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EOfactory scales up to provide geospatial users nearly limitless image processing capabilities using CATALYST Microservices Platform. Results: A nation-wide orthorectification of 10,000 images that now takes three days will be finished in five minutes with CATALYST […]
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Overview Uplift and subsidence are ground displacements that can put dangerous strain on critical infrastructure, such as pipelines, buildings, dams, and roadways. To facilitate affordable, repetitive monitoring of millimeter-level ground movement, we have unveiled a new […]
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The Kennaugh–Huynen scattering matrix condiagonalization is projected into the Pauli basis to derive a new scattering vector model for the representation of coherent target scattering. This model permits a polarization basis invariant representation of coherent target […]
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The data in this mosaic covers a wide range of sea states and wind speeds which accounts for the variation of the backscattering from the water. The final output mosaic contains five layers which represent total […]
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The ability to identify and measure significant changes in target scattering and/or polarimetric parameters at known and co-located image locations provides a very powerful tool for large-area military and/or environmental monitoring applications. This paper describes the […]
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Wetlands play a key role in regional and global environments and are critically linked to major issues such as climate change, water quality, the hydrological and carbon cycles, and wildlife habitat and biodiversity. Their existence is […]
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What is our country’s estimated crop yield this year? How much food will we need to import? Will we have enough water for our nation’s needs? How can we expect our cities to expand? What new […]
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The need for airphoto processing in resource, security, planning and other applications is continually increasing. How can these demands be met? Large scale projects require fast, efficient processing of thousands of images every year, providing critical […]
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An Empirical Line Model (ELM) was tested to correct Sentinel-2A (MSI) images acquired in the tropical archipelago of San Andrés, Colombia. This approach uses a linear regression to model the relationship between the average ground reflectance […]
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Geometric Correction of historical imagery is a complicated, time consuming and expensive operation. Due to a lack of development related to streamlining these operations, a significant amount of manual processing time must be invested into current […]
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After demonstrating the exceptional performance improvement in the orthorectification module (approximately fourteen-fold – see CATALYST Enterprise Ortho Performance Whitepaper), the same approach has been applied to the pansharp module by taking advantage of newly developed code, […]
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CATALYST has developed new, high-speed, orthorectification functions. The code takes advantage of modern, multi-core processor architecture, as well as NVIDIA’s Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), to process standard data products from the WorldView-1, QuickBird and IKONOS satellites […]
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New computational environments are emerging – cloud computing which promises to provide vast computational resources on demand. Many corporations are moving to such environments to better share resources between compute-intensive applications, to provide for surges in […]
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PCI Geomatics has overcome the challenges caused by the traditional raster image management methods with its enterprise solution: the Geomatica Image Management System (GIMS). With 25 years of experience in building image-centric geospatial solutions, PCI Geomatics […]
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Every day, earth imaging satellites deliver large volumes of critical information about our natural resources, our cities, our transportation, our climate, and more. In a way that traditional maps cannot, these images provide detail and context […]
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CATALYST has a full set of object-based image analysis (OBIA) tools that can be used to quickly and accurately extract impermeable land area on a per parcel basis. Imagery is segmented based on the shape and […]
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Traditional methods for generating geo-information products from large quantities of remote sensing images are too often limited by production inefficiencies and long to-market cycles. PCI Geomatics’ enterprise solution to these challenges is a customizable, cost-effective GeoCapacity […]
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This article describes how high-resolution satellite data can be used to extract accurate digital elevation model (DEM) for a mining application in the Amazon region. The resulting vertical accuracy can be within RMS error of 1.5m […]
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This report details the performance of the new DEM extraction application for the CATALYST Enterprise system. The main logic of the application is based on the code in “genautodem.cpp”, which contains thecore functionality of the DEM […]
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