20 Years of Racurs. 20 Years of Racurs. History of Success.History of Success.

Victor Adrov, Racurs, RussiaVictor Adrov, Racurs, Russia

September 2013, Fontainebleau, France

Scope of activity:Development of DPS PHOTOMOD and its promotion on the world-wide market

Promotion of supplementary Geoinformatics software products

Satellite imagery distribution

Production of photogrammetric service

RACURS & PHOTOMODRACURS & PHOTOMOD

Racurs company's business mission is to provide the world-wide geospatial Racurs company's business mission is to provide the world-wide geospatial community with advanced and cost-effective digital photogrammetry solutions and community with advanced and cost-effective digital photogrammetry solutions and services for creation of wide range of output products from the available remote services for creation of wide range of output products from the available remote

sensing data.sensing data.

1993 – Racurs Company foundation

1994 − selling of the first commercial license of DPS PHOTOMOD

2000 – creation of the Production Department

2004 – first distribution of space remote sensing data

2009 – new PHOTOMOD 5.* platform

RACURS milestones: RACURS milestones: 1993-1996. Trademarks.1993-1996. Trademarks.

1993. Racurs company foundation 1995. ISPRS workshop in Russia. First public mentioning of PHOTOMOD name

RACURS milestones: RACURS milestones: 1993-1996. First partners and clients1993-1996. First partners and clients

1993. Participation in the 1st Forum on Exchange of Technologies between East and West, France. Partnership with Continental HighTech Services (France).

1995. 1st PHOTOMOD license was sold in Russia to SurgutNIPINeft

1996. 1st Dealership Agreement for PHOTOMOD was signed with company PROGIS (Austria)

“...during PHOTOMOD practical applications we gained an insight into its great potential for both amateurish and professional use and clear advantages over other known PC-oriented products in respect of possible operations with DTM and the degree of automatization of main photogrammetric procedures.” (PROGIS Seminar, February 1996, Austria)

RACURS milestones: RACURS milestones: 1993-1996. PHOTOMOD structure1993-1996. PHOTOMOD structure

1996. PHOTOMOD, version 1.5PHOTOMOD - main module for interior/relative/absolute orientation of stereopair,

reference data input, 3D measurements;PHOTOMOD DTM - automatic DTM generation and edition, orthorectification, contour

lines;PHOTOMOD VectOr - creation, edition and export of vector lines;PHOTOMOD StereoDraw - creation, edition and export of vector lines in stereo mode.PHOTOMOD ScanCorrect - additional module for compensation of geometric

inaccuracy of flatbed scanners

PHOTOMOD main module PHOTOMOD DTM module PHOTOMOD StereoDraw module

PHOTOMOD VectOr module

Terrestrial imagery processing

1993 Company RACURS foundation.1994 First commercial version. Single pair orientation, stereo display, correlation based image matching.1995 Official registration of PHOTOMOD software. PHOTOMOD DTM: TIN, DEM, contours and

orthophoto generation, PHOTOMOD VectOr: monoplotting over orthophoto. 1996 PHOTOMOD StereoDraw: On-screen 3D stereo plotting. First international distributors.1997 PHOTOMOD trade mark registration. PHOTOMOD ScanCorrect: Desktop scanners calibration.

PHOTOMOD system is certified by State Land Use Committee of Russian Federation.1998 On-line 3D features coding. RACURS Co. becomes a sustaining member of ISPRS.1999 Versions 2.*. PHOTOMOD AT: aerial triangulation and block adjustment. New PHOTOMOD VectOr

module.2000 Further development: graphic interface for adjustment results analysis, compressed images

processing, etc. New web site www.racurs.ru.2001 Version 3.0. Distributed network projects, pushbroom scanner images processing, etc.2002 Version 3.11. Automatic interior orientation, new PHOTOMOD Mosaic module.2003 Version 3.5. Network ideology, development of block processing approach. 2004 Version 3.6. Editing tie points in many windows. QuickBird, EROS, SPOT 5 support etc. 2005 Version 3.8. PHOTOMOD GeoMosaic for external images processing. 2006 Versions 4.0-4.2. Fully automated tie points measurements. Stereoblocks and monoblocks.2007 Version 4.3 Bundle adjustment. Support of Kompsat 2 and ADS 40. Fast TIN creation algorithm. New

pan-sharpening algorithms. Satellite images in GeoMosaic.2008 Version 4.4 Field Survey module. GPS support. 3D objects while exporting to AutoCAD. Satellite

images in PHOTOMOD StereoLink.2009 Version 5.0. New level of automation and productivity.2010-2012 Versions 5.*. “Dense” DTM, GPGPU technology support, distributed processing, 3D-Mod

module, VisionMap A3 project processing, Canopus-B, Pleiades, etc modern satellite imagery processing.

