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Latest Release: CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 22, 2023)
Welcome to CATALYST 2.0
This release includes a significant update to our development environment, which includes updates to most of the third-party libraries that are used in our software. For more information please consult the “General Acknowledgements” section of the Help documentation.
| Service Pack | Type | Feature | Title | Description | Product |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Licensing | License | Updated licensing/security | In order to continue providing software that is safe and secure for all users, CATALYST 2.0 will require new licenses for all customers. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Defect Fix | Data and Projection Support | MapInfo data- Projection issues | Fix was applied for furthr problems discovered when reading WebMerc projection from MapInfo TAB files | Professional / Enterprise / Insights |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Defect Fix | Mosaic functionality | Mosaic polygons not properly closed. | Intersections are now properly reported in the code meaning that small-scale openings are now closed properly when the mosaic definition is being created. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Defect Fix | Orthorectification | Orthorectification issues with data crossing the anti-meridian | Ortho output will not longer get splitand placed 180 degrees from one side to the other. when the data crosses the anti-meridian | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Defect Fix | Sensor Import | WorldView-3 data ingested all-black | Fix was applied to the TILE size selection so that the ingested Panchromatic layers will not longer use more memory than was available. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Defect Fix | Function | MODEL2RPC - generated error for some mosaic work | Buffer used when doing MODEL2RPC calculations will no longer overflow the memotny that is available. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Defect Fix | OrthoEngine | Compatibility issues with aerial projects from older CATALYST versions (DEM Extraction process) | Projects from versions older than CATALYST SP5 will open properly in the new CATALYST version. | Professional |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Defect Fix | Installation | Issues with installation - postinstall script | CATALYST installs default DEM data for processing and these files were not getting properly installed, resulting in a variety of errors when the files are called by the software. The postinstall script has been fixed to ensure proper installation occurs. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Defect Fix | Pyramid | Enterprise Pyramid job does not identify TIFF files | Default file name search will now look for all *.pix and*.tif files. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Defect Fix | Function | TIEIMAGE function and Enterprise Tie Point Collection Failing and Running out of Memory | Memory usage has been completely rewritten in the TIEIMAGE function for large datasets, which is also used in the Enterprise Tie Point Collection module. | Enterprise / Professional |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Defect Fix | Visualization | Focus pop-up windows do not appear on secondary displays as expected | Fix was made by adjusting the system calculates what would be considered off-screen when a secondary monitor is present. | Professional |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Licensing | Functions | INSCOREG/INSCOREG2/INSRAW/INSRAW2 license changes | INSCOREG and INSRAW functions are utilized in workflows that are not InSAR-specific, therefore licensing has beenchanged to a more general package that is included in all CATALYST bundles. | Professional |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Defect Fix | Function | Enterprise Pansharpening module | Pansharpening processes willnow correctly identify the corrrect pairs of data to use in the processing. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Defect Fix | Aerial Production | HAP application fails during Ingest and Coarse Alignment | A fix has been made to the progress monitor that is enabled during the Ingest and Coarse Alignment phase, which was ending up in a unending loop that caused the application to fail. | Professional |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Enhancement | Sensor | SuperView NEO-1 Satellite support | Support added for SuperView NEO-1 data. This is 30 cm Panchromatic and 1.2 m 4-band Multispectral dataset. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Retirement | Function | ARE | The algorithm named ARE, used to calculate area under a bitmap has been retired. | Professional |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Enhancement | Performance Improvement | CATALYST installer | Unused files and data in the tThe CATALYST Professional and Enterprise installers have been removed. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | New Feature | Scripting | Support for Python 3.8 | CATALYST 2.0 requires Python 3.8. It is now supported for both Linux and Windows. This causes us to eliminate support for Python 3.6. | Professional / Enterprise / Insights / Microservices |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Retirement | Function | CDLANDC | CDLANDC was an function used to read older Landsat data from CD, which is no longer required with new Landsat delivery formats. | Professional |
| CATALYST 2.0 SP0 (February 25, 2023) | Retirement | Function | CDSAR | CDSAR was an function used to read older SAR data from CD that is no longer required in the market. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Object Analyst - Vegetation indices | Object Analyst was not properly saving the calculated vegetaton indices to a saved project. Now the system will properly save all calculated indices. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Object Analyst - Texture attribute calculations | Object Analyst was not able to calculate texture attribute values for a subset of selected channel. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Enhancement | Sensor | Pleiades NEO Atmospheric Correction | Added support for Pleiades NEO sensor to all atmospheric correction workflows. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Defect Fix | Function | HAZEREM | Function was updated to not only output processed channels, but also to include auxilary channel information, needed for downstream processing, as well. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Defect Fix | Function | ATCOR_T | Function was updated to ensure all necessary metadata information is also copied to the output file and channels. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | New | Function | INSCOREG2 | INSCOREG2 matches each burst independently, whereas INSCOREG matches on all bursts at once. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Enhancement | Function | INSGEODISP | New options simplify the usage of the function and make it so that users do not have to enter the time range manually. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Enhancement | Function | INSINFO | Added 2 more InSAR-related outputs and added an option to compare every input to every other input (instead of only comparing to a single reference file) | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Enhancement | Function | INSPSC | System will now limit the density of points collected since collecting too many points in a small area is redundant, so instead we collect up to a maximum amount and then ignore subsequent PSCs | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Enhancement | Function | INSCALDEFO3 | New sparse pyramid interpolation methodology applied which leads to improved results by better elimination of residual errors. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | New | Function | INSFITSTACK | New function which will fit a low order polynomial to a stack of multi-temporal data and generates the coefficient of determination. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Object Analyst - attribute table crash | Users for the Object Analyst tools in Focus can now open an edited attribute table to utilize in a new classification. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | New | Sensor | Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 | Support added for for Landsat Collection 2, level 2 data. Support has been included for all 5 sensors that are available from the USGS. (Landsat 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9) | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Enhancement | Format | Upgrade LAS/LAZ file support | Added support for an updated revision of the LAS / LAZ point cloud data. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Enhancement | Sensor | Pleiades NEO | Support was updated to include the ability to utilize the Pleiades NEO 4-band display product, as well as the 6-band product. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | HAP Ingest for Linux | Issues were discovered with the Ingest capability for HAP on the supported linux distribution, Ubuntu. These issues have been resolved in the SP8 release. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Retirement | Data Support | Oracle database support | All Oracle database support has been removed from all applications and documentation. This includes retirement of ORARASLOAD and ORAVECLOAD functions. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Defect Fix | Data Access | Remote data wizard, treelist not displaying | In the Focus, remote data wizard, data was not loadable due to the root item of the tree not being displayed. This is now expanded allowing it to be displayed and selected. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Enterprise, Data Scaling job | Corrected an issue with the units of the Tail Trimming % parameter in the Image Scaling job, which was generating incorrect results. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | SCALE | Output messaging and documentation updated for image scaling function, SCALE. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Save As issue with NoData when scaling | Ensured the NoData value is correctly evaluated and honored in Focus Save As,when scaling from 16U to 8U, with Visual scaling. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Retirement | Data Support | Eliminate support for all OGDI based formats | Support has been removed for the following OGDI (Open Geographic Datastore Interface) based formats: ADRG, CADRG, CIB, DCW, RPF, VMAP, VPF, VRF. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Enhancement | Data and Projection support | MapInfo data - projection issue | Fix was applied to allow proper reading of WebMerc projection from MapInfo TAB files | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | Enhancement | Data support | Private S3 bucket support for all regions | We now support reading (streaming) COG files from AWS S3 for all regions. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP8 (October 7, 2022) | New Feature | Data support | Add support for AWS S3 on EC2 instances | If CATALYST Enterprise/Professional is installed on a EC2 instance we can stream COGs from private S3 buckets using instance roles instead of using access and secret keys. | Professional / Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | New | Sensor | Landsat 7 Collection 2 format for Level 1 products | Updated the Landsat 7 support to include Collection 2 Level-1 data sets. This includes the Combined (OLI and TIRS), OLI (Visible) and TIRS (Thermal) products. This includes 30m resolution multi-spectral and thermal data and 15m panchromatic data. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Enhancement | Capability | Use SourceID for PhotoID in mosaicking tools | Using the SourceID tag for PhotoID increases the likelihood of uniqueness of the input image ID in the mosaicking tools. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Sensor | Stop creation of DefaultRGB metadata tags for Landsat (LDCM) data | DefaultRGB metadata tags were causing issues in processing workflows and visualization. Since LDCM ingest produces proper wavelengthmetadata, the system will now default to using this metadata for display purposes. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Special characters not appearing properly as Surround Elements in Focus | Extended characters such as è, é, ê, ë, È, É, Ê, Ë now appear correctly in Focus Surround elements. The fix works for PCI's fonts and for True Type fonts. The fix does not work for PostScript fonts on Linux. Linux users need to use a PCI font if they need extended characters. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Default file creation option set to TILED | The tiled interleave option (called TILED256) is set as the default file interleave across all functions. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Histogram custom tail trim window opens properly | The custom histogram tail trim window can be re-opened with the preferences applied. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Function | DN2REFLECTANCE | Landsat-8 C2L1 DN2REFLECTANCE output was trimmed from each side of the scene when running on all bands due to NoData values on some channels. Now the output is not trimmed/masked. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Low-end pixels no longer set to NoData after scaling | In Focus, low-end pixels no longer set to NoData after scaling and using the 'Save As' utility. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | DEM Editor crashes when running Terrain filter | DEM Editor no longer crashes when attempting to run the Terrain filter. