CATALYST has developed new, high-speed, orthorectification functions. The code takes advantage of modern, multi-core processor architecture, as well as NVIDIA’s Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), to process standard data products from the WorldView-1, QuickBird and IKONOS satellites. Download PDF Results: Even with no GPUs on board, the system can process 1.75 TB per day as a …
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New computational environments are emerging – cloud computing which promises to provide vast computational resources on demand. Many corporations are moving to such environments to better share resources between compute intensive applications, to provide for surges in demand and reduce overall cost of ownership. Over time larger customers will demand applications running in these environments. …
This report details the performance of the new DEM extraction application for the CATALYST Enterprise system. The main logic of the application is based on the code in “genautodem.cpp”, which contains thecore functionality of the DEM extraction for the PPF AutoDEM. Besides improving the speedperformance, the program logic of the new DEM extraction has been …
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This article describes how high resolution satellite data can be used to extract accurate digital elevation model (DEM) for a mining application in the Amazon region. The resulting vertical accuracy can be within RMS error of 1.5m when using a minimum number of ground control points. Download PDF
