Features

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

• Windows based multi-document user interface
• An all-in-one package with easy-to-use interface
• Well balanced, operative and intuitive software
• Support of multi-lingual graphical user interface
• Familiar and configurable GUI
• Setting preferences

Image Import

• Importing more than 70 generic/GIS/RS image formats
• Importing KML and KMZ formats coverages
• Image type auto detection while importing
• Direct access to any raster data formats without conversion
• Opening images immediately regardless of their size
• Opening several images at once without memory overflow
• Support for generic RAW binary format with manual definition
• List of recently imported files

Image Export

• Image exporting to many generic/GIS/RS image formats
• Exporting images into KML and KMZ formats
• Support for export to COTS GIS and RS packages, including ESRI, ENVI, ERDAS, PCI, ERMAPPER, etc
• Exporting compressed data formats (e.g. JPEG2000, ECW)
• Support for spatial and spectral subset while exporting images
• Exporting images with custom histogram stretching
• Generating Quick Look and Meta Data files

Image Printing

• Standard tools to prepare and print images
• Adjusting printer and page parameters
• Header and Footer editing
• Print preview

Image Manager

• User-friendly file manipulation tool for intuitive browsing and product selection
• Attribute-based and list-form review of images from disc
• View image location on the world map
• Customize reference map and projection
• Display selected images and image selection on a map
• Open images directly from list or map
• Easy image selection/deletion from disc

Image Analysis

• Metadata review
• Measurement tools in real-time cursor movement
• Planar geographic and cartographic coordinates real-time display
• Real-time display of pixel brightness values
• Real-time sun azimuth and elevation calculation for any pixel
• Generation and display of arbitrary pixel profile lines
• Display in form of a table and channel-by-channel pixel profile line analysis
• Creation of scattergrams and their 3D visualization
• Automatic image segmentation function
• Selected fragment parameters display
• Measuring distances on images

Image Vizualization

• Real-time display of up to 4 GB images with radiometric resolution up to 16 bit
• RGB color composite view
• Grayscale channel-by-channel view
• Pseudo color view and color table editing
• Easy image zooming and scrolling
• Zoom In/Out/ToWidth/ToHeight/Actual/Rectangle
• Supporting Undo (Previous Zoom command)
• Handy Zoom Bar for easy zoom level adjustment
• Effective Pan mode (free image scroll by mouse drag)
• Flexible Navigate tool (scroll/zoom window)
• Automatic vertical scrolling

Image Enhancement

• Contrast/Brightness enhancement
• Quick Enhance (Easy Contrast)
• Graphical histogram contrast adjustment tool
• Linear and nonlinear contrast enhancement
• Min-max linear contrast stretch
• Percentage linear contrast stretch
• Histogram equalization
• On-the-fly algorithms of image processing
• Spatial enhancement (e.g. noise filtering)
• Satellite instrument processing
• Generation of value added products.
• Resolution Merge (Image Fusion) with Brovey, HLS and Arithmetic Transformation methods.
• Merging Radar with VIS/IR Imagery
• Satellite based specific radiometric correction

Operations with vector layers

• Fast multiple-vector layers overlay on image
• Extra speed while overlaying ESRI DCW data
• Support for popular vector formats, including ArcInfo Coverage, ESRI Shapefile, MapInfo MIF/MID, MapInfo TAB, Microstation DGN
• Multiple-vector overlaying
• On-the-fly map re-projection
• Creating and editing vector layers
• Points, lines and polygons support
• Drawing and editing vector maps using RS data as a background
• Enabling\disabling vector layers display
• Customizing size and color of vector objects
• Point-and-click map objects and their attributes selection

Geographic Location

• Automatic geographic and cartographic location of RS and GIS images while opening
• Support for geo-reference file formats (e.g. ESRI World File, MapInfo Tab File, WKT)
• Universal Orbit/Sensor Model for easy geo-reference of remote sensing images from any generic format
• Manual geo-reference for any raster data
• Satellite trajectory data import from NORAD TLE files
• Easy geo-reference adjustment to new satellite attitude
• Ground Control Points (GCP) rectification
• Unique algorithm of automatic search for ground control points for images based on vector layers
• Graphical selection of GCPs with automatic coordinate conversion
• GCP editor with import and export capability

Geometric correction

• On-the-fly technology using while geometric correction
• Image transformation into user-defined map projection
• Over 70 map projections, 40 ellipsoids and 200 datums
• Over 2000 prepared EPSG coordinate systems
• User-defined projections, coordinate systems, ellipsoids and datums.
• ROI selection
• Image-to-map and image-to-image rectification
• On-the-fly image re-projection
• Affine and Polynomial (up to 5th order) transformation
• Image resampling to coordinate system: Nearest Neighbor, Bilinear, Cubic Convolution
• User-defined pixel size and geographic subset
• Up to 255 channels for output cartographic product
• GCP selection from image, vector map and user input
• Any spatial and spectral image mosaicking
• Image mosaicking with manual color balancing

Universal tools of RS data cataloging

• Processing of large volumes of RS data of different types and presentation formats
• Automatic metadata, quicklooks and geolocation data retrieval
• Creation and editing of customized catalogs(databases)
• User-friendly search by attributes and catalog data picturesque presentation
• Saving dumps (metadata, quicklook, geolocation) for selected catalog records
• Access to catalogs in LAN
• Catalogs import\export to exchange databases

Integrated tools of access to map 2D and 3D Internet-services

• Support of Microsoft Virtual Earth, Google Maps, Google Earth, Yahoo Maps and other map services
• Unified access interface for all services
• Interactive toggling between map resources and types of displayed data
• Use of global Earth mosaics coverage as basic maps
• Opening multi-terabyte mosaics in Windows application windows with the possibility to zoom and to navigate
• Simultaneous operations with several windows of different services
• Quick translation to the area with specified geographic coordinates
• Mirror movement of view area in the other window when working with RS data
• Viewing geographic coordinates of objects along with the cursor movement and picking up GCPs
• Google KML images rendering and review on Google Earth global coverage
• Overlaying remote sensing data on the DEM of map service for 3D visualization

Additional data processing tools

• Raster formats converter for data batch processing
• Vector files converter for data batch processing
• Batch reprojection of map coordinates
• Vector files and GPS data receivers converters (support of Magellan, OziExplorer, ShapeFile, KML formats, etc.)
• Hex editor
• Value converter (changing representation formats or units of measurement)