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VG4D Production Manager™

Never before available to general geospatial industry service providers, VG4D Production Manager, the flagship software offering from Virtual Geomatics is now being released to the industry. The company, guided by seasoned software executives and mapping professionals, is fervently committed to providing new software products that deliver quantum leaps over today's market leaders' products with new integrated capabilities for improving the production and exploitation of today's rich, 3D datasets and the new complex multi-dimensional datasets expected over the next decades.

Whether from airborne, terrestrial, or other sources, VG4D Production Manager is designed to help users from all types of mapping firms: Federal, State, and local governments; civil, survey, and environmental engineers; forestry and natural resources professionals; educational and research institutions, and any other geospatial professionals identify, classify, analyze, manipulate, utilize and distribute multidimensional data products.

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Product Highlights

   >Stand-alone; no 3rd party software required
   >Create SILC™ data sets rapidly and easily using existing imagery to attribute LiDAR data with spectral values
   >LAS 1.1 compliant
   >Real-time tracking and reporting

Workflow Management

   >Process-oriented workflow manager
   >Import of project flightlines or data that has already been tiled
   >Database tracking of project and dataflow status, including spatial view
   >Creation and monitoring of data tiles
   >Record your own filtering macros
   >Batch filter by tile or polygon selection using pre-recorded macros for different terrain types
   >Import existing polygons, or create new ones to define process filtering scenarios and manage projects
   >Manual editing tools for final cleanup
   >Export and track products such as GeoTIFFs, shaded relief, LAS, GIS product formats, DXF
   >Product quality report and metadata generation
   >Production metrics

Filtering

   >Advanced pre-eminent filtering and editing tools
   >Filtering modes include:
        • High/Low point filter
        • Edge match filter
        • Classify by SILC™
        • Multiple return analysis filter
        • Vegetation filter
        • Advanced vegetation filter
        • Ground filter
        • Ground modeling filter
        • Building clean-up filter
        • Classify nearby points
        • Noise filter
        • Reclassify
        • SILC color adjustment
        • Custom parameter options

Tool Box

   >SILC -Spectral Imagery LiDAR Composite - LiDAR points attributed with spectral band information
   >Import -ASCII, LAS, GIS product formats
   >Export - Elevation, Intensity, Shaded Relief, SILC GeoTIFF image files; LAS 1.1, ASCII, GIS product formats, DXF
   >LAS and ASCII file reprojection
   >LAS and ASCII gridding
   >Stand-alone quality report generation
   >Point density calculation
   >Advanced import /export product capability

3D Visualization

   >Powerful and easy-to-use 3D data viewer
   >Integrated manual editing and reclassification tools
        •Linked 2D/3D view - rapidly identify and visualize tiles for display, QC or editing
        •Intuitive 3D rotation
   >Visualization modes include - shaded relief, elevation, return intensity shading, color by classification, color by flight line, color by collection date, pseudo-contours and SILC
   >One-button classification visualization
   >Intuitive 3D rotation, panning, zoom tools, vertical exaggeration, azimuth, and on-the-fly TIN rendering
   >GPS time, coordinate, return, intensity and filename readout by cursor location

Project Management

   >Metrics reporting
   >Track time by machine
   >Track time by task
   >Track time by staff member
   >Real-time database update during production/edit/quality control