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2007:73 is the 58th Release of the TNT products
MicroImages maintains
an ambitious software development schedule with a new version of the TNT
products coming out every year
with new features, fixes, and speed-ups. This aggressive schedule allows the
company to implement innovative features quickly and be responsive to user
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31 December 2007
Pipeline Sample Script: PipelineContrastCompositeToTIFF.sml
A
sample pipeline script shows how to apply contrast
to three grayscale RVC source rasters and make an
RGB composite as a GeoTIFF file. If any input
grayscale raster does not have a contrast table, the
script computes a standard contrast table for a
temporary copy of this raster, then applies this
contrast. This script illustrates setting up an
image processing pipeline with multiple sources,
serial processing filters, and a single RVC raster
target.
 PipelineContrastCompositeToTIFF.sml
Pipeline
Scripting Page
28 December 2007
Pipeline Sample Script: PipelineFilterLookup.sml
A
sample pipeline script shows how to apply contrast
to a grayscale raster. If the input raster does not
have a contrast table, the script computes a
standard contrast table for a copy of the raster,
then applies this table. A default linear contrast
table is also computed for the output raster, which
has lossless JPEG2000 compression applied. This
script illustrates setting up an image processing
pipeline with a single source and a single target
that is not an RVC raster.
PipelineFilterLookup.sml
Pipeline
Scripting Page
27 December 2007
Pipeline Sample Script: PipelineResampleToMatch.sml
A sample pipeline script shows how to
resample a single raster to match the extents, cell
size, and coordinate reference system of a reference
raster. This script illustrates setting up an image
processing pipeline with two sources, a single
processing filter, and a single target RVC raster.
PipelineResampleToMatch.sml
Pipeline
Scripting Page
26 December 2007
Pipeline Sample Script: PipelineResampleToGeoref.sml
A
sample pipeline script shows how to resample a
single raster to match its georeference using the
line and column cell sizes specified by the user.
This script illustrates setting up an image
processing pipeline with a single source and a
single target RVC raster using the new pipeline classes in SML.
PipelineResampleToGeoref.sml
Pipeline
Scripting Page
24 December 2007
Scripting: New Pipeline Scripting Page
Scripting
in the TNT products supports a wide variety of
customization. A new page lists sample scripts
that demonstrate how SML takes direct
advantage of the internal pipeline architecture in
the TNT products for fast, efficient processing.
The pipeline coding at the system level in the TNT
products supports multi-thread, multi-core
processing.
Pipeline
Scripts
21 December 2007
TNT Products Overview: Watershed Analysis
A new product overview page describes
the range of features and processes that support
watershed analysis in the TNT products. Using
any digital elevation model (DEM), the process divides
the terrain into watersheds and determines the stream
network for each. Watersheds can also be divided into
basins (subwatersheds) for branches of the stream
network.
Watershed
Analysis (pdf)
20 December 2007
Sample Geologic CartoScripts Updated
Sample geologic CartoScripts provide
custom symbology for lines and points on geologic
maps. Sample scripts are provided to represent
strike and dip of planar outcrop features, trend and
plunge of linear outcrop features, and for fault and
fold lines. These scripts have been updated to
automatically adjust symbol scaling for different
coordinate reference systems (projected,
latitude/longitude) and units (meters, feet, ...),
to adjust point symbols for the local angle to
north, and to provide special scaling for LegendView.
Sample
Cartoscripts ...
19 December 2007
Spatial Display: Render Graphics to KML/KMZ
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes how to use logos,
map legends, and other non-georeferenced graphical
objects in multi-layer groups or layouts that you
render to KML/KMZ for viewing in Google Earth.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Render
Graphics to KML/KMZ (pdf)
18 December 2007
TNT Products Overview: 3D Visualization
A new product overview page describes
the range of features and processes that support 3D
Visualization in the TNT products. Use digital
elevation models (DEMs) as a 3D surface with any type
of geospatial data in 3D perspective and stereo views.
3D
Visualization (pdf)
17 December 2007
Development Version 2008:74: Installers Available for
64-bit Intel Mac OS X.
Installers are now available for the 64-bit
version of Mac OS X on the Intel Macintosh.
| Available NOW |
Download and create a separate
installation of the Development Version
DV2008:74 TNT products. |
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If your software authorization
key is authorized for the 2007:73 TNT
products, it will also permit you to use the
full DV2008:74.
