Release Notes

Version 2222.0.4

With CATALYST Professional, customers using standalone dongles cannot run Python scripts that use the CATALYST Professional libraries outside of the software (i.e. Command Line, IDLE, IDEs). Python scripts can be run in the Focus Python Scripting window.

• Sensor | Jilin-1 KF01A: Support has been added for the Jilin-1 Earthscanner data, which includes 4-bands of multispectral data at 3m and 1 band of panchromatic data at 0.75m.
• Sensor | Jilin-1 GF02A/02B: Support has been added for the Jilin-1 Stereo data, which includes 4-bands of multispectral data at 3m and 1 band of panchromatic data at 0.75m.
• Sensor | Jilin-1 GP01/02: Support has been added for the Jilin-1 Hyperscan data, specifically the multispectral data (PMS) which includes 7-bands of visible/near infrared data at 5m, 6 bands of data at 10m, and 7 bands of data at 20m.

Updated

• Persistant Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) Workflow:  PSI is an Interferometric SAR technique which utilizes temporally stable points to measure surface displacements covering a very wide area with millimetric accuracy. This release includes updates to existing functions and updates to the workflow scripts and tutorial.
  • Function | INSPSN: Tilt correction was verified and average filter was added to the process after unwrapping. A regularization parameter (REGUFACT) was added as well in order to generate better results with noisy datasets.
    
  • Function | INSDMV: Addition of regularization (REGUFACT parameter) to the function in order to handle noisy data better.
• Capability | SAR Data: For ground range detected(GRD) SAR data, change published data to be intensity data instead of amplitude data.
  Documentation | SCALE function: Updated help with information about proper usage of the NO_DATA_VALUE metadata tag within the function.
• Function | SARTOPOCAL: Many changes have been made to the function including:
  • Modified to generate a correction factor based upon illuminated area rather than using a backscattering model.
  • Addition of shadow and layover calculations.
  • Generation of proper RPC model segment in output.
• Sensor | Kompsat-3A: Updated newer Kompsat-3A datasets with proper radiometric gain and offset values.

Fixes

• Capability | OrthoEngine, Convert DEM Datum: Fixed to ensure process completes as expected.
• Capability | Focus, Filter Tool: Fixed issues reported when running using image files with less than three layers.
• Capability | Focus, Hyperspectral Plot: Fixed issues reported that panel was crashing if opened with no data loaded in the Focus map window.
• Capability | Focus: Fixed GUI issues reported with improper display of options for Data Type when using the Import ASCII Points functionality.
• Capability | Focus, Reprojection: Fixed issues reported that channel order was scrambled in file after reprojection.
• Capability | OrthoEngine, Import GCPs: Fixed defect which crashed OrthoEngine if the imported GCP file was not UTF-8 encoded.
• Capability | Vector Conversion: Fixed problem reported of data being truncated when converting from GeoJSON format to SHP.
• Function | LINK: Fixed reported issue where the function intermittently crashed when using SPOT-6 data.
• Performance | GEOCODEDEM: Fixed to ensure process completes as expected.
• Sensor | Kompsat-3A: Fixed identification issues with Kompsat-3A data which was being displayed as Kompsat-3.
• Sensor | Kompsat-3/3A: Fixed georeferencing issue with Level-1R datasets, which showed a misalignment between the MS and PAN data.
• Sensor | MAXAR 15cm HD: Fixed performance issues with ingest/processing of 15cm MAXAR datasets.
• Sensor | ADS: Fixed ingest problem with projection when trying to ingest ADS level 2 imagery.

Version 2222.0.3

With CATALYST Professional, customers using standalone dongles cannot run Python scripts that use the CATALYST Professional libraries outside of the software (i.e. Command Line, IDLE, IDEs). Python scripts can be run in the Focus Python Scripting window.

• Function | RAS2PTATT: Converts multiple raster channels to a vector file with an attribute table. It was specifically designed for the InSAR workflows in that it can read the stack of displacements for each acquisition time step, and export a vector layer of points.

Updated

• Persistant Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) Workflow:  PSI is an Interferometric SAR technique which utilizes temporally stable points to measure surface displacements covering a very wide area with millimetric accuracy. This second release of the workflow includes updates to existing functions and new functions to help achieve best-of-breed results.
  • Function | INSPSN: Restructured to eliminate duplicate computations based on input layers, improving the overall performance of the function.
  • Function | INSPSC: Addition of average backscatter and dispersion ratio to output from function.
• Data Support | OpenStreetMap: CATALYST Professional now includes support for vector data from OpenStreetMap that is delivered as a GeoJSON file.
  
• Data Support | GeoJSON: Updated GeoJSON to handle polygon and multi-polygon with multiple internal and external holes.

Fixes

• Capability | OrthoEngine, Convert DEM Datum: Fixed to ensure process completes as expected.
  
• Capability | HAP: Fixed issues when running HAP Coarse Alignment process on large strip line TIFF files.
  
• Projection | Australian Datum 2020: Repaired issues with shifting data when using GDA 2020.
  
• Capability | Focus, InSAR Temporal Chart: Fixed issues reported when displaying the results from the INSSTACKPSI function.
  
• Capability | Focus, Object Analyst: Fixed problems reported when extracting Polarimetric SAR attribute.
  
• Function | SARINGESTAOI: Fixed reported issue where the function crashed when the vector segment specified did not exist.
  
• Function | GREY2RGB: Fixed output LUT naming issues and also added functionality to copy the math model segment to the output dataset.

Version 2222.0.2

Highlights

With CATALYST Professional, customers using standalone dongles cannot run Python scripts that use the CATALYST Professional libraries outside of the software (i.e. Command Line, IDLE, IDEs). Python scripts can be run in the Focus Python Scripting window.

• Function | COMPOSITE: This new capability provides pixel-based compositing of deep stacks of imagery to create cloud free composites. COMPOSITE merges a set of overlapping geocoded images into a mosaic using a number of pixel-by-pixel compositing techniques.
• Function | INSSTACKPSI: This new function is designed for the PSI workflow, to read a stack of temporally non-overlapping displacement imagery and write the displacement, cumulative displacement or velocities for each acquisition time step in a user specified distance and time units.
• Function | INSDMV: INSDMV converts the displacement values generated from a stack of co-registered interferograms into temporally ordered and non-overlapping, line of sight (LOS) displacements in meters after removing the estimated atmospheric effects from the overlapping interferograms. The estimated topographic error is given in the last layer.

Updated

• Persistant Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) Workflow:  PSI is an Interferometric SAR technique which utilizes temporally stable points to measure surface displacements covering a very wide area with millimetric accuracy. This second release of the workflow includes updates to existing functions and new functions to help achieve best-of-breed results.

• Function | MOSRUN: Added more information to the output report with respect to the empty tiles that were deleted and added spacing in the output log to better distinguish the various parts of the log.
• Function | SUPERMATCH: Improvements were made in the matching to better handle large rapidly changing disparities.
• Capability | Mosaic Tool: Numerous improvements to Mosaic Tool to address customer issues including: crash fix when changing global mask style, better MFILE support, new cutline method (ERODEEXT) to address voids, other fixes to address voids, fixed channel mapping issues, and improved performance with very large and rotated files.
• Function | INSDECOMP / INSDMV: Functions have been updated to fill temporal gaps in a time series which caused the processes to fail.
• Function | GREY2RGB: Function will now output metadata values to store the calculated INMIN and INMAX values.
• Function | INSPSC / INSPSN: Automatic calibration point added to these functions to properly skip the calibration process if no external calibration points are available.
• Workflows | INS* functions: All INS* functions have been modified to ensure that they are consistent in terms of:
  – Output quantity
  – Units
  – Unit of filter size
• Function | INSRAW: Function has been improved to properly carry-out phase fitting across swath using a two-pass method.
• Utility | PCIDSK Format (PIX): Vector segments greater than 4 GB in size are now supported natively in PCIDSK format files. As well, performance improvements have been made to work with large datasets.
• Utility | License Manager: The CATALYST Professional license management tool has been redesigned, including the addition of automatic license generation.
• Utility | License Server: The RMS license server installer has been rebranded and updated and is now the CATALYST License Server.

Fixes

• Function | SPECLASS: Fixed to work properly and use all appropriate bands for the ASTER sensor.
• Function | SPECLASS: Fixed to work properly and use all appropriate bands for the 16-band variety of Worldview-3 data.
• Sensor | SPOT 6/7: Fixed issues with SPOT 6/7 ORT products which were loading with an improper shift in Focus.
• Sensor | Gaofen-7 (GF7): Fixed the values of spatial resolution which were being set incorrectly for Gaofen-7 products.
• Sensor | ICEYE: Fixed issue with display of raw ICEYE data which was being displayed opposite to the properly ingested data.
• Focus | ICEYE: Fixed defect that caused Focus to shutdown when trying to view the Incidence Angle array data for raw ICEYE imagery.
• Focus | WMTS Support: Fixed problems that were reported when trying to load certain web mapping tile services to the Focus interface.
• Function | OEBUNDLEOPT: Fixed function, which was failing when trying to set options for a project created for RCM data.

Version 2222.0.1

Highlights

With CATALYST Professional, customers using standalone dongles cannot run Python scripts that use the CATALYST Professional libraries outside of the software (i.e. Command Line, IDLE, IDEs). Python scripts can be run in the Focus Python Scripting window.

• Sensor | Gaofen-7 (GF7): Earth-observation satellite in the Gaofen series of Chinese civilian remote-sensing satellites.  The data includes 2.5m resolution multi-spectal and 0.8m stereo panchromatic data.
  
• Sensor | Khalifasat: Support added for RADIO and GEO products for this optical sensor which features 3m multi-spectral and 0.7m panchromatic data.
• Function | INSDECOMP:  INSDECOMP converts the displacement values generated from a stack of co-registered interferograms into temporally ordered and non-overlapping, line of sight (LOS) velocities. (mm./yr.). 
• Function | INSMODVEL: INSMODVEL removes the estimated atmospheric effects from the velocity estimates generated by the INSDECOMP module. 

Updated

• Function | SPOTBLUE: Updated function with new, more scientifically accurate formula, simplified parameters, and added support for different input data types.
• Function | INSPSN: updated to use better unwrapping, generate results comparable to other methods, and updated to output the displacement in meter values rather than radians.
• Function | INSCOREG: Clean up GCP reporting from co-registration process. 
• Function | INSRAW: Updates to properly process Sentinel-1 TOPSAR data
• Function | INSUNWRAP: Fix metadata issues when swapping phases
• Function | BIT2PNT: Fix issue with missing raster channel in output file, when trying to export to a vector layer.
• Sensor | Sentinel-1: Updated TOPSAR support to eliminate issues of phase boundaries being visible between bursts and swaths when assembling into a single scene.
• Sensor | Skysat: Added support for updated Basic data format where metadata file is not in same directory as data files.

Fixes

• Function | CHDETOP:  Issue fixed that OPERTYPE parameter was ignored when ALGO parameter was set to INTENRATIO.
• Function | DSMMERGE:  Updated documentation to remove references to previously retired functionality.
• Documentation | Python API: Updated documentation to describe that functions should not be run when dataset is open.
• Function | SPECLASS:  RDoc updates.
• Capability | Atmospheric Correction: Documentation updated with details on how to properly prepare imagery for the atmospheric correction process.
• Focus | Vector loading: Fixed issue of Focus hanging when trying to load E00 files.
• Mosaic Tool | Preview Images: Fixed issue with preview image size growing following editing and saving the mosaic project.
• Capability | JPEG2000: Fixed issue when exporting to JPEG2000 with the lossless option.
• Sensor | SPOT 6:  Repaired location problem found with SPOT data downloaded from the Airbus OneAtlas platform.
• Sensor | SPOT 1-3:  Fixed GSD issues in metadata for ingested multi-spectral and panchromatic datasets.

