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| Boeing's SoftPlotter 4.1 Software is Released Boeing has released version 4.1 of its SoftPlotter digital map production software, enabling users to provide digital mapping products to their defense and commercial mapping customers. SoftPlotter's engineering-based, map development products drive civil works projects, commercial real estate and highway development, and are used to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Global Geospatial Intelligence program with digital mapping production services. SoftPlotter 4.1 runs on Windows XP and 2000 operating systems. The new SoftPlotter provides JPEG 2000 support - the next-generation image compression algorithm now widely available in digital imagery circles - that allows imagery compression with fewer artifacts than JPEG. Digital Globe QuickBird sensor support for panchromatic and multispectral imagery offers SoftPlotter users full, rigorous sensor model and triangulation support, while digital aerial camera support for the Intergraph Z/I DMC, Vexcel UltraCAM and Airborne Data Systems digital cameras allow users to process imagery directly from these devices. SoftPlotter's new multi-window capability allows all viewing tools to display multiple stereo and monoscopic views of imagery, with geosynchronous cursor movement in all views. New AutoCAD, MicroStation and ESRI translators are included, and Visual Basic workflow wizards provide streamlined workflow setups for batch processes. Of interest to KDMS users, SoftPlotter 4.1 provides a COM interface callable from macros and a database interface for collection of fully attributed vector map data. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |