The Swedish metrology and geospatial software company HEXAGON enables users to efficiently process, manage, and utilize large volumes of aerial imagery, UAS, and satellite data for geodata acquisition through its flexible and mature ImageStation® photogrammetry environment.
ImageStation® excels at a core task: the precise, interactive capture of 3D objects, including entire infrastructure such as buildings, roads, and bridges, as well as natural terrain features.
Topographical Surveying in Germany
In Germany, surveying offices across the 16 states (Laender) oversee nationwide topographic surveying and infrastructure updates. The ImageStation® platform integrates advanced data acquisition tools with a 3D stereo mouse cursor, enabling precise navigation and measurement in stereoscopic environments. Moreover, it works seamlessly with Schneider Digital’s plug-and-play 3D PluraView monitors, using beam-splitter technology to deliver pixel-accurate 4K stereo visualization with high frame rates, enhanced color depth, brightness, and contrast.
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Smooth GIS Workflow
HEXAGON provides photogrammetry solutions that streamline workflows for processing high-resolution imagery and geocoded CAD/GIS data from start to finish. Modern aerial photogrammetry achieves up to 90% image overlap, generating high-resolution datasets often exceeding 150 TB in large urban projects.
First, it boosts productivity with advanced stereo tools such as smooth roaming, dynamic zoom, and real-time image enhancement in CAD/GIS environments. In addition, it supports efficient stereo and mono compilation, helping update databases faster while reducing time, cost, and effort in producing accurate 3D data.
3D-Cursor – integrated into software applications
HEXAGON’s ImageStation® features a professional stereoscopic 3D cursor for intuitive navigation and precise XYZ object capture. It is integrated across key applications, including ISAT, ISST, ISFC, ISSD, ISSG, ISSV, ISDC, ISDG, and ISAE, with ISPM and ISIF supporting management functions. Batch processing is handled by ISAD and ISOP, while ISDQ and ISPQ provide interactive editing and quality control.
Process geospatial data quickly and precisely
Stereoscopic geospatial data acquisition and processing
Firstly, HEXAGON ImageStation® Stereo for GeoMedia (ISSG), built on the GeoMedia GIS platform, provides smart tools to access geodatabases and view airborne, satellite, and UAS data in flexible mono or stereo modes with accurate 3D cursor tracking.
Additionally, it enables users to update geospatial datasets efficiently through interactive 3D editing, automated attribution, and validation. Finally, it stores outputs in open formats for easy GIS integration.
Additionally, the ImageStation® suite supports DSM generation from stereo imagery and offers structured visualization of raster and vector data. Features such as snap cursor, contour creation, and vertical indexing enhance accuracy, usability, and precise height measurement.
Full performance by 3D-stereo visualization
Computationally intensive reconstruction algorithms generate sharp, georeferenced 3D models from dense point clouds. Meanwhile, the 3D PluraView monitors by Schneider Digital enable precise stereoscopic visualization for professional geospatial applications.
In addition, beam splitter technology supports 4K, 3D, and VR/AR environments. It delivers high-brightness, high-contrast images with full resolution per stereo channel. Moreover, it ensures flicker-free and low-latency performance with synchronized displays. As a result, it provides clear visualization in dark and fast-moving scenes and improves 3D analysis and editing efficiency.
ImageStation® – certified for the 3D PluraView monitors
Backed by 17 years of proven performance, Schneider Digital’s 3D stereo displays provide plug-and-play certification for photogrammetry and GIS and fully support ImageStation® modules, thereby meeting international quality and ergonomics standards.
Furthermore, when combined with high-performance workstations (Intel or AMD CPUs, NVIDIA RTX or AMD Radeon Pro graphics) and Stealth 3D controllers, they deliver a fully integrated photogrammetric workflow. Furthermore, native stereoscopic cursor integration within ImageStation® enables precise 3D navigation, measurement, and data capture.
ImageStation stereo functions and display tools – advantages for the 3D PluraView user:
- High contrast and brightness of the 3D PluraView monitors, combined with flicker-free stereo viewing through light-weight passive stereo glasses, allows long-term, comfortable use and therefore higher productivity
- Smooth stereo roaming and dynamic zoom thanks to the ImageStation’s exclusive ImagePipe technology for continuous stereo display of very large datasets
- Easy navigation in stereo models with mouse, keyboard, the Stealth 3D mouse or by graphical selection in a 2D map view
- Automated correlation of the exact XYZ position of objects with the ‘Cursor-on-Surface’ function
- Display rotation for additional validation of vector data
- Synchronized display of stereoscopic and monoscopic map views for controlled feature collection and review
- GIS data in 2D (only XY coordinates) is displayed under the position of the stereo cursor in the 3D environment, also allowing accurate updating of 2D data
- Streamlines workflow by performing stereo- and mono-data collection directly in a powerful GIS environment
- Better interpretation of image information in 3D-stereo, compared to the interpretation of single images, elimination of 3D parallax enables precise measurements
- Reduces the cost of creating accurate and topologically correct 3D datasets, saving significant time and resources
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