Version 2222.0.0

Highlights

Known Issues

With CATALYST Professional, customers using standalone dongles cannot run Python scripts that use the CATALYST Professional libraries outside of the software (i.e. Command Line, IDLE, IDEs). Python scripts can be run in the Focus Python Scripting window.

• Capability | Basemap display: Three new functionalities have been added to the Focus viewer that allow users to better understand the context and verify the rough accuracy of their data.

New Basemap Area: creates a new area pre-loaded with a user-defined basemap with the extents and projection set by that basemap dataset.

New Basemap Layer: adds a pre-configured basemap layer to the currently active area using the extents and projection of the area, not the basemap dataset.  

New Basemap Window: Opens a new viewer with a user-defined basemap pre-loaded and the currently selected map layers loaded on top.

• Utility | Per-channel compression for PCIDSK: Added the ability for channels in a PCIDSK file to be compressed individually, where previously all channels had to be compressed using the same methodology.
• Function | INSPSN:  Performs phase unwrapping and generates a connected network of persistent scatterers (PSCs). 
• Function | GREY2RGB: Function to convert a single greyscale raster channel into a RGB image using a colormap. 

Updated

• Function | GEOCODEDEM:  Greater level of metadata information generated and exposed to be used by DSMMERGE and other downstream functions.
• Function | DSMMERGE: Improvements to image quality by utilizing the most nadir imagery.  This leads to crisper images with less distortion and straighter edges.
• Function | EPIPOLARDSM: Reduced maximum memory consumption by 50% and improved geometry calculations leading to a 25% faster DSM extraction for satellite data. 
• Utility | Windowing: Panels within the CATALYST applications (Focus, OrthoEngine, etc…) have been updated so that resizing, window parenting rules and multiple monitor support are properly respected.
• Function | MRAFUSION: Improved to let the user decide which level of sharpness (at the cost of spectral fidelity) they desire. The performance of the algorithm has also been improved. 
• Capability | Atmospheric Correction: In Focus, the Top-of-Atmosphere Reflectance workflow has been updated to use the new, more accurate reflectance computation found in the DN2REFLECTANCE function. 
• Projection | Datum support: Support was added for the NADCON 5.0 grid shift format. With NADCON 5.0 supported, support for NAD83 (2011) and other modern American datums was added.

Fixes

• Function | GEOCODEDEM:  Issue fixed when running when MAPUNITS parameter is not specifically set.
• Function | ORTHO:  Results in all CATALYST environments will now be equivalent.
• Capability | Mosaicking: Improved performance when outputting results directly to TIFF files.
• Focus | WMTS support: Improved performance when accessing WMTS layers in the Focus viewing environment.
• Sensor | Sentinel-1:  Improved phase fitting both within the same swaths and across swaths.
• Sensor | SPOT 4:  Fix to incorrect metadata which was preventing proper radiometric normalization of panchromatic data.

Retired

As announced with our last service pack update, the following are no longer supported in this release:

• Centos 7 Linux operating system
• Python 2.7

New

• Capability | Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF: Support has been added for reading and writing of the Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF file standard. This standard was created to improve the performance and efficiency of reading a TIFF file over cloud-based infrastructure. You can create a Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF by using our FEXPORT algorithm with an input file that has existing overviews.  
• Utility | JPEG2000 compression for PCIDSK: Added support for “WAVE” JPEG2000 compression to the PCIDSK format (all data types). The <NoData> values in your image are maintained. This useful feature can provide users with a new way to save on disk usage without losing the integrity of their data.  
• Function | INSADJUSTDEM:  Corrects the random offset and tilt of relative DEMs as output by INSUNWRAP according to a reference DEM. This is necessary before a DEM can be geocoded, such as with GEOCODEDEM. 
• Function | BIT2PNT: A general purpose function for converting bitmap layers to point layers. 
• Sensor | SAOCOM: Support for the L-Band SAOCOM sensors 1A (SLC) and 1B (GRD) for all acquisition modes. 