If you are not using version 2007:73, you can
still download and try DV2008:74 in TNTlite
mode. |
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The official release of 2008:74
of the TNT products will be in the first
quarter of 2008. At that time you will need to
upgrade your TNT products to continue to
use the new features in version 2008:74. |
| New Features |
Many new Technical
Guides provide detailed introductions
to the new major features in DV2008:74.
See New
Feature Priority logs for a listing of
all completed new DV2008:74 features. |
14 December 2007
Spatial Display: Inline Filtering of Images
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes the new feature
for dynamically filtering images in the display
process. Several varieties are offered for
multi-band, multi-layer sharpening, smoothing / noise
removal, edge detection, and Radar.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Inline
Filtering of Images (2-sided) (pdf)
13 December 2007
System: MicroImages' WMS and ArcIMS Catalogs
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes the new system features in
support of the WMS and ArcIMS catalogs that
MicroImages supplies. You can use these catalogs
to add map layers published on the internet as layers
in your TNT display windows.
Web map servers are changing the way
professionals acquire and use complex sets of
multi-layer geodata.
MicroImages'
WMS and ArcIMS Catalogs (pdf)
12 December 2007
"I look forward to upgrading ..."
Recent email from a MicroImages client
in Australia:
"... I look forward to upgrading my TNTmips license and benefitting from these improvements. I note the expanded
support for KML/KMZ ..."
Some technical details ...
Render WMS and ArcIMS Layers to KML(pdf)
Create KML-KMZ Files from Map Layouts (pdf)
Create
KML or KMZ files for Google Maps (pdf)
Render
Map Layouts to KML (pdf)
Render
Raster Objects to KML (pdf)
Download a free
version ...
11 December 2007
New Page: Introduction to Geotagging
A few cameras have a GPS device built into them
and record the geoposition of the camera when a photo is
taken. These coordinates are recorded along with many of the
camera and photo attributes in a record associated with the
photo in the EXIF file. Most cameras create this standard EXIF
file but lack the GPS to determine the location of the camera.
There are several ways you can use the TNT products, including
the FREE TNTlite, to add geotags to your digital photos.
Read more: Introduction
to Geotagging
A general introduction to geotagging is
provided in the following Technical Guide:
Geotagging
Digital Photos (pdf)
7 December 2007
Press Release: TNTmips Integrates Geotagged Photos into
Geospatial Analysis
This Press Release has been added to the
MicroImages Press
Release page:
MicroImages has released extensive,
integrated support for the creation, storage, and management
of geotagged photos in its TNT product line. Geotags
collected by the camera for locations can be imported and
stored with the photos. If the photos are not taken with
geotags, their locations can be interpolated from the
separate, concurrent GPS logs. If no GPS logs are available,
the locations can be added by plotting the photos on
available orthophotos or using Google Earth and importing
the KML file. Standard EXIF files can be read, interpolated,
or created as needed in these geotag operations for use in
other products including KML or KMZ for Google Earth and
Google Maps.
Photos are stored as image fields (BLOBs)
in database tables along with locations and descriptive
parameters. The photo locations can be converted into any
coordinate reference system and datum. They can be selected
by query and other means and added in their correct location
into any 2D or 3D view of geospatial materials at any
relative or fixed scale. Photos can pop-in as DataTips when
the cursor is over the corresponding position in the view.
DataTips can show the photo and text and graphics from the
database. Photo positions can be converted to vector point
locations in any coordinate reference system and exported to
other formats. For more details on the various methods the
TNT products use to handle geotagged photos see the
materials at www.microimages.com/press/geophoto.htm.
6 December 2007
ArcIMS and WMS Layers Cataloged and Viewed
The TNT analysis products can add maps and
images published by any Web Map Service (WMS) or ArcIMS as
layers in a view where they can be combined with local geodata
layers. Using a TNT product to select from hundreds of
thousands of maps and images published on the web by these
services is very similar to the selection of any local geodata
layer.
MicroImages runs an authomatic web search
process that continuously maintains and updates a catalog of
layers available from these web map services Then the
TNT products access the current catalog at microimages.com
each time the WMS or ArcIMS layer selection option is chosen.
