This week Trimble introduced two new aerial products at the Photogrammetric Week (Phowo) in Stuttgart: the 80 megapixel Trimble Aerial Camera (TAC 80MP) and the Inpho 5.4 Software Suite. For those not at the Phowo this week, like me, here are the details:
Trimble Aerial Camera (TAC 80MP)
With advanced features such as Trimble’s forward motion compensation (FMC) technology, the TAC 80MP allows aerial service providers to fly faster or increase ground sampling distance. This enables fixed wing aircraft to deliver results previously only achievable with helicopter campaigns. With a weight of less than 3,000 grams (6.6 lbs.), the TAC80MP is also an ideal camera for a variety of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), further extending its application range.
Designed as a workhorse for traditional flight campaigns, the TAC 80MP is a suitable replacement for aging large-format analog cameras (LFC), which are increasingly being taken out of service. Because the long side of the TAC 80MP sensor is equal to an analog LFC image scanned at 20µm, service providers are able to fly the TAC 80MP instead of allocating additional resources to their digital large-format fleet.
As with previous Trimble Aerial Cameras, the 80MP is offered with a wide range of focal length optics, allowing for dynamic reconfigurations to accommodate changing project parameters.
As part of Trimble’s aerial mapping portfolio, the TAC80 MP can be bundled with Inpho photogrammetry software or integrated into a turn-key mapping solution including flight management, direct georeferencing, laser scanning capabilities, and complete processing workflow (Trimble DSS and Trimble Harrier 68i). Integration can be achieved through an upgrade path, allowing service providers to protect their investment and increase their capabilities as their business requirements expand.
Inpho 5.4 Software Suite
The latest Inpho software release significantly improves the quality of point clouds created solely from aerial images using image matching, achieving a density of up to one point per pixel. This method provides very dense, accurate and complete digital terrain models suitable for true orthophoto production and automatic feature extraction, offering a cost-effective alternative to laser scanning.
Inpho 5.4 also achieves performance improvements through the introduction of parallel processing along with new filtering and tiling strategies for point clouds. As a result, orthophoto generation, image adjustment, global tilting, seam line detection and ortho-mosaicking significantly outperform earlier versions. In addition, the version includes new graphical analysis, point cloud viewing and interactive image enhancement tools designed to enrich data visualization and manipulation for large projects.
Source: Trimble Newsletter
other interesting articles:
- Webinar: Trimble Aerial Camera (TAC 80MP) – 21SEP2011
- Webinar: Inpho 5.4 – An Image Worth a Million Points – 22SEP2011
- Trimble announced new Aerial Camera (TAC 80MP) and inpho 5.4
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