Updated

• Python: Support for Python 3.6. 
• Function | Historical Airphoto Processing: Reference data support has been extended to include the use of indexed reference files in HAP projects. 
• Function | MOSPREP: Added a new “STRIPS” cutline auto-constraints algorithm. This algorithm works better when dealing with long strips of data, making sure that the most nadir pixels are used and that the cutlines are generated in a rectangular pattern. 
• Capability | Export Map: Added support for exporting maps to PNG file format.  
• Sensor | Landsat 8: Updated key file to use the .xml file for Landsat 8 Collection 1 Level-2 data to be consistent with the updated USGS product packaging. 

Fixes

• Function | OACALCATT: Users can now specify channels to be used for calculating Vegetation Indices, reducing the reliance on metadata. 
• Projection | Australian Datum 2020: Full support for GDA 2020 with TIF files. 
• Function | SPECL: Results from SPECL in the Focus GUI now correctly display in pseudocolor by default, instead of grayscale. 
• Function | MOSPREP: Fixed an issue that was causing a crash during mosaic preparation when crossing UTM zones. 
• Capability | Hyperspectral Spectra Plot: Fixed a crash when importing a spectral signatures file (.spl). 
• Projection| UTM: Fixed issue with SuperView-1 imagery in the Southern Hemisphere not being projected correctly. 
• Function | INSUNWRAP: Fixed an issue where INSUNWARP would crash when large masks provided. 
• Capability | JPEG2000: Resolved an issue causing the software to not respond for a few seconds when panning with large compressed images. 
• Sensor | Jilin-1: Jilin-1 03B data are now compatible with the DN2REFLECTANCE algorithm. 
• UI/UX | Clipping & Subsetting: The Clipping & Subsetting panel is now resizable.  
• Remote Data | Linux: Fixed crash when opening a https connection on Linux. 
• Capability | Mosaic Tool: Fixed a blend width WYSIWYG issue in the Mosaic Tool Collection Viewer.  
• Capability | Focus Viewer: Fixed an intermittent crash when panning around images. 
• Sensor | Kompsat-3A: Fixed an issue when trying to work with link files of Kompsat-3A. 
• Utility| JPEG2000: Fixed an issue when trying to create extremely large JPEG 2000 files.

New

• Function | OESETACC: Set the accuracy values for TPs, GCPs and exterior orientation (airphoto only) in OrthoEngine project files in a scripted environment such as python or EASI.
• Function | INSPSC: Process a stack of co-registered SAR images to identify stable reflectors, (permanent scattering candidates) generally containing a single dominant scattering mechanism which is only marginally affected by temporal and geometric decorrelation. These points can be utilized to estimate and remove atmospheric artifacts from a stack of interferograms.
• Capability | WMTS support: Connect to external Web Map Tile Service servers to display read-only maps in Geomatica Focus. Compliant with OGC Web Map Tile Service 1.0.0 specification.
• Capability | Point Precision export: Define the number of decimal places to be kept when exporting TP/GCP accuracy information from OrthoEngine.
• Sensor Support | Jilin-1 07b: Support added for Level 1 datasets. Jilin-1 07b is an optical satellite featuring high resolution panchromatic, multispectral imagers.

Updated

• Function | Atmospheric Correction: Replaced DN2TOA with DN2REFLECTANCE in the atmospheric correction wizard. The DN2REFLECTANCE function is an improved version of DN2TOA, providing more options for output scaling and producing more accurate results. Users can also generate a spectral classification layer within the Atmospheric Correction wizard.
• Function | SPECLASS: Reduction of false positive classifications, with particular improvements to reducing the over representation of the ‘senescent vegetation’ class.
• Function | GCPPRUNE: Spatially prune Ground Control Points (GCPs) to achieve a more complete coverage of image extents, without overweighting a particular area. The spatially uniform GCP coverage ensures that the refined math model with the points is stable and accurate.
• Utility | Threadsafe Compression and Decompression: Improves performance of reading and writing compressed data.
• Utility | JPEG2000 Optimization: Reading and rendering JP2 formatted data is now 3-4x faster than previous Geomatica releases.
• Utility | ADS Rendering: Improved rendering speed of ADS imagery.
• Function | APANSHARP: Improved pansharpening pre-processing by applying SUPERMATCH to improve the alignments of poorly co-registered MS and PAN bands before pansharpening.
• Function | INSUNWRAP: Metadata tags added for successful unwrapping of ICEYE SLC data.
• Sensor | ADS: Improved handling of ADS imagery to reduce time of reading and writing operations.