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | RST item can be removed from Files Tree | In Focus, removing a Representation Style Table (RST) item from the Files tree no longer causes a software crash. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | TIFF file size | Fixed issue that output TIFF files were 4-5 times the expected size. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | New | Sensor | PlanetScope ortho tile 8U data | PlanetScope data support now includes orthorectified tiled 8U image data. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Function | Null Cell Values in custom filter | Fixed issue with the Custom Filter in Focus, so that NoData pixels are treated properly and not used in the filter computation.contributing nothing to the filtered pixel. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Enhancement | Function | FIMPORT | Changed FIMPORT function to import channels in order of input file's channel order . | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | New | Sensor | RCM - Compact Polarimetric data - MLC format | Support added for RCM - Compact Polarimetric data - MLC format. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Function | Smart GeoFill shift in pixels | When setting blend width, Smart GeoFill pasted pixels are no longer shifted. When reprojecting the data, the output clipping rectangle has been corrected. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Function | Object Analyst crash when changing Class Name | In Focus, Object Analyst no longer crashes when changing Class Name. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Enhancement | Function | INSSTACK | Added Average Velocity to INSSTACK, which allows for calculating the average ground movement of an area for a time period. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Defect Fix | Function | INSGEODISP | INSGEODISP's displacement calculation results are now matching expected results. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP7 (July 4, 2022) | Enhancement | Capability | TIFF file projection improvements | Our TIF projection support has been standardized to include the EPSG code. For TIF projections, the EPSG code is now written into the file header. The PROJ open-source library can now correctly identify the projection using the EPSG code. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | Enhancement | Capability | Fix image pairing in DEM Extraction | Improve how the MINPC parameter is used in the DEMEDPREP, EPIPOLAR, and FEPIPOLARCAND algorithms. It ensures that the image pairs chosen to create epipolars are better matched. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | New | Sensor | Added Beijing-3 Support | Support added for Beijing-3 (BJ3A1) sensor data, which includes 4-bands of multispectral data at 2.0m, and a panchromatic band at 0.5m resolution. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | New | Sensor | Added SkySat Collect product support | Updated SkySat support to now include SkySat Collect products, as delivered by Planet | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | New | Sensor | Added Superview-2 Support | Support added for Superview-2 sensor data, which includes 4-bands of multispectral data at 2.0m, and a panchromatic band at 0.5m resolution. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Fixed Object Analyst Batch Classification | Fixed crash within OASVMCLASS PPF, when writing to model file with undefined value, which also affected the Object Analyst Batch Classification workflow | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | Enhancement | Function | Improve SARTOPOCAL and SARSYNTH | Improved synthesis of backscattering data, which is fundamental to radiometric terrain correction. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | New | Function | SARSUBNOISE | This new function reduces the available intensities for a SAR data set by a provided noise value. The adjustment is applied to all data points and points with power values below the threshold will result in zero power value. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | New | Function | INSCALDEFO3 | INSCALDEFO3 is a new function to remove residual errors in surface displacement products using pre-defined stationary reference points stored in a text file. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | New | Function | INSUNWRAP2 | Improved function which has been engineered to produce more reliable results and also includes fixes to eliminate tiling artifacts. It is expected that this function will replace the existing INSUNWRAP function in a future release. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | New | Function | INSGEODISP | New function created to calculate both the vertical and easterly velocities in meters per year at user specified intervals. The input is a stack of interferograms produced by INSDMV. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Fixed None Enhancement to not apply tail trim in Mosaic Tool | The 'None' image enhancement, in Mosaic Tool erroneously applied tail trims and included the minimum and maximums. It now does not apply tail trims. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Add to Area capability in Attribute table sometimes adds the file from the wrong row | Fixed the Add to Area capability in the Attribute table from adding the file from the wrong row in the table when there are selected rows and the highlighted row is not amongst those selected. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | New | Sensor | Added Landsat 9 Support | Added support for Level 1 Landsat 9 data which became available in Collection 2 format. This includes 30m resolution multi-spectral and thermal data and 15m panchromatic data. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | Enhancement | Capability | Fixed None Enhancement to not apply tail trim in Focus | The 'None' image enhancement, in Focus, erroneously applied tail trims and included the minimum and maximums. It now does not apply tail trims. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | Enhancement | Documentation | Improved Pair Selection documentation for DEM Extraction modules | Improved the Pair Selection method parameter documentation in the DEM Extraction modules, to better explain each pair selection method. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | Enhancement | Capability | Change 'Delete Empty Tile' parameter to check box | Changed the mosaicking jobs Delete Empty Tiles parameter UI from a drop down to a checkbox. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | Enhancement | Job | Add tiling capabilities to DEM Extraction modules | Add the ability to the DEM Extraction modules to create output as tiled DEM mosaic files rather than as a single, huge DEM file. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | Enhancement | Utility | Enhance DEM Index File Creator job | Added Automatic option to Elevation Datum and DEM Units parameters in DEM Index File Creator module. The module can now determine those values from the input data, rather than user entry. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Fixed crash when deleting GCPs in OrthoEngine | Fixed crash in OrthoEngine when deleting GCP from Residual Panel, while Project Overview panel is open | Professional |
| CATALYST SP6 (April 2, 2022) | Enhancement | Sensor | Updated Landsat 8 support to include Collection 2 format for Level 1 products | Updated the Landsat 8 support to include Collection 2 Level-1 data sets. This includes the Combined (OLI and TIRS), OLI (Visible) and TIRS (Thermal) products. This includes 30m resolution multi-spectral and thermal data and 15m panchromatic data. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Security | Utility | Log4j Security | CATALYST Enterprise has been updated to use the latest version of the Apache Log4j code, in order to eliminate the vulnearbility to hackers. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | New | Sensor | Pleiades NEO | Support has been added for the Pleiades NEO sensor, which includes up to 6-bands of multispectral data at 1.2m, and a panchromatic band at 0.3m resolution. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Sensor | KhalifaSat | Issues found when ingesting full MS and panchromatic KhalifaSat datasets have been resolved so that the 3m MS and 0.7m panchromatic data can be fully utilized | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | New | Sensor | DubaiSat-2 | Added full support for 4m multispectral and 1m panchromatic DubaiSat-2 data in CATALYST Enterprise | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Smart GeoFill tool | Fixed defect where pasted pixels were not representative of the actual pixels that were copied. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Stereo GCP Collection | Fixed defect that caused stereo GCP collection to crash when working on a single image. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Camera Calibration panel | Warning added to avoid issue where photo width/height ratio do not match chip width/height ratio | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Use of feet units | Issues when using State Plane feet units in OrthoEngine project have been repaired in various panels. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Residual Report panel | Fixed defect that caused Residual Report panel to crash OrthoEngine | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Project Overview | Repaired problem where inactive images caused the Project Overview window to open incorrectly. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Tiepoint Collection | Fixed defect that crashed the Tiepoint collection tool when using certain imagery in a rational functions only project. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Function | PNTREFN | Fixed defect thatg caused PNTREFN to fail when working with SuperView-1 data | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | GCP Collection | Fixed issue with point refinement functionality, which was causing GCP Collection job to not complete properly | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Job | Data Ingest - GCP/TP Exclusion Masks | Fixed mask generation failure problems when importing data fromcertain sensors including IKONOS and Resourcesat-2 | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Enhancement | Job | GCP Collection log reports | Added the logging of the reference data being used to the output from the GCP Collection jobs. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Function | PYRAMID | PYRAMID function now properly deletes the associated metadata tags. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Pyramid warning messages | In previous versions when you open a file with broken pyramids multiple warning messages would be opened. This has been modified to only show a single message is shown for each file. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Reprojection functionality | Reprojection through Focus or using the REPROJ function no longer will produces artifact when using the GAUSSIAN resampling. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | Object Analyst, Rule-based Classification | The problem with Object Analyst terminating when using the Rule-based Classification has been fixed. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | PYRAMID function, resampling | PYRAMID cubic resampling was causing issues found during mosaicking (artifacts found in output). These problems have been repaired. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Capability | CATALYST Enterprise, network inconsistency | Customers have had failures when brief network stoppages happen during processing. To solve the problem we added a retry when there is a failure copying data to or from the data server. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Enhancement | Sensor | Kompsat-3A | Support added for full range of workflows using Kompsat-3A. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Enhancement | Capability | METADATA tab in Focus properties panel | The filter text field now gets the default focus so users can edit this field immediately upon opening the tab. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Enhancement | Sensor | Sentinel-1 TOPS data | Changed to ingest functionality of Sentinel-1 Terrain Observation by Progressive Scans (TOPS) data to limit the error propagation due to phase fitting errors between swaths. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Enhancement | Sensor | Sentinel-1 GRD data | Fix alignment issue for Sentinel-1 ground resolved distance (GRD) data (MSL vs ELL). | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | New | Function | INSCOHSTATS | New function for coherence time series analysis. Extract and stack a series of coherence layers from a set of interferograms of same dimension and compute statistics such as the average coherence and its standard deviation. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | New | Function | PSSARTSA | New PPF for amplitude time series analysis. Calculate multi-temporal metrics (amplitude) from a time-ordered series of SAR images. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP5 (Feb 15, 2022) | Defect Fix | Function | SARTOPOCAL | Fixed SARTOPOCAL performance issues for ground resolved distance (GRD) data. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | New | Sensor | Jilin-1 (JL1) 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. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | New | Sensor | Jilin-1 (JL1) 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. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | New | Sensor | Jilin-1 (JL1) 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. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | INSPSN | In the Persistant Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) Workflow, 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | INSDMV | In the Persistant Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) Workflow, addition of regularization (REGUFACT parameter) to the function in order to handle noisy data better. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Enhancement | Capability | SAR Data | For ground range detected (GRD) SAR data, change published data to be intensity data instead of amplitude data. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Enhancement | Documentation | SCALE function | Updated Help Documentation with information about proper usage of the NO_DATA_VALUE metadata tag within the function. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Enhancement | Sensor | Kompsat-3A | Updated newer Kompsat-3A datasets with proper radiometric gain and offset values. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Enhancement | Job | Orthorectification | Unused code removed which caused footprint status information to be reported even when no footprints were generated. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Enhancement | Job | Aerial GCP Collection | Default ground control points (GCPS) collection method is not set to be one-pass fine method, as previous default two-pass method would not work correctly due to the lack of RPC information. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Convert DEM Datum | Fixed to ensure process completes as expected. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Filter Tool | Fixed issues reported when running using image files with less than three layers. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Hyperspectral Plot | Fixed issues reported that panel was crashing if opened with no data loaded in the Focus map window. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus GUI | Fixed GUI issues reported with improper display of options for Data Type when using the Import ASCII Points functionality. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Reprojection | Fixed issues reported that channel order was scrambled in file after reprojection. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Import GCPs | Fixed defect which crashed OrthoEngine if the imported GCP file was not UTF-8 encoded. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Vector Conversion | Fixed problem reported of data being truncated when converting from GeoJSON format to SHP. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Function | LINK function | Fixed reported issue where the function intermittently crashed when using SPOT-6 data. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Function | GEOCODEDEM | Fixed to ensure process completes as expected. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | Kompsat-3A | Fixed identification issues with Kompsat-3A data which was being displayed as Kompsat-3. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | Kompsat-3/3A | Fixed georeferencing issue with Level-1R datasets, which showed a misalignment between the MS and PAN data. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | MAXAR 15cm HD | Fixed performance issues with ingest/processing of 15cm MAXAR datasets. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | ADS | Fixed ingest problem with projection when trying to ingest ADS Level 2 imagery. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Using Mask parameters | Fixed reported issues with jobs failing when using mask information. This was reported when using the Super Registration job, but the fix applies to other jobs where masks are used as well. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Documentation | Image Scaling | Updated the Image Scaling documentation to include correct help for the tail trimming parameter. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Job | Orthorectification | Improper naming issue for pan-sharpening (PSH) imagery corrected. System no longer names PSH imagery as panchromatic (PAN) | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Job | DEM Extraction | Fixed error for ADS DEM Extraction where child jobs were being immediately killed by the processing server. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Job | Data Ingest | Fixed reported issue where the job intermittently crashed when using SPOT-6 data. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | ALOS AVNIR | Fixed reported defect where ALOS AVNIR imagery was not being ingested properly in Data Ingest job. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP4 (Sept 23, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | ADS | Fixed ingest problem with projection when trying to ingest ADS level 2 imagery. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | New | 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | INSPSN | In the Persistant Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) Workflow, this function was restructured to eliminate duplicate computations based on input layers, improving the overall performance of the function. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | INSPSC | In the Persistant Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) Workflow, addition of average backscatter and dispersion ratio to output from this function. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Enhancement | Data support | OpenStreetMap | CATALYST Professional now includes support for vector data from OpenStreetMap that is delivered as a GeoJSON file. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Enhancement | Data support | GeoJSON | Updated GeoJSON to handle polygon and multi-polygon with multiple internal and external holes. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Enhancement | Sensor | Landsat-8 | Support added for Landsat-8 Collection 1, Level 2 data to the Data Ingest module. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Enhancement | Job | Mosaic Preparation | Void file that is created as part of the preparation process is now being kept and can be used for investigating problem areas in output mosaic results. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Convert DEM Datum | Fixed to ensure process completes as expected. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | HAP | Fixed issues when running HAP Coarse Alignment process on large strip line TIFF files. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, InSAR Temporal Chart | Fixed issues reported when displaying the results from the INSSTACKPSI function. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Object Analyst | Fixed problems reported when extracting Polarimetric SAR attribute. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Defect Fix | Projection | Australian Datum 2020 | Repaired issues with shifting data when using GDA 2020. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Defect Fix | Function | SARINGESTAOI function | Fixed reported issue where the function crashed when the vector segment specified did not exist. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Defect Fix | Function | GREY2RGB | Fixed output LUT naming issues and also added functionality to copy the math model segment to the output dataset. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Defect Fix | Documentation | ODC Metadata Generation | Repaired improper help link in ODC Metadata Generation documentation. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP3 (July 15, 2021) | Defect Fix | Job | Mosaic Preparation | Fixed error and warning messages that were generated when cutline constraint file cannot be found by the system. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | New | Function | COMPOSITE | 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | New | 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | New | Function | 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | New | Sensor | Capella | Capella aims to provide the most frequent, timely and high-quality SAR imagery products available. Support has been added for the X-Band Capella data for both single look complex (SLC) and geocoded terrain corrected (GEO) products. NOTE: Site SLC is currently not supported. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | MOSRUN | In the Persistant Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) Workflow, added more information to the output report of this function 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | SUPERMATCH | In the Persistant Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) Workflow, SUPERMATCH improvements were made in the matching to better handle large rapidly changing disparities. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | INSDECOMP / INSDMV | Functions have been updated to fill temporal gaps in a time series which caused the processes to fail. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | GREY2RGB | Function will now output metadata values to store the calculated INMIN and INMAX values. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | INSPSC / INSPSN | Automatic calibration point added to these functions to properly skip the calibration process if no external calibration points are available. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | INSRAW | Function has been improved to properly carry-out phase fitting across swath using a two-pass method. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | Workflow | INS* functions | All INS* functions have been modified to ensure that they are consistent in terms of: (1) output quantity, (2) units, and (3) unit of filter size. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | Utility | License Registration Manager | The CATALYST Professional License Registration tool has been redesigned, including the addition of automatic license generation. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | Utility | License Server | The RMS license server installer has been rebranded and updated and is now the CATALYST License Server. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | Job | Mosaic Generation | 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. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Enhancement | Job | Super Registration | Improvements were made in the matching to better handle large rapidly changing disparities. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Defect Fix | Function | SPECLASS | Fixed to work properly and use all appropriate bands for the ASTER sensor and the 16-band variety of Worldview-3 (WV3) data. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Defect Fix | Function | OEBUNDLEOPT | Fixed function, which was failing when trying to set options for a project created for RCM data. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | SPOT 6/7 | Fixed issues with SPOT 6/7 ORT products which were loading with an improper shift in Focus. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | Gaofen-7 (GF7) | Fixed the values of spatial resolution which were being set incorrectly for Gaofen-7 products. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | ICEYE | Fixed issue with display of raw ICEYE data which was being displayed opposite to the properly ingested data. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, ICEYE | Fixed defect that caused Focus to shutdown when trying to view the Incidence Angle array data for raw ICEYE imagery. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, WMTS Support | Fixed problems that were reported when trying to load certain web mapping tile services to the Focus interface. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Defect Fix | Job | Data Ingest and GCP Collection | Fixed issues running the Data Ingest and GCP Collection job on panchromatic (PAN) Pleiades data. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Defect Fix | Job | Spectral Classification | Fixed to work properly and use all appropriate bands for the ASTER sensor. This fix will also update other jobs that utilize the spectral classification process. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Defect Fix | Job | Spectral Classification | Fixed to work properly and use all appropriate bands for the 16-band variety of Worldview-3 data. This fix will also update other jobs that utilize the spectral classification process. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP2 (May 20, 2021) | Defect Fix | Job | Mosaic Generation | Repaired the cases where an extra line of NoData pixels is output during the running of the Mosaic Generation job. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | New | 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. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | New | Sensor | Khalifasat | Support added for RADIO and GEO products for this optical sensor which features 3m multi-spectral and 0.7m panchromatic data. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | New | Function | 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). | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | New | Function | INSMODVEL | Removes the estimated atmospheric effects from the velocity estimates generated by the INSDECOMP module. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | New | Capability | Super registration | Addition of highly accurate super-registration functionality as method for band co-registration prior to pan sharpening production. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | SPOTBLUE | Updated function with new, more scientifically accurate formula, simplified parameters, and added support for different input data types. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | INSCOREG | Cleaned up GCP reporting from co-registration process. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | INSRAW | Updated to properly process Sentinel-1 TOPSAR data. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | INSUNWRAP | Fixed metadata issues when swapping phases. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | BIT2PNT | Fixed issue with missing raster channel in output file, when trying to export to a vector layer. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Enhancement | Sensor | Sentinel-1 | Updated TOPSAR support to eliminate issues of phase boundaries being visible between bursts and swaths when assembling into a single scene. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Enhancement | Sensor | Skysat | Added support for updated Basic data format where metadata file is not in same directory as data files. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Enhancement | Job | Sprectral classification | Updated output class schema in sprectral classification documentation. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Enhancement | Documentation | Atmospheric Correction (ATCOR) | Help Documentation updated with details on how to properly prepare imagery for the atmospheric correction process. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Function | CHDETOP | Issue fixed that OPERTYPE parameter was ignored when ALGO parameter was set to INTENRATIO. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Documentation | DSMMERGE function | Updated Help Documentation to remove references to previously retired functionality. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Documentation | Python API | Updated Help Documentation to describe that functions should not be run when dataset is open. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Function | SPECLASS | RDoc updates. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Vector loading | Fixed issue of Focus hanging when trying to load E00 files. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Mosaic Tool, Preview Images | Fixed issue with preview image size growing following editing and saving the mosaic project. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | JPEG2000 | Fixed issue when exporting to JPEG2000 with the lossless option. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | SPOT 6 | Repaired location problem found with SPOT data downloaded from the Airbus OneAtlas platform. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | SPOT 1-3 | Fixed ground sample distance (GSD) issues in metadata for ingested multi-spectral and panchromatic datasets. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Job | DEM Index File Creator | Resolved an issue with DEM folder being specified as a file name. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Job | DEM Extraction ADS | Solved multiple issues with projection conversion and performance improvements. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Job | Pansharpening Production | Fixed poor alignment using POLY option, caused by blunder removal being ignored during processing. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | Pleiades | Repaired issues with duplicate files names withn ingesting Pleiades Level 1A data. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | Worldview-2 (WV2) | Fix error messages that arise with ingest errors. This fix would also effect other Worldview products. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP1 (March 17, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | Jilin-1 (JL1) | Fix to GCP Collection module which was created the wrong number of child jobs. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | Rebranding | CATALYST Professional | Geomatica has been rebranded to CATALYST Professional. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | Rebranding | CATALYST Enterprise | GXL has been rebranded to CATALYST Enterprise. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | Rebranding | License Requests | All license and support requests should now be sent to the following email address: support@catalyst.earth. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | New | Function | INSPSN | Performs phase unwrapping and generates a connected network of persistent scatterer candidates (PSCs). | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | New | Function | GREY2RGB | Conterts a single greyscale raster channel into a RGB image using a colormap. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | New | Capability | Focus, 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | New | Capability | Focus, New basemap area | Creates a new area pre-loaded with a user-defined basemap with the extents and projection set by that basemap dataset. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | New | Capability | Focus, 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | New | Capability | Focus, New basemap window | Opens a new viewer with a user-defined basemap pre-loaded and the currently selected map layers loaded on top. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | New | Capability | Automated Spectral Normalization | Satellite data collected pre-MODIS (before the year 2000) can now be corrected, due to the addition of functionality that automatically simulates surface NBAR measurements using MODIS time series models. (Note: also applies to the Spectral Normalization to MODIS job.) | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | GEOCODEDEM | Greater level of metadata information generated and exposed to be used by DSMMERGE and other downstream functions. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | DSMMERGE | Improvements to image quality by utilizing the most nadir imagery. This leads to crisper images with less distortion and straighter edges. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | Function | EPIPOLARDSM | Reduced maximum memory consumption by 50% and improved geometry calculations leading to a 25% faster DSM extraction for satellite data. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | Capability | Focus, Atmospheric Correction (ATCOR) | In Focus, the Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) Reflectance workflow has been updated to use the new, more accurate reflectance computation found in the DN2REFLECTANCE function. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | Projection | Datum support, NADCON 5.0 | 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. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | Job | Object Analyst Segmentation and Classification | Channel mapping parameter added to the job for use when input data does not include full radiometric metadata. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | Job | DEM Extraction | Updates to the underlying functions lead to the improvements in output image quality by utilizing the most nadir imagery. This leads to crisper images with less distortion and straighter edges. Reduced maximum memory consumption by 50% and improved geometry calculations leading to a 25% faster digital surface model (DSM) extraction for satellite data. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Enhancement | Job | Automated Geometric Correction | Logic added to not report CE90 accuracy values when the number of measurements is insufficient for an accurate assessment. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Defect Fix | Function | GEOCODEDEM | Issue fixed when running when MAPUNITS parameter is not specifically set. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Defect Fix | Function | ORTHO | Results in all CATALYST environments will now be equivalent. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Mosaicking | Improved performance when outputting results directly to TIFF files. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, WMTS support | Improved performance when accessing Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) layers in the Focus viewing environment. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | Sentinel-1 | Improved phase fitting both within the same swaths and across swaths. | Professional |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Defect Fix | Sensor | SPOT 4 | Fix to incorrect metadata which was preventing proper radiometric normalization of panchromatic data. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Defect Fix | Job | Tie-Point Collection and Refinement Aerial | Resolved an issue with intermediate files being deleted before the workflow completes. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Defect Fix | Capability | Mosaicking to TIFF | Performance improvements were made when mosaicking to a single-tile TIFF output. | Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Retirement | Data support | CentOS 7 Linux | Retired support for CentOS 7 Linux operating system. | Professional, Enterprise |
| CATALYST SP0 (Jan 28, 2021) | Retirement | Data support | Python 2.7 | Retired support for Python 2.7. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | 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. [In Professional only: A Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF can be created by using FEXPORT algorithm with an input file that has existing overviews.] | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | New | Utility | JPEG2000 compression for PCIDSK | Added support for “WAVE” JPEG2000 compression to the PCIDSK (PIX) format (all data types). The | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | New | 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | New | Function | BIT2PNT | A general purpose function for converting bitmap layers to point layers. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | New | Sensor | SAOCOM | Support for the L-Band SAOCOM sensors 1A (SLC) and 1B (GRD) for all acquisition modes. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | New | Workflow | Automated Geometric Correction (ARD Workflow) | This new Analysis Ready Data (ARD) workflow automates the geometric correction of the data from raw scenes. The workflow uses Super Registration to achieve geometric accuracies up to 1/10th of a pixel, meeting the strict requirements of ARD. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | New | Workflow | Automated Spectral Normalization (ARD Workflow) | This workflow spectrally normalizes orthorectified images to the MODIS MCD43A2 & MCD43A4 products. The resulting images have consistent spectral characteristics, making them suitable for use in multi-temporal analysis workflows. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | New | Workflow | ARD Data Packaging (ARD Workflow) | This workflow creates per-pixel quality data and generates a summary information quality report from ARD products. XML files are produced that help simplify the integration of the data with the Open Data Cube. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | New | Job | CARD4L-SR Metadata Preparation | Produces ISO 1995-2 compliant metadata files from ARD imagery, simplifying the integration of the data into the Open Data Cube and the CARD4L certification process. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | New | Job | Open Data Cube (ODC) Metadata Generation | Automatically create Open Data Cube index files, and optionally index and ingest ARD products into the ODC. This job requires users to have the ODC software installed as well. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | New | Data support | Python 3.6 | Support for Python 3.6. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Enhancement | Sensor | SPOT 1-5 | Scenes from SPOT 1-5 can now be used in the Topographic Normalization job, improving the spectral accuracy of SPOT products for ARD. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | Historical Airphoto Processing (HAP) reference data | Reference data support has been extended to include the use of indexed reference files in HAP projects. | |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | Exporting maps | Added support for exporting maps to PNG file format. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Enhancement | Job | GCP Collection | New and improved ground control refinement strategy to eliminate incorrect GCPs more reliably. This technique no longer relies on an arbitrary user-specified threshold to determine point removal, reducing the end-user expertise required to generate geometrically accurate data, and further increasing automation of ARD quality data. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Function | OACALCATT | Users can now specify channels to be used for calculating Vegetation Indices, reducing the reliance on metadata. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Function | SPECL | Results from SPECL in the Focus GUI now correctly display in pseudocolor by default, instead of grayscale. | |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Function | MOSPREP | Fixed an issue that was causing a crash during mosaic preparation when crossing UTM zones. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Function | INSUNWRAP | Fixed an issue where INSUNWARP would crash when large masks provided. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Projection | Australian Datum 2020 | Full support for GDA 2020 with TIF files. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Hyperspectral Spectra Plot | Fixed a crash when importing a spectral signatures file (.spl). | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | JPEG2000 | Resolved an issue causing the software to not respond for a few seconds when panning with large compressed images. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Mosaic Tool, Collection Viewer | Fixed a blend width WYSIWYG issue in the Mosaic Tool Collection Viewer. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Viewer pane | Fixed an intermittent crash when panning around images. