April 2006 | SOCET SET | Software update
SOCET SET v5.3 Released April 7, 2006
BAE Systems is pleased to announce the release of SOCET SET v5.3. This new release provides additional sensor models and new features based on automatic tie-point measurement for multi-sensor triangulation. Productivity improvements have been made throughout the SOCET SET workflow, including enhancements to SOCET for ArcGIS, Sketch, Feature Extraction, Mosaic and more. Automatic Terrain Extraction (ATE) has been improved with enhancements for bare-earth and reflected surface processing using back-matching and multi-pair matching.
If your production workflow includes significant mosaic operations, be sure to check out SOCET SET v5.3. Parallel processing improvements in this area are showing large gains in productivity running on a dual processor machine. Outlined below is a list of improvements and new features included in SOCET SET v5.3.
- Improvements to Terrain Extraction for increased productivity, accuracy and blunder elimination. The data structure for both TIN and Grid terrain is now capable of handling billions of points, including LIDAR point clouds. The Automatic Terrain Extraction improvements reduce manual editing for all terrain types. These improvements allow for increased productivity with workflows requiring terrain. In addition, the ATE improvements are relevant to both terrain surface models as well as reflected surface models.
- Based on customer feedback, enhancements were added to the SOCET for ArcGIS product, which was introduced in the SOCET SET v5.2 release. Improvements include compatibility of grouped layers in the ArcMap® table of contents with SOCET SET display and collection; new snapping agent integrated with ArcMap; the addition of accelerator key mapping for commonly used SOCET for ArcGIS commands; rotation and zoom to extent of ArcMap display to match the SOCET SET Viewport and support and population of subtype attributes from ArcGIS.
- Orthomosaic enhancements provide a new pixel void fill that prevents non-image data (usually black pixels) from being included in an orthomosaic. Multiple input images allow the process to sort through overlapping pixels to determine image vs. non-image pixels.
- Product improvements for ClearFlite include the ICAO PANS-OPS surface for compliance with international standards for mapping airport obstructions.
- OrbView-3 BASIC Imagery with ephemeris can now be imported and triangulated in SOCET SET with the advanced sensor models. Rigorous modeling is used throughout the workflow for accurate mensuration and product generation using OrbView-3 imagery.
For more information on SOCET SET v5.3: http://www.baesystems.com/gxp.
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