Fixes

• Projection | State Plane: Improved support for State Plane coordinate systems.
• Projection | State Plane: Added support for State Plane 1600 – Kentucky Single Zone.
• Function | SAR Clipping/Subsetting: Clipping tool now accounts for image rotation and the slant-range geometry when using a clip file. The math models are correctly updated in the clipped image’s metadata.
• Projection | Australian Datum GDA 2200: Improved support for the Australian Datum GDA 2200.
• Function | INSUNWRAP: Fixed the ability to unwrap sparsely populated interferograms.
• Function | INSTOPO: Reduced number of artifacts once topographic phase is removed in areas of high elevation.
• Function | INSRAW: Now correctly produces RAW interferograms on subsetted Sentinel-1 images when the area of interest used is close to the limit of a burst.
• Utility | ADS GCP Auto locate: Improved the auto location coordinates for GCPs when multiple image windows are opened.
• Utility | Multiple Channel Selection: Fixed the selection of multiple channels ignoring the first selected channel in Algorithm Librarian & Modeler.
• Utility | Mosaic Tool: Improved rendering of previews in mosaic tool with a blend width to properly show WYSISWG display.
• Sensor Support | GF3: Updated footprint of GF3 images in OrthoEngine.
• Function | MOSDEF: Changed data type of output resolution to double precision float for more accurate output resolution.
• Utility | Tiled Images: When working with tiled images, .img files with pyramids now open correctly.
• Utility | Object Analyst: The Object Analyst Vector Layer and Field Selector window can now be resized to display all fields.
• Utility | RPC Segments: Copying RPC segments between files with different number of pixels/lines will now only  recreate the RPC from state vectors when using SAR imagery, instead of all imagery. Function | SARINGEST: Fixed calibration of RCM descending pass data.
• Function | INSUNWARP: INSUNWRAP (BURNMASK) no longer crashes when large vector files are used.
• Utility | OrthoEngine: Fixed a crash when loading the Manually Edit EO panel in OrthoEngine.
• Utility | OrothEngine: Fixed an error causing an endless loop when selecting an unlicensed model type during project creation.

Highlights

• Super Registration: Our industry leading co-registration algorithms, capable of 1/10th pixel accuracy, is now available in Geomatica Banff. This level of accuracy is an important component when creating analysis-ready data (ARD) and analyzing deep stacks (e.g. open data cubes).
• End-to-end Object-based Analysis in Python: With the addition of the OAGTIMPORT function, users can now create an end-to-end object-based classification and feature extraction pipeline in python with the ability to import ground truth points.
• Performance boost creating InSAR products: The addition of our new multi-look phase unwrapping algorithm (INSMLOOK) significantly reduces the processing time generate interferometric products, used to create DEMs and deformation maps.

New

• Sensor Support | ICEYE GRD Support: Added GDB-level support for ICEYE GRD data (to compliment the SLC support that was added previously). Full support of ICEYE GRD and SLC data.
• Function | SUPERMATCH: Extract a grid of matching points between overlapping ortho images to create an output file which provides a pixel by pixel mapping between the two ortho images. SUPERMATCH + SUPERAPPLY make up our new Super Registration method for creating 1/10th pixel co-registration accuracy
• Function | SUPERAPPLY: Resamples an image file using an offset file that maps from the output to the input image geometry. SUPERMATCH + SUPERAPPLY make up our new Super Registration method for creating 1/10th pixel co-registration accuracy
• Function | INSMLOOK: Multi-look phase unwrapping for InSAR imagery. Significantly reduces the time required to perform phase unwrapping without impact quality.
• Function | SVREGSETUP: Derives all parameters required for the spectral normalization process when a spectral image is provided. Important for multiple sensor support.
• Function | OAGTIMPORT: New algorithm for importing ground-truth points into an Object Analyst workflow. Enables one to fully script an OA workflow without using Focus.
• Capability | Smart GeoFill in Mosaic Tool: Introduced GeoFill capability to Mosaic Tool (Analogous to Smart GeoFill in Focus). Quickly and easily fix imperfections in the mosaic preview before generating the full resolution mosaic