The web's map and image layers can be searched by title or
geographic coverage.
5 December 2007
"The Speed of the New Mosaic Process is
Impressive!!!!!!!!"
"The speed of the new
mosaic process is impressive!!!!!!!!"
writes a faculty member of a Polish university who uses
TNTmips for teaching and research. He reports by email
after using the new mosaic process in the development
version 2008:74 of the TNT products.
Redesigned
Process is Flexible and Fast (pdf)
Grayscale,
Multiband, and Color (pdf)
Mosaic
Directly to TNT Tileset (pdf)
If your TNT products software authorization
key is authorized for the 2007:73 TNT products, you can also
use the full DV2008:74.
If you are not using version 2007:73, you can still download
and try DV2008:74 in TNTlite
mode.
4 December 2007
GeoToolbox: Erasing Portions of Lines and Polygons
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes the new features in the
GeoToolbox for erasing portions of lines and polygons in the
sketch layer.
The GeoToolbox is available in any view window
in the TNT products for integrated sketching, measuring,
selection, and region creation with reference to other geodata
layers.
Erasing
Portions of Lines and Polygons (pdf)
30 November 2007
Sample Tool Script: Strike/Dip Tool Works with Any
Georeferenced Image
A new Technical
Guide for 2007:73 describes the free StrikeDipTool.sml,
which lets you locate and record strike and dip for any
interpretable rock layers for any area in the world using
elevation data (such as the global
elevation available from MicroImages) with any
georeferenced site image overlay for visual reference.
The TNT products support the
creation and use of complex
interactive customized tools for special needs.
Strike/Dip
Tool Works with Any Georeferenced Image (pdf)
StrikeDipTool.sml
29 November 2007
U.S. 10-Meter Elevation Data (NED10)
A new Technical
Guide for 2007:73 describes the TNT tileset of the
conterminous United States from the National Elevation
Dataset, which merges the best-quality elevation data
available into one 280,801 x 638,744 raster object. The
TNT tileset uses lossless JPEG2000 compression in each 2k x 2k
tile to preserve the fidelity of the 16-bit signed integer
elevation values.
U.S.
10-Meter Elevation Data (NED10) (pdf)
28 November 2007
The Challenge for Geospatial Tools in Minerals Exploration
[email from a senior exploration geologist and long-time
TNTmips user ...]
The proliferation and rate of
change with which we can access and obtain datasets via the
www continues to enthuse me with the possibilities it
presents. We are living through amazing times with a
complete revolution taking place around us. Who could have
predicted where Google would have got to from 'simple' word
searches to developments into spatial searches and detailed
global satellite imagery? As I have
been telling colleagues recently, we now have the ability to
see every near surface mineral deposit in the world, both
discovered and undiscovered. The challenge for us is now to
be able to identify them!! The digital age means that
we can easily be data rich but information poor. The ability
to speak various languages and interact with different
cultures -- to be open minded -- is as important in the GIS
world as it is in our world. Anything you can do to link TNT
with Arc will increase your profile and with it my ability
to promote the specialized and leading edge functionalities
in your products. The isolation policy of countries rarely
works (look at North Korea or Albania!) so whatever can be
done to communicate and integrate could be positive -- must
be two-way. [continues with further comments on their
corporate uses of Google Earth]
These comments relate to
MicroImages' recent announcement that version 2008:74
of the TNT products can now add maps and images published
by any Web Map Service (WMS) or ArcIMS as layers in a view
where they may be combined with other geodata layers. Using a
TNT product to select from hundreds of thousands of maps and
images published on the web is very similar to the selection
of any local geodata layer. MicroImages continuously runs a
web search process that maintains and updates the catalog or
index of layers available from these web map services. Each
time the WMS or ArcIMS layer selection option is chosen, the
TNT product accesses the current catalog at microimages.com to
search these published map and image layers, either by title
or by geographic coverage.
27 November 2007
Using ArcIMS, WMS, and WFS Content in the TNT products
 Extensive
map and image materials are available for public access via the Internet.
