Description and Overview
Need to generate accurate 3D models from imagery? Tired of using cumbersome photogrammetric feature extraction tools? FeatureXTract™ is the solution you have been looking for. Using FeatureXTract™ you can quickly extract 3D buildings and roads from overlapping aerial and satellite imagery in an easy to use interface. No need to worry about epipolar resampling or other confusing photogrammetric issues. With FeatureXTract™, simply load your imagery, extract buildings, and export them for use in GIS or visual simulation applications. FeatureXTract™ automatically texture maps extracted buildings from your source imagery. No need to worry about selecting the best texture. Using FeatureXTract™ you no longer need special graphics hardware to extract features in stereo.
With an emerging list of export formats, FeatureXTract™ will be the tool you turn to for extracting high resolution, geospatially accurate features.
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Features
- Geospatially accurate 3D modeling from overlapping Quickbird™ and Ikonos™ satellite imagery as well as aerial imagery
- Rapid extraction of 3D buildings and roads
- Export features to ESRI Shapefile™ for use in GIS applications
- Export features to .obj for use in visual simulation applications
- Automated texture mapping
- Extract both building roofline and footprint
- Simple and complex building rooftop extraction
- Easy to use split screen interface for streamlined production
System Requirements
- 2 GHz+ processor
- 1GB+ system RAM
- DirectX® 9.0c supported graphics card
- 64MB of RAM
- Capable of 1280X1024 resolution
- 50MB of free hard disk space
- WindowsXP® operating system (with Service Pack 2)
Version Information
- FeatureXTract™ v.1.2 (Released February 2008)
Download Links
- Log-in for registered downloads and updates
Example Screenshots
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