Updated

• Capability | Epipolar Generation: Parallel processing to improve the speed of generating a large batch of epipolar pairs in OrthoEngine
• Capability | DEM Extraction: Parallel processing to improve the speed of extracting DEMs from multiple pairs of stereo images in OrthoEngine
• Capability | Tie Point Collection: Parallel processing to improve the speed of collecting tie points on multiple images in OrthoEngine
• Function | FBMTIE: Parallel processing to improve the speed of feature-based tie point collection on multiple images using the FBMTIE function in python
• Function | REPROJ: Added support for point spread function 2D kernels. Improves downsampling of imagery
• UI / UX | Overview Support for TILED sensors: Performance boost when zooming and panning around an image from a tiled sensor in the Focus viewer
• Function | CLIP: Add ability to append vector attribute string to output file names in CLIP. This will allow users to automatically provide more meaningful names of the output files
• Capability | Clipping and Subsetting: Add ability to append vector attribute string to output file names in when clipping and subsetting in Focus. This will allow users to automatically provide more meaningful names of the output files
• UI/UX | Ortho on-the-fly Performance Boost: Ortho on-the-fly will use DEM overviews for faster rendering of images
• UI/UX | Improve Swath Selector GUI: Improve interface when opening rasters with sub-datasets (aka swaths)
• UI/UX | Updated GUI Library for Linux: Upgrade SGL library to use GTK3 instead of GTK2 on Linux. Better user-experience by using more modern and standard library.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that was causing the Mosaic Tool to crash when editing an edge dodging point on image with no bundle colour balancing
• Fixed an issues that was causing Modeler to crash when creating new categories
• OrthoEngine’s Ortho Generation will no longer change the output channel descriptions
• The Australian Datum GDA2020 is now properly supported
• Fixed an issues causing OrthoEngine to crash when running two-pass TPs
• Fixed issue causing incorrect exterior orientation height being calculated
• All SRTM HGT are now georeferenced
• GCPPRUNE function now has proper error handling to manage corrupted segments
• Updated install guides for CentOS 8
• Fixed an issue in Focus when drawing histograms
• The Reproject GUI is now resizable
• Data Merge now works with Foot projection

Highlights

• Complete UAV Workflow: New camera self-calibration and 2-pass point collection workflow allows users to work with data that has no calibration report and generate accurate results quickly
• Random Trees: Random Forest algorithm (Breiman (2001), called “Random Tree”, provides users with another industry-best advanced machine learning algorithm for classifying objects