2013 PHOTOMOD Conveyor, new methods of 3D models creation, more automation.

History ofHistory of PHOTOMOD PHOTOMOD developmentdevelopment

Block layout PhototriangulationDTM extraction and filtering

Orthomosaic seam linesand color balancing

Hands-off processes in Hands-off processes in PHOTOMOD PHOTOMOD softwaresoftware

Processing of satellite imagery inProcessing of satellite imagery in PHOTOMOD PHOTOMOD

2009

2004

PHOTOMOD supportsPHOTOMOD doesn’t support

2001

2010 -… Full support of new satellites sensors – 1 month before/after launching

PHOTOMOD. PHOTOMOD. Any data, any sensorAny data, any sensor

PHOTOMOD users – 600+ companies in the world, 300+ - in Russia

Workplaces – 6000+

PHOTOMOD is used in 70 countries

PHOTOMODPHOTOMOD in th in the we worldorld

PHOTOMOD PHOTOMOD distributorsdistributors

MapWorld MapWorld TechnologiTechnologies/ Indiaes/ India

Nama Pardaz Nama Pardaz RayanehRayaneh / /

IranIranSimon Kaplo Simon Kaplo EngineeringEngineering

/ Syria/ Syria

EUROBITEUROBIT / Italy/ Italy

Parnas Parnas / Latvia/ Latvia

SIGMAGESIGMAGEOO/ /

Portugal/ Portugal/ SpainSpain

InfoMap d.o.o.InfoMap d.o.o. / Serbia & BIH/ Serbia & BIH

Workvision Workvision Scientek Corp.Scientek Corp. / /

TaiwanTaiwan

Paksoy Paksoy TeknikTeknik / / TurkeyTurkey

Chan Chau Chan Chau Co. Co. / Vietnam/ Vietnam

Yanniris Yanniris YannisYannis

/ Greece / Greece GIS-Sofia Ltd.GIS-Sofia Ltd.

/Bulgaria /Bulgaria

GPS GPS AgrimensoraAgrimensora

/ / BrazilBrazil

GISINFO GISINFO / Ukraine/ Ukraine

CiS GmbHCiS GmbH/ Germany/ Germany

Geodis BRNOGeodis BRNO/ Chech Rep./ Chech Rep.

GeoInfo GeoInfo ServicesServices/Malaysia/Malaysia

GGeokoncepteokoncept / / EcuadorEcuador

Acuvec Acuvec / Canada/ Canada

SmartSpatio SmartSpatio TechnologieTechnologie

s /Chinas /China

Galantis/ USA

Media Data Media Data CommunicatioCommunicationn / Indonesia/ Indonesia

Hayson Geospatial / Australia

Geomatica Ingenieria/ Colombia

Geosatelites/ Nicaragua

Navayuga Middle East/ U.A.E.

www.racurs.ru

PHOTOMOD development. PHOTOMOD development. Automated dense 3D modelsAutomated dense 3D models

PHOTOMOD developmentPHOTOMOD development. 3D modelling. 3D modelling

Input data:

Satellite images with RPC coefficients

DTMs

Output data:

Seamless orthomosaic

Orthophoto sheets

Complete automation of the operationsComplete automation of the operations

PHOTOMOD Conveyor. PHOTOMOD Conveyor. Distributed processingDistributed processing

Joint product: RACURS and СТТ Group (Russia)

Preconditions for the development of highly- efficient conveyor system for orthomosaics creation:

Choice of the most required final product of photogrammetric processing of the remote space dataCreation of a technology focusing on one final product (orthomosaics) and giving up the universalityExperience in application of complete automation of basic photogrammetric operationsExperience in realization of the efficient distributed processing focused on the computational clustersDevelopment of hardware and softwareOffer to the customers of the optimized total solution that includes software and special hardware

Productivity of the system on specialized hybrid computational cluster: close to 1000 000 sq km orthmosaics of highly-quality per 24 hours based on SVHR satellite sensors data

Photogrammetric works in Racurs companyPhotogrammetric works in Racurs company

Photogrammetric service for clients was launched in 2000.

Production department has completed tens commercial photogrammetric projects by orders of Russian and foreign companies.

This experience is taken into account in PHOTOMOD software development.

Example of one project done in Racurs.

BD Topo Project (France).Topographic database creation (2005-2006)

Camera Focal length =153.972 mmScanning resolution - 28 micronsClassifier - 133 codesRequired accuracy of 3D feature extraction: 1 m

Made in RACURS: 25 blocks of aerial images, total area ~ 25000 km2

Sites of holding:2001. Irkutsk, Russia2002. St. Petersburg, Russia2003. Golitcino, Russia2004. Minsk, Belarus2005. Jurmala, Latvia2006. Becici, Montenegro2007. Nessebar, Bulgaria2008. Porec, Croatia2009. Attica, Greece2010. Gaeta, Italy2011. Tossa de Mar, Spain2012. Algarve, Portugal2013. Fontainebleau, France

Racurs conferences. Racurs conferences. HistoryHistory

Worldwide trainingWorldwide training

Racurs on exhibitionsRacurs on exhibitions

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