1. PHOTOMOD. Future outlook Aleksey Elizarov Head of Software Development Department, Racurs October 2014, Hainan, China From Imagery to Map: Digital Photogrammetric Technologies 14 th International Scientific and Technical Conference From Imagery to Map: Digital Photogrammetric Technologies

2. 2 PHOTOMOD History Version 1.3‏Single stereopair processing (1994)Central projection images Version 2.0Tens, hundreds of images (1999)Block aerotriangulation Version 3.0Hundreds of images (2001)Pushbroom satellite images processing Semiautomatic interior orientation Version 3.5Distributed network storage system (2003) Version 4.0Thousands of images (2006)Fully automatic tie points measurements Version 5.0Tens thousands of images (2009)Any number of color channels in images Support of GPGPU computing 3D modeling Conveyor SOne-button solution for orthophoto creation (2012)for satellite imagery on supercomputers Version 6.0Special solution for UAS processing (2014)Dense DSM creation Full x64 architecture support

3. 3 Current Photogrammetry Trends Larger image overlap, more multiimage Oblique imagery UAS Growing data volumes Higher precision of on-board georeferencing 3D modeling

4. 4 Current Hardware Trends No significant advances in processor clock rate ~ 3 GHz More parallelized architectures CPU (Intel Xeon Phi) GPU (NVIDIA Tesla) Computing clusters Hundreds of computing threads Higher data storage volumes ≥ 6 TB per disk Higher data storage speed ≥100 MB/sec per disk (HDD) ≥500 MB/sec per disk, zero access time (SSD) Higher network transfer rates

5. 5 Current Software Services Trends Remote software access Clouds solutions Software as a Service

6. 6 PHOTOMOD: Keeping Step with Technologies Support of all coming satellite data UAS data support Support of all existing georeferencing data Support of high performance hardware architectures Extending parallel computing on CPU Extending parallel computing on GPGPU Extending parallel computing on computer clusters Integration with web GIS services Using web GIS services as sources of imagery Using web GIS services as sources of georeference data Placing output products on the web New licensing and software access schemes

7. PHOTOMOD: Automated Georeferencing 7 Implemented Usage of on-board georeferencing In progress Automatic GCPs recognition Detect points with known (X, Y, Z) coordinates on source images by using existing orthophotos Future plans Automatic referencing to any data: orthophotos + height data vector maps georeferenced (adjusted) imagery

8. PHOTOMOD: One-Button Solutions 8 Implemented In progress Conveyor S-DTM: one-button solution for DTM and DSM creation for satellite pushbroom imagery Conveyor A: one-button solution for orthophoto creation for aerial imagery Future plans One-button solution for all output products for any input data Conveyor S: one-button solution for orthophoto creation for satellite pushbroom imagery

9. 9 PHOTOMOD: Automatic vectorization Implemented Vectorization patterns In progress Automatic 3D vectorization tools User selects a pattern and a search area Future plans Automatic 3D vectorization Automatic 3D classification User selects only object classes to recognize

10. PHOTOMOD: Realistic 3D Models 10 Implemented In progress Automatic texturing by any georeferenced image Usage of orthophotos, oblique and close-range imagery Future plans One-button solution for 3D model creation Automatic DSM creation Automatic model creation from 3D vectors Automatic texturing by orthophoto

11. PHOTOMOD: Localization 11 Implemented In progress Greek Future plans English Russian Spanish Chinese More languages…

12. 12 PHOTOMOD: Further Development Special processing of oblique imagery Adopting computer vision algorithms Image matching 3D model creation Object extraction Classification New error assessment tools

13. PHOTOMOD: Development Goals 13 Exact Reliable Flexible Automatic Fast User friendly The PHOTOMOD system tends to be:

14. 14 Thank you for attention!