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Clipping/Subsetting window | The Clipping/Subsetting window in Focus is now resizable. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Projection | UTM | Fixed issue with SuperView-1 imagery in the Southern Hemisphere not being projected correctly. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Sensor | Jilin-1 | Jilin-1 03B data are now compatible with the DN2REFLECTANCE algorithm. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Sensor | Kompsat-3A | Fixed an issue when trying to work with link files of Kompsat-3A. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Job | DEM Extraction Airphoto | Resolved an issue in FEPIPOLARCAND that was resulting in NoData values being introduced during DEM Extraction. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Job | Super Registration (Chinese) | Resolved path error causing the job to fail. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Utility | Linux, Remote data | Fixed crash when opening a HTTPS connection on Linux. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP4 (Dec 1, 2020) | Defect Fix | Utility | JPEG2000 | Fixed an issue when trying to create extremely large JPEG 2000 files. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | New | Function | OESETACC | Sets the accuracy values for TPs, GCPs, and exterior orientation (airphoto only) in OrthoEngine project files in a scripted environment such as python or EASI. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | New | Function | INSPSC | Processes a stack of co-registered SAR images to identify stable reflectors, PSCs (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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | New | Capability | WMTS support | Connect to external Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) servers to display read-only maps in Focus. Compliant with OGC Web Map Tile Service 1.0.0 specification. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | New | Capability | OrthoEngine, Point Precision export | Define the number of decimal places to be kept when exporting TP/GCP accuracy information from OrthoEngine. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | New | Sensor | Jilin-1 (JL1) 07b | Support added for Jilin-1 07b Level 1 datasets. Jilin-1 07b is an optical satellite featuring high resolution panchromatic, multispectral imagers. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | New | Job | TP Collection and Refinement Aerial | Scales up your aerial projects with camera self-calibration and 2-pass tie point (TP) collection enabling the quick generation of accurate results for datasets with no calibration report. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | New | Job | DEM Extraction Tri-Stereo | Generates a digital surface model (DSM) from tri-stereo satellite imagery. Automatically identify pairs, generate epipolar DSMs and reproject into a geocoded DSM. Optionally, the DSM can be converted into a bare-earth digital terrain model (DTM). | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | New | Platform | Python 3.6 on CentOS-8 | Added support for Python 3.6 on CentOS8 Linux distributions. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | DN2TOA / DN2REFLECTANCE | Replaced DN2TOA with DN2REFLECTANCE in the Atmospheric Correction (ATCOR) 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | SPECLASS | Reduction of false positive classifications, with particular improvements to reducing the over representation of the senescent vegetation class. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | APANSHARP | Improved pansharpening pre-processing by applying SUPERMATCH to improve the alignments of poorly co-registered MS and PAN bands before pansharpening. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | INSUNWRAP | Metadata tags added for successful unwrapping of ICEYE SLC data. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Enhancement | Sensor | ADS | Improved handling of Airborne Digital Sensor (ADS) imagery to reduce time of reading and writing operations. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Enhancement | Utility | Thread safe compression and decompression | Improves performance of reading and writing compressed data. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Enhancement | Utility | JPEG2000 optimization | Reading and rendering JP2 formatted data is now 3-4x faster than previous Geomatica releases. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Enhancement | Utility | ADS rendering | Improved rendering speed of Airborne Digital Sensor (ADS) imagery. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Enhancement | Job | Point Collection and Refinement | Improved coarse resolution outlier detection resulting in faster model convergence with higher quality. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Projection | State Plane | Improved support for State Plane coordinate systems. Added support for State Plane 1600 – Kentucky Single Zone. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Projection | Australian Datum GDA 2200 | Improved support for the Australian Datum GDA 2200. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Function | INSUNWRAP | Fixed the ability to unwrap sparsely populated interferograms. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Function | INSTOPO | Reduced number of artifacts once topographic phase is removed in areas of high elevation. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Function | MOSDEF | Changed data type of output resolution to double precision float for more accurate output resolution. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Function | SARINGEST | Fixed calibration of RCM descending pass data. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Function | INSUNWARP | INSUNWRAP (BURNMASK) no longer crashes when large vector files are used. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Sensor | Gaofen-3 (GF3) | Updated footprint of GF3 images in OrthoEngine. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, SAR Clipping/Subsetting | Focus Clipping/Subsetting 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Multiple channel selection | Fixed the selection of multiple channels ignoring the first selected channel in Algorithm Librarian & Modeler. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Mosaic Tool, WYSISWG display | Improved rendering of previews in mosaic tool with a blend width to properly show WYSISWG display. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Tiled images | When working with tiled images, .IMG files with pyramids now open correctly. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Object Analyst, Vector Layer and Field Selector window | The Object Analyst Vector Layer and Field Selector window in Focus can now be resized to display all fields. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | 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. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Manual Edit EO panel | Fixed a crash when loading the Manually Edit EO panel in OrthoEngine. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Model type | Fixed an error causing an endless loop when selecting an unlicensed model type during project creation. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Utility | ADS GCP auto-locate | Improved the auto-location coordinates for GCPs when multiple image windows are opened. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Job | Mosaic from Orthos | Corrected georeferencing in the Mosaic from Orthos job when creating GeoTIFF outputs. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP3 (Oct 6, 2020) | Defect Fix | Job | Mosaic Definition | Changed data type of output resolution to double precision float for more accurate output resolution. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | New | Sensor | ICEYE GRD | 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | New | Function | SUPERMATCH | Extracts 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | New | 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | New | Function | INSMLOOK | Multi-look phase unwrapping for InSAR imagery. Significantly reduces the time required to perform phase unwrapping without impact quality. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | New | Function | SVREGSETUP | Derives all parameters required for the spectral normalization process when a spectral image is provided. Important for multiple sensor support. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | New | Function | OAGTIMPORT | New algorithm for importing ground control points (GCPs) into an Object Analyst (OA) workflow. Enables one to fully script an OA workflow without using Focus. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | New | Capability | Mosaic Tool, Smart GeoFill | 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | New | Capability | API, Retrieve thumbnail images | Ability to retrieve thumbnails that come with native data distribution. Provides the ability to view image thumbnail without having to open the image in Focus | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | New | Job | Building Detection | Performs automatic object-based classification and change detection on large volumes of earth observation imagery. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | New | Job | Automatic Accuracy Map Creation | Compares orthorectified images against reference images to create offset maps with statistics for assessment. Gives the ability to assess whether the orthorectified images agree geometrically to the level of accuracy required for Analysis Ready Data | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | New | Job | Data Exploration | Explores data and make a selection based on user-specified criteria. Makes it easier to select and ingest data based on user criteria (e.g. select a cloud-free image to be processed top-tier dataset followed by lesser quality scenes) | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | New | Job | Image Partitioning | Reads the reference vector file and creates a subset vector file for each UTM zone, if the original vector covers multiple UTM zones. Important for large areas of interest. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | FBMTIE | Parallel processing to improve the speed of feature-based tie-point (TP) collection on multiple images using the FBMTIE function in Python. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | REPROJ | Added support for point spread function 2D kernels. Improves downsampling of imagery. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | SUPERMATCH | Updates to SUPERMATCH include: (1) Multiple small tile reference images can now be used as the reference, as opposed to a single file, (2) Positional accuracy (xy) is now stored in the metadata with the file, which makes the accuracy metrics more readily accessible, (3) Improvements to the error filtering capability, (4) Resolved issue with handling different projections, (5) Added CE90, CE95, RMSE accuracy metrics, and (6) Added multi-threaded processing to provide a performance boost. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | OrthoEngine, Epipolar pair generation | Parallel processing to improve the speed of generating a large batch of epipolar pairs in OrthoEngine. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | OrthoEngine, DEM extraction | Parallel processing to improve the speed of extracting DEMs from multiple pairs of stereo images in OrthoEngine. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | OrthoEngine, tie point (TP) collection | Parallel processing to improve the speed of collecting tie points on multiple images in OrthoEngine. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | Focus, Clipping/Subsetting | Added 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | Focus, Tiled sensor performance | Performance boost when zooming and panning around an image from a tiled sensor in the Focus viewer | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | Ortho on-the-fly performance | Ortho on-the-fly will use DEM overviews for faster rendering of images. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | Focus, Swath Selector GUI | Improve interface when opening rasters with sub-datasets (i.e. swaths) in Focus. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | Linux, GUI Library | Upgrade SGL library to use GTK3 instead of GTK2 on Linux. Better user-experience by using more modern and standard library. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Job | Orthorectification | Exposed tile alignment parameters. the image data will only be resampled once during orthorectification (instead of multiple times) which helps preserve the spectral integrity of the image. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Job | Data Ingest | Output from Data Exploration can be used as input for Data Ingest. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Job | Mosaic Preparation | Added the ability to not enforce color balancing. Permits the user to create a mosaic while preserving the spectral integrity of the pixels. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Job | GCP Collection | (1) Ground control points (GCPs) collected on multiple reference tiles will be stored in a single segment in the raw/uncorrected scene. Reduces the number of GCP segments created and permits tiled mosaic files to be used as a reference, and (2) Added ability to select the proper reference tile based on the boundary and pixel resolution. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Job | Spectral Normalization to MODIS | (1) Integrated SVREGSETUP into the workflow. This automatically derives all the necessary parameters for the spectral normalization process, (2) Statistical accuracy report formatting was improved for readability and interpretation, and (3) Added ability to synthesize blue band for SPOT 1-5 sensors. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Job | Super Registration | Added support for multiple reference tiles. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Job | Multi-Resolution Reference Image Preparation | Integrated Point Spread Function for improved resampling. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Job | GCP Reference Imagery Preparation | Number of improvements to the module, added option to copy folder structure, add pixel resolution to vector index, fixed some minor issues, option added to create standalone PIX files instead of link files. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Enhancement | Documentation | CentOS 8 installation | Updated install guides for CentOS 8. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Mosaic Tool, Edge-dodging points | Fixed an issue that was causing the Mosaic Tool to crash when editing an edge dodging point on image with no bundle colour balancing. | Professional, Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Modeler, New categories | Fixed an issues that was causing Modeler to crash when creating new categories. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Output channel descriptions | Ortho-generation will no longer change the output channel descriptions in OrthoEngine. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Projection | Australian Datum GDA2020 | The Australian Datum GDA2020 is now properly supported. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Two-pass tie points (TPs) | Fixed an issue causing OrthoEngine to crash when running two-pass tie points (TPs). | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | OrthoEngine, Exterior orientation | Fixed issue causing incorrect exterior orientation height calculations in OrthoEngine. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Data | SRTM HGT | All SRTM HGT are now georeferenced. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Function | GCPPRUNE | GCPPRUNE function now has proper error handling to manage corrupted segments. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Histograms | Fixed an issue in Focus when drawing histograms. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Reproject GUI | The Reproject GUI is now resizable. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | Focus, Data Merge | Data Merge now works with Foot projection. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Job | Data Ingest | A fix to Data Ingest SAR module preventing incorrect ingestion of SAR imagery. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP2 (Aug 5, 2020) | Defect Fix | Capability | MS and PAN pairs for multiple modules and sensors | Fixed issue to automatically find MS and PAN pairs for multiple modules and sensors. This resulted in unexpected incorrect results or failures. | Enterprise |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | New | Platform | CentOS 8 | Added full support for Red Hat’s CENTOS 8 Linux operating system distribution. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | New | 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 | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | New | Function | MIRROR | Mirrors images along the vertical or horizontal axes, maintaining the location of ground control points (GCPs) in the process. MIRROR can be applied to airborne radar or multispectral (MS) data, enabling the inversion of descending images to ascending images, or to convert left-looking imagery to right-looking imagery. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | New | 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 by Breiman (2001). | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | New | 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 by Breiman (2001). | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | New | Function | SELFCAL | Refines tie points (TPs) and ground control points (GCPs) with camera self-calibration. Note: Camera self-calibration is required when no external orientation camera calibration has been provided, or if the provided external camera calibration is not accurate. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | New | Function | SVSPLREG | Uses 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | New | Function | TIEIMAGE | Find tie points (TPs) and, optionally, ground control points (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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | New | Function | VDISSOLVE | Automatically dissolves 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | New | Sensor | ICEYE | Support added for ICEYE SLC datasets. ICEYE is a SAR Satellite constellation capable of reliably imaging the entire Earth every 1-3 hours | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | New | Sensor | Orbita | Support added for Orbita 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 | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | Object Analyst, Progress monitoring | Improved progress monitor for classification processes. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | Object Analyst, Colour consistency | Better consistency of colours throughout the Object Analyst (OA) process. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | Focus, UI/UX | Upgraded treelist look & feel, including better drag & drop capabilities when adding files to the FILES tab. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | Spectra Reflectance Plot | Improved support for uncalibrated data in the Spectra Reflectance Plot, including the update of target metadata using underlying reflectance datasets for comparison. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | DEM Extraction | Addition of DSM merge colour balancing methodology for digital/UAV aerial projects. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Capability | OrthoEngine data import | When adding data files to an OrthoEngine project, an option now enables the system to recursively add all files within a directory. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | AUTOTIE/AUTOTIEADS/AUTOGCP/AUTOCHIP | Upgrade performance of FFTP matching by integrating code across functions | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | CRPROJ | Automatically read the camera name, focal length and chip size directly from input metadata tags | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | FBMTIE | Reduced occurrence of blunders by 90% and improved speed of TP collection. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | GEOCODEDEM | Improvements to sharpness of output using better resampling methodology. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | INSCOREG | Improvements to the Terrain Observation by Progressive Scans (TOPS) deramping and demodulating steps in the coregistration process. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | OASVMTRAIN | Improved speed and accuracy by reading attributes directly as the double data type. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | ORTHO | Modification of EDGECLIP parameter to support clipping before (raw imagery) or after orthorectification process. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | POLY2RAS | Support added for using string attributes, which makes is easier to convert a classified vector from Object Analyst to a raster. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | PNTRFN | Faster and more efficient collection of tie points, improving rate of block bundle model convergence. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Function | REPROJ | Added support for additional resampling methods: Lagrange interpolation, gaussian resampling, sin based resampling and complex SAR resampling. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Sensor | 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. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Sensor | PALSAR-2 | Full support for the RADARSAT Constellation Mission GeoCoded Detected or Complex products. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP1 (June 9, 2020) | Enhancement | Sensor | Sentinel-1 | Metadata updates to help improve the overall InSAR process for Terrain Observation by Progressive Scans (TOPS) data. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | New | Sensor | Kanopus-V | Earth observation minisatellite mission of the Russian Space Agency, Roskosmos and ROSHYDROMET/Planeta. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | New | Sensor | Gaofen-6 (GF6) | Geostationary, Earth-observation satellite in the Gaofen series of Chinese civilian remote-sensing satellites. The satellite is similar to the Gaofen-1 satellite launched in 2013, but with upgraded capabilities, including a 2-meter resolution panchromatic camera, an 8-meter multispectral imager, and a 16-meter multispectral wide-angle colour camera. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | New | Sensor | PAZ | X-band SAR spacecraft based on the TerraSAR-X platform to serve security and defense. The PAZ mission is dual-use (civil/defense) funded and owned by the Ministry of Defense and managed by Hisdesat (Hisdesat Servicios Estratégicos, S.A., a Spanish private communications company. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | New | Sensor | Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) | RCM is a constellation of three C-band synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellites. These satellites support a wide variety of imaging modes. The modes range from wide-area surveillance with 500-kilometer imaging swaths to spotlight modes with resolution of 1 meter in azimuth and 3 meters in range. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | New | Sensor | Gaofen-3 (GF3) | The first C- band high-resolution SAR satellite, capable of providing Earth images up to 1-meter resolution (with 10-kilometer ground swath). The GF3 SAR package can operate in 12 different working modes, from high-resolution (1 m) to large-swath (650 km), and from maritime imaging to combined land and water imaging. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | New | Function | DILATEBIT | Performs morphological operations (i.e. dilation and erosion) on a bitmap layer and, optionally, fill unmasked areas, remove masked areas, or both. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | New | Function | MANAGEDATASET | Manages datasets: copy, delete, rename, move, or list files of the set. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | New | Function | SPECLINCMB | Performs a spectral linear combination of image channels using coefficients the user specifies. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Sensor | RADARSAT-2 | Single NITF file format. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Sensor | Sentinel-1 | Support for Terrain Observation by Progressive Scans (TOPS) mode. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Sensor | SPOT 1-4 | CAP format support for SPOT 1-4. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Function | OASEG | Automatically segments an optical image based on the scale, shape, and compactness parameters you specify. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Function | OASEGSAR | Automatically segments a SAR image based on the scale, shape, and compactness parameters you specify; can also perform filtering and tail trimming. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Function | OACALCATT | Automatically calculates attributes, including presets for vegetation indices, texture, geometrical, and more (suitable for optical imagery). | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Function | OACALCATTSAR | Automatically calculates attributes, including presets for polarimetric decompositions, texture, geometrical, and more (suitable for SAR imagery). | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Function | OAFLDNMEXP | Automatically exports training-class information, which can be used by training and classification algorithms. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Function | OASVMTRAIN | Creates an output Support Vector Machine (SVM) hyperplane file (training model) from a set of training sites and object attributes). | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Function | OASVMCLASS | Classifies objects using the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm with the specified model. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Function | FBMEXRACT | Extracts features and descriptors from images for feature-based matching. The extracted features are written to a feature database (FDB) file for use as input with the FBMTIE algorithm. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Function | FBMTIE | Performs feature-based matching to collect tie points (TPs). The features are read from feature database (FDB) files created by the FBMEXTRACT algorithm. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Function | FBMIMPORT | Creates an OrthoEngine project file from the text file of collected tie points (TPs) created by running FBMTIE. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Function | GENAPEO | Calculates the exterior orientation (EO) of each photo in an OrthoEngine project file based on the x, y, and z position of the first and last photo of each flight line. | Professional |
| Geomatica Banff SP0 (Nov 26, 2019) | Enhancement | Function | PNTREFN | Refines tie points (TPs) and ground control points (GCP) in an OrthoEngine project file. | Professional |
CATALYST Professional
Last Updated: September 24, 2021
Upcoming Feature Removal and Deprecations
Linux OS
With the impending end-of-life for CENTOS Linux operating systems, CATALYST will be changing the supported Linux OS in early 2022.
