Satellite Model Block Adjustment – work with blocks of satellite data using less GCPs.
• Improved DEM Extraction Tools – generate and merge geocoded DEMs in one-step. New Batch Epipolar
• Generation – create epipolar images for multiple stereopairs in batch mode.
• Automation – utilize Batch Epipolar with Batch DEM Extraction for complete end-to-end processing in a single-step.
• Multiple File Selection – selecting multiple images to orthorectify or geometrically correct streamlines the process.
• Improved Automatic Mosaicking – improved color balancing reduces the need to refine results.