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July 2001
PCI
Geomatics Presents
The latest information, the
earliest previews, and opportunities to share your views!
PCI Geomatics Currently
Preparing
Space Imaging is now releasing new imagery products derived from the IKONOS sensor called Geo 1m Ortho Kit and Geo 4m Ortho Kit. These new products include the Image Geometry Model (IGM), which contains the complete and accurate sensor geometry at the time of the image collection. PCI Geomatics is currently working on an update for Geomatica OrthoEngine Version 8.0 software that will allow users to read and process the Ortho Kit data for both imagery products. The new software will be available within the existing PCI Geomatics IKONOS Models package. It will be available via FTP download for any customer with Geomatica 8.0 and an IKONOS Models license. Geomatica OrthoEngine currently supports
various forms of Space Imaging data from the IKONOS sensor. These include:
1) GEO Product: The lowest priced IKONOS data product can be orthorectified and mosaicked using a generalized high resolution sensor model. The accuracy of GEO products is approximately 50 meters, but it can be corrected up to around 3 to 4 meters with good ground control points. This is currently supported within the IKONOS Models package.
The OrthoEngine IKONOS Ortho Kit update
is scheduled to be available in July 2001. Visit the PCI Geomatics web
site (www.pcigeomatics.com) for
more information on this and all other announcements. Contact your PCI
Geomatics sales representative today and ask about what PCI Geomatics can
do to provide your organization with the best geospatial solutions available.
Help PCI Geomatics to
Reduce
The latest addition to the growing list of new features being developed for PCI Geomatics software is a new functionality that will help Geomatica customers reduce the cost of using Landsat 7 data. By purchasing and independently processing raw Landsat 7 Level 0R imagery, users can save approximately US$125 per scene in imagery costs, representing a significant cost reduction while producing excellent image correction results (http://landsat7.usgs.gov/). For projects that require the use of a large number of Landsat 7 images, the savings in production costs will be realized immediately. PCI Geomatics functions under development
have already been proven to read raw Level 0R imagery in the distributed
HDF-EOS format. Full radiometric corrections and Level 1 geometric corrections
are then applied. All data required for the corrections are extracted from
the HDF files, but an external Calibration Parameter File (CPF) may also
be used. The high quality output data (Level 1G) are produced in a simple
HDF-EOS format, using a standard map projection or, alternatively, using
the satellite track projection. The latter is used for further processing
in PCI Geomatics? photogrammetry software, OrthoEngine. PCI gratefully
acknowledges the assistance of the CCRS in porting the software to the
Microsoft Windows platform.
Visit our web site at www.pcigeomatics.com/news/Landsat70R.html for more information. Visit www.pcigeomatics.com regularly to find out about updates on this and other developments at PCI Geomatics.
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