If you are a Linux user and would like to request support for a specific variety of Linux, please contact our support team using the following Email:
support@catalyst.earth
Release Notes
Version 2222.0.4
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.
We are working with our licensing provider to resolve this.
If you have a standalone dongle and require the CATALYST Professional Python API please contact support@catalyst.earth for assistance.
New
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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.
We are working with our licensing provider to resolve this.
If you have a standalone dongle and require the CATALYST Professional Python API please contact support@catalyst.earth for assistance.
New
- 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
- Sensor | Capella:
Capella aims to provide the most frequent, timely and high-quality SAR imagery products available. Support has been added for the X-Band Capella data for both single look complex (SLC) and geocoded terrain corrected (GEO) products.
| Mode | Swath width (km) | GSD Resolution (m) | Polarization |
| Spot | 5 x 5 | 0.5 | HH |
| Site | 5 x 10 | 1.0 | HH |
| Strip | 5 x 20 | 1.2 | HH |
NOTE: Site SLC is currently not supported.
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.
We are working with our licensing provider to resolve this.
If you have a standalone dongle and require the CATALYST Professional Python API please contact support@catalyst.earth for assistance.
New
- 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
- 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. The phase characteristics of the stable targets are used to estimate the signal noise due to atmospheric effects and decorrelation. Removal of the signal noise results in a significant improvement in the ability to monitor surface movement and gain detailed insight into land deformation processes.
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.
We are working with our licensing provider to resolve this.
If you have a standalone dongle and require the CATALYST Professional Python API please contact support@catalyst.earth for assistance.
New
- 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
- Rebranding | CATALYST Professional: Geomatica has been rebranded to CATALYST Professional. For more information visit our website
- Rebranding | License Requests: All license and support requests should now be sent to the following Email: support@catalyst.earth.
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.
We are working with our licensing provider to resolve this.
If you have a standalone dongle and require the Catalyst Professional Python API please contact support@catalyst.earth for assistance.
New
- 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
CATALYST Enterprise
Last Updated: September 24, 2021
Upcoming Feature Removal and Deprecations
Linux OS
With the impending end-of-life for CENTOS Linux operating systems, CATALYST will be changing the supported Linux OS in early 2022.
If you are a Linux user and would like to request support for a specific variety of Linux, please contact our support team using the following Email:
support@catalyst.earth
Release Notes
Version 2222.0.4
New
- 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
- Job | Orthorectification: Unused code removed which caused footprint status information to be reported even when no footprints were generated.
- Job | Aerial GCP Collection: Default collection method is not set to be one-pass fine method, as previous default two-pass method would not work correctly due to the lack of RPC information.
Fixes
- Capability | Using Mask parameters: Fixed reported issues with jobs failing when using mask information. This was reported when using the Super Registration job, but the fix applies to other jobs where masks are used as well.
- Documentation | Image Scaling: Updated the documentation to include correct help for the tail trimming parameter.
- Job | Orthorectification: Improper naming issue for pan-sharpening(PSH) imagery corrected. System no longer names PSH imagery as panchromatic(PAN)
- Job | DEM Extraction: Fixed error for ADS DEM Extraction where child jobs were being immediately killed by the processing server.
- Job | Data Ingest: Fixed reported issue where the job intermittently crashed when using SPOT-6 data.
- Sensor | ALOS AVNIR: Fixed reported defect where ALOS AVNIR imagery was not being ingested properly in Data Ingest job.
- Sensor | ADS: Fixed ingest problem with projection when trying to ingest ADS level 2 imagery.
Version 2222.0.3
New
Sensor | Landsat-8: Support added for Landsat-8 Collection 1, Level 2 data to the Data Ingest module.
Updated
- Job | Mosaic Preparation: Void file that is created as part of the preparation process is now being kept and can be used for investigating problem areas in output mosaic results.
Fixes
- Documentation | ODC Metadata Generation: Repaired improper help link.
- Job | Mosaic Preparation: Fixed error and warning messages that were generated when cutline constraint file cannot be found by the system.
Version 2222.0.2
New
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Sensor | Capella: Capella aims to provide the most frequent, timely and high-quality SAR imagery products available. Support has been added for the X-Band Capella data for both single look complex (SLC) and geocoded terrain corrected (GEO) products.
|
Mode |
Swath width (km) |
GSD Resolution (m) |
Polarization |
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Spot |
5 x 5 |
0.5 |
HH |
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Site |
5 x 10 |
1.0 |
HH |
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Strip |
5 x 20 |
1.2 |
HH |
NOTE: Site SLC is currently not supported.
- Sensor | Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM): RCM support added to the Data Ingest SAR module.
Updated
- Job | Mosaic Generation: 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.
- Job | Super Registration: Improvements were made in the matching to better handle large rapidly changing disparities.
- Utility | License Server: The RMS license server installer has been rebranded and updated and is now the CATALYST License Server.
Fixes
- Job | Data Ingest and GCP Collection: Fixed issues running the job on panchromatic Pleiades data.
- Job | Spectral Classification: Fixed to work properly and use all appropriate bands for the ASTER sensor. This fix will also update other jobs that utilize the spectral classification process.
- Job | Spectral Classification: Fixed to work properly and use all appropriate bands for the 16-band variety of Worldview-3 data. This fix will also update other jobs that utilize the spectral classification process.
- Job | Mosaic Generation: Repaired the cases where an extra line of NoData pixels is output during the running of the Mosaic Generation job.
- Sensor | Gaofen-7 (GF7): Fixed the values of spatial resolution which were being set incorrectly for Gaofen-7 products.
Version 2222.0.1
New
- Pan Sharpening Production: Addition of highly accurate super-registration functionality as method for band co-registration prior to pan sharpening
- 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.
Updated
- Sensor | Skysat: Added support for updated Basic data format where metadata file is not in same directory as data files.
- Job | Spectral Classification: Updated output class schema in documentation.
Fixes
- Job | DEM Index File Creator: Resolved an issue with DEM folder being specified as a file name.
- Job | DEM Extraction ADS: Solved multiple issues with projection conversion and performance improvements.
- Job | Pansharpening Production: Fixed poor alignment using POLY option, caused by blunder removal being ignored during processing.
- Sensor | Pleiades: Repaired issues with duplicate files names withn ingesting Pleiades level 1A data.
- Sensor | SPOT 6: Repaired location problem found with SPOT data downloaded from the Airbus OneAtlas platform.
- Sensor | Worldview-2 (WV2): Fix error messages that arise with ingest errors. This fix would also effect other Worldview products.
- Sensor | Jilin-1 (JL1): Fix to GCP Collection module which was created the wrong number of child jobs.
Version 2222.0.0
Highlights
- Rebranding | CATALYST Enterprise: GXL has been rebranded to CATALYST Enterprise. For more information visit our website.