New

• Platform | CentOS 8: Added full support for Red Hat’s CENTOS 8 Linux operating system distribution
• Function | APUNDISTORT: Resamples raw imagery to compensate for distortions in aerial photos, reducing the effects of distortion caused by camera lens, atmospheric refraction, earth curvature or other unpredictable errors. Distortion corrected images can be used directly in stereo measurement to improve epipolar generation and the quality of the subsequent DEM
• Function | MIRROR: Mirror images along the vertical or horizontal axes, maintaining the location of GCPs in the process. MIRROR can be applied to airborne radar or multispectral data, enabling the inversion of descending images to ascending images, or to convert left-looking imagery to right-looking imagery.
• Function | OARTCLASS: Uses the Random Trees (RT) algorithm to run a supervised classification based on an RT training model you specify. Technology based on the Random Forest algorithm (Breiman (2001).
• Function | OARTTRAIN: Uses a set of object samples, stored in a segmentation-attribute table, to develop a predictive model by creating a set of random decision-trees and by taking the majority vote for the predicted class. Technology based on the Random Forest algorithm (Breiman (2001)
• Function | SELFCAL: Refines tie points and ground control points with camera self-calibration. Note: Camera self-calibration is required when no external camera calibration has been provided, or if the provided external camera calibration is not accurate.
• Function | SVSPLREG: Use local or global regression to calibrate imagery to a well-calibrated reference image, preserving the radiometric quality of the data and adjusting pixel values to match as closely as possible to the reference values.
• Function | TIEIMAGE: Find TPs and optionally GCPs using Fast Fournier Transform (FFT) phase matching. FFT methods produce a more uniform grid of points and is appropriate for data sets with good initial estimates of exterior orientation. When used in addition to FBM, TIEIMAGE is a powerful method for determine the exterior orientation of UAV imagery.
• Function | VDISSOLVE: Automatically dissolve the boundaries between vector shapes from an input segment. All attribute information from the input shapes are maintained in the dissolved shape, enabling the robust and easy calculation of dissolved shape attributes.
• Sensor Support | ICEYE: Support added for SLC datasets. ICEYE is a SAR Satellite constellation capable of reliably imaging the entire Earth every 1-3 hours
• Sensor Support | Orbita: Support added for Level 1B OHS-2A, OHS-2C, and OHS-2D datasets. Orbita is a hyperspectral satellite constellation with a spectral resolution of 2.5nm, and a ground sampling distance of 10m

Updated

• UI/UX | Object Analyst: Improved progress monitor for classification processes
• UI/UX | Object Analyst: Better consistency of colours throughout the OA process
• UI/UX | Focus: Upgraded treelist look & feel, including better drag & drop capabilities when adding files to the FILES tab
• Capability | Spectra Reflectance Plot: Improved support for uncalibrated data, including the update of target metadata using underlying reflectance datasets for comparison
• Capability | DEM Extraction: Addition of DSM merge colour balancing methodology for digital/UAV aerial projects.
• UI/UX | OrthoEngine Data Import: When adding data files to the project, an option now enables the system to recursively add all files within a directory.
• Functions | AUTOTIE/AUTOTIEADS/AUTOGCP/AUTOCHIP: Upgrade performance of FFTP matching by integrating code across functions
• Function | CRPROJ: Automatically read the camera name, focal length and chip size directly from input metadata tags
• Function | FBMTIE: Reduced occurrence of blunders by 90% and improved speed of TP collection
• Function GEOCODEDEM: Improvements to sharpness of output using better resampling methodology
• Function | INSCOREG: Improvements to the TOPS deramping and demodulating steps in the coregistration process
• Function | INSRAW: Implemented phase-fitting across the swaths of the interferogram, which when added to the phase-fitting for bursts help to eliminate all vertical and horizontal phase discontinuities in the resulting interferograms
• Function | OASVMTRAIN: Improved speed and accuracy by reading attributes directly as the double data type
• Function | OASVMCLASS: The SVM model file has been extended to include the list of field names used to generate the model, so users no longer need to specify a TFILE to provide field names, improving automation.
• Function | ORTHO: Modification of EDGECLIP parameter to support clipping before (raw imagery) or after orthorectification process
• Function | POLY2RAS: Support added for using string attributes, which makes is easier to convert a classified vector from Object Analyst to a raster
• Function | PNTRFN: Faster and more efficient collection of tie points, improving rate of block bundle model convergence
• Function | REPROJ: Added support for additional resampling methods: Lagrange interpolation, gaussian resampling, sin based resampling and complex SAR resampling
• Sensor Support | Landsat ARD: Updated the default RGB band combination to display ARD products as NIR-SWIR-RGB, improving the ease of using Landsat ARD data for spectral calibration. Addition of support for Surface Temperature (ST) products
• Sensor Support | PALSAR-2: Full support for the RADARSAT Constellation Mission GeoCoded Detected or Complex products
• Sensor Support | Sentinel-1: Metadata updates to help improve the overall InSAR process for TOPS data

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