- Rebranding | Support: All support requests should now be sent to the following Email: support@catalyst.earth.
New
- Capability | Automated Spectral Normalization: Satellite data collected pre-MODIS (before the year 2000) can now be corrected, due to the addition of functionality that automatically simulates surface NBAR measurements using MODIS time series models. (Note: also applies to the Spectral Normalization to MODIS job)
- Projection | Datum: 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.
Updated
- Job | Object Analyst Segmentation and Classification: Channel mapping parameter added to the job for use when input data does not include full radiometric metadata.
- Job | DEM Extraction: Updates to the underlying functions lead to the improvements in output image quality by utilizing the most nadir imagery. This leads to crisper images with less distortion and straighter edges.
- Job | DEM Extraction: Reduced maximum memory consumption by 50% and improved geometry calculations leading to a 25% faster DSM extraction for satellite data.
- Job | Automated Geometric Correction: Logic added to not report CE90 accuracy values when the number of measurements is insufficient for an accurate assessment.
Fixes
- Job | Tie-Point Collection and Refinement Aerial: Resolved an issue with intermediate files being deleted before the workflow completes.
- Capability | Mosaicking to TIFF: Performance improvements were made when mosaicking to a single-tile TIFF output.
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
Highlights
- Analysis Ready Data | Workflows: Three new Workflows designed to automatically generate and prepare Analysis Ready Data have been added to this release. These workflows provide users with an automated and robust data processing pipeline to create and package ARD products for analysis.
New
- Workflow | Automated Geometric Correction (ARD Workflow): This new Analysis Ready Data (ARD) workflow automates the geometric correction of the data from raw scenes. The workflow uses Super Registration to achieve geometric accuracies up to 1/10th of a pixel, meeting the strict requirements of ARD.
- Workflow | Automated Spectral Normalization (ARD Workflow): This workflow spectrally normalizes orthorectified images to the MODIS MCD43A2 & MCD43A4 products. The resulting images have consistent spectral characteristics, making them suitable for use in multi-temporal analysis workflows.
- Workflow | ARD Data Packaging (ARD Workflow): This workflow creates per-pixel quality data and generates a summary information quality report from ARD products. XML files are produced that help simplify the integration of the data with the Open Data Cube.
- Job | CARD4L-SR Metadata Preparation: Produce ISO 1995-2 compliant metadata files from ARD imagery, simplifying the integration of the data into the Open Data Cube and the CARD4L certification process.
- Job | Open Data Cube (ODC) Metadata Generation: Automatically create Open Data Cube index files, and optionally index and ingest ARD products into the ODC. This job requires users to have the ODC software installed as well.
- 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.
- 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.
Updated
- Python: Support for Python 3.6.
- Job | GCP Collection: New and improved ground control refinement strategy to eliminate incorrect GCPs more reliably. This technique no longer relies on an arbitrary user-specified threshold to determine point removal, reducing the end-user expertise required to generate geometrically accurate data, and further increasing automation of ARD quality data.
- Sensor | SPOT 1-5: Scenes from SPOT 1-5 can now be used in the Topographic Normalization job, improving the spectral accuracy of SPOT products for ARD.
- 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.
- 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.
Fixes
- Projection | Australian Datum 2020: Full support for GDA 2020 with TIF files.
- Job | DEM Extraction Airphoto: Resolved an issue in FEPIPOLARCAND that was resulting in NoData values being introduced during DEM Extraction.
- Job | Super Registration (Chinese): Resolved path error causing the job to fail
- Function | MOSPREP: Fixed an issue that was causing a crash during mosaic preparation when crossing UTM zones.
- Projection| UTM: Fixed issue with SuperView-1 imagery in the Southern Hemisphere not being projected correctly.
New
- Job | TP Collection and Refinement Aerial: Scale up your aerial projects with camera self-calibration and 2-pass point collection enabling the quick generation of accurate results for datasets with no calibration report.
- Job | DEM Extraction Tri-Stereo: Generate a digital surface model (DSM) from tri-stereo satellite imagery. Automatically identify pairs, generate epipolar DSMs and reproject into a geocoded DSM. Optionally, the DSM can be converted into a bare-earth digital terrain model (DTM).
- Sensor Support | Jilin-1 07b: Support added for Level 1 datasets. Jilin-1 07b is an optical satellite for high resolution panchromatic, multispectral, night-time-lights images and staring video.
- Platform | Python 3.6 support CentOS8: Added support for python 3.6 on CentOS8 Linux distributions.
Updated
- 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.
- Function | SPECLASS: Reduction in false classifications across all classes, with significant improvement to the senescent vegetation class.
- Job | Point Collection and Refinement: Improved coarse resolution outlier detection resulting in faster model convergence with higher quality.
- Utility | ADS utility: Improved rendering speed of ADS imagery.
- Utility | JPEG2000 Optimization: Reading and rendering JP2 formatted data is now 3-4x faster than previous releases.
- Utility | Threadsafe Compression and Decompression: Improves performance of reading and writing compressed data.
- Sensor | ADS: Improved handling of ADS imagery to reduce time of reading and writing operations.
Fixes
- Job | Mosaic from Orthos: Corrected georeferencing in the Mosaic from Orthos job when creating GeoTIFF outputs.
- Job | Mosaic Definition: 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.
- Projection | State Plane 1600: Added support for State Plane 1600 – Kentucky Single Zone
- 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 | MOSDEF: Changed data type of output resolution to double precision float for more accurate output resolution.
New
- Job | Building Detection: Perform automatic object-based classification and change detection on large volumes of earth observation imagery.
- Job | Automatic Accuracy Map Creation: Compares orthorectified images against reference images to create offset maps with statistics for assessment. Gives the ability to assess whether the orthorectified images agree geometrically to the level of accuracy required for Analysis Ready Data
- Job | Data Exploration: Explore data and make a selection based on user-specified criteria. Makes it easier to select and ingest data based on user criteria (e.g. select a cloud-free image to be processed top-tier dataset followed by lesser quality scenes)
- Job | Image Partitioning: Reads the reference vector file and creates a subset vector file for each UTM zone, if the original vector covers multiple UTM zones. Important for large areas of interest.
- Function | SVREGSETUP: Used to derive all parameters required for the spectral normalization process, given a spectral image. Important for multiple sensor support.
- API | Retrieve thumbnail images: Ability to retrieve thumbnails that come with native data distribution. Provides the ability to view image thumbnail without having to open the image in Focus
Updated
- Job | Data Transformation: Support added for Point Spread Function 2D kernels. Improved image downsampling
- Function | SUPERMATCH: Multiple small tile reference images can now be used as the reference, as opposed to a single file.
- Function | SUPERMATCH: Positional accuracy (xy) is now stored in the metadata with the file. This makes the accuracy metrics much more readily accessible.
- Function | SUPERMATCH: Improvements to the error filtering capability.
- Function | SUPERMATCH: Resolved issue with handling different projections.
- Function | SUPERMATCH: Added CE90, CE95, RMSE accuracy metrics.
- Function | SUPERMATCH: Added multi-threaded processing to provide a performance boost
- Job | Orthorectification: Exposed tile alignment parameters. the image data will only be resampled once during orthorectification (instead of multiple times) which helps preserve the spectral integrity of the image
- Job | Data Ingest: Output from data exploration can be used as input for data ingest.
- Job | Mosaic Preparation: Added the ability to not enforce color balancing. Permits the user to create a mosaic while preserving the spectral integrity of the pixels
- Job | GCP Collection: GCPs collected on multiple reference tiles will be stored in a single segment in the raw/uncorrected scene. Reduces the number of GCP segments created and permits tiled mosaic files to be used as a reference
- Job | GCP Collection: Added ability to select the proper reference tile based on the boundary and pixel resolution.
- Job | Spectral Normalization to MODIS: Integrated SVREGSETUP into the workflow. This automatically derives all the necessary parameters for the spectral normalization process
- Job | Spectral Normalization to MODIS: Statistical accuracy report formatting was improved for readability and interpretation.
- Job | Spectral Normalization to MODIS: Added ability to synthesize blue band for SPOT 1-5 sensors.
- Job | Super Registration: Added support for multiple reference tiles
- Job | Multi-Resolution Reference Image Preparation: Integrated Point Spread Function for improved resampling
- Job | GCP Reference Imagery Preparation: Number of improvements to the module, added option to copy folder structure, add pixel resolution to vector index, fixed some minor issues, option added to create standalone PIX files instead of link files.
Fixes
- Fixed issue to automatically find MS and PAN pairs for multiple modules and sensors. This resulted in unexpected incorrect results or failures
- Fixed an issue that was causing the Mosaic Tool to crash when editing an edge dodging point on the image with no bundle color balancing
- A fix to Data Ingest SAR module preventing incorrect ingestion of SAR imagery