To make these materials directly available in the TNT
products, MicroImages maintains web map and image coverage catalogs by
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using public search engines to identify sites offering
ArcIMS, WMS, or WFS materials by the standardized characteristics of
these services,
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querying the services to retrieve the characteristics of
the map and image layers being published (such as names, geographic
extent, scale range, and coordinate reference system), and
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frequently revisiting services to record the current
availability of new and previous content, and determine the services'
reliability (?up-time?).
Any TNT professional or FREE product can use
the internet to access the MicroImages map and image coverage catalogs
in order to locate and select map and image materials of interest for a
local area. The layers from these remote services can then be combined
in the TNT product with layers from a local hard drive or network.
Complex multi-layer visualizations can be created in the TNT product, with
an option for one-click launching of that content into Google Maps or Google
Earth.
Many internet sites now identify that they have KML/KMZ map
and image geodata available. Hundreds of thousands of these files have been
cataloged by MicroImages for future use in the TNT products:
21 November 2007
TNT products Use Images and Maps from the Web
New features in the TNT products support searching for,
selecting, and direct use of maps and images published on the internet in
the most common web mapping protocols: ArcIMS and WMS.
20 November 2007
Spatial Display: Locating and Using ArcIMS Layers
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes the steps for selecting Arc Internet
Mapping Server (ArcIMS) layers for direct display in the TNT products.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Locating
and Using ArcIMS Layers (2-sided) (pdf)
19 November 2007
Spatial Display: Inspecting Raster Cells
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes new features for showing dividing lines
and numeric cell values over raster images at high zoom levels.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Inspecting
Raster Cells (pdf)
16 November 2007
Spatial Display: Searching MicroImages' ArcIMS Catalog
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes how to select ArcIMS layers using the
catalog maintained on the MicroImages web site.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Searching
MicroImages' ArcIMS Catalog (2-sided) (pdf)
15 November 2007
Getting Presidential in 3D
From a TNT Products Authorized Reseller:
You may be interested to hear than an anaglyph image
created using TNTmips was framed and presented to the President of [a
country we are trying to make a deal with] and it is now hanging in his
office. The anaglyph was created from the global SRTM and depicts
his country in glorious [color] 3D. We donated him 50 pairs of
anaglyph glasses as well.
Keep up the great work
These Technical
Guides treat anaglyph stereo viewing in the TNT products::
Spatial
Display: Print Anaglyph Stereo Images
(pdf)
Anaglyph
Stereo Viewing
(pdf)
Spatial
Display: View Orthoimages in Stereo Using DEM (pdf)
14 November 2007
15-meter ORTHOCOVERAGEŽ in TNT's RVC
format
TTI
Production, an authorized reseller of the TNT products in France, has
produced ORTHOCOVERAGEŽ a new geoproduct for
image processing and GIS in the TNTmips RVC format. TTI provides
orthoimages, DEMs, and ortho-anaglyph datasets, with free samples for
TNTmips and TNTlite from 11 countries.
Free
15-meter datasets in TNTmips RVC format . . .
13 November 2007
Strike/Dip ToolScript Strikes Home
MicroImages has updated StrikeDipTool.sml,
the interactive ToolScript that computes geological Strike and Dip values
for strata and other planar features from an accurate DEM and overlaid
imagery.
Measure
Strike/Dip of Geologic Features (2-sided) (pdf)
The updated script can use huge tiled geographic or
map-projected rasters as input. Such very large image input can be
used with the massive SRTM90, NED30, and CDE90 DEMs available from
MicroImages:
Global
90-Meter Elevation Data (STRM90) (pdf)
U.S.
30-Meter Elevation Data (NED30) (pdf)
Canada
90-Meter Elevation Data (CDED90) (pdf)
An exploration geologist in a major international minerals
firm commented on 9 November:
Good to hear that [Dr. R. Smith] has been working on the
Dip-strike tool to work with massive DEMs. This should help
getting the structural geos [geologists] onboard. I've been
discussing this with senior management.
9 November 2007
Spatial Display: Searching MicroImages' WMS Catalog
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes how to select WMS layers using the
catalog maintained on the MicroImages web site.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Searching
MicroImages' WMS Catalog (2-sided) (pdf)
7 November 2007
From a MicroImages client in Australia, 5 November 2007:
I find the intelligent, flexible way TNTmips interprets
user input astonishing. No other GIS software could accept and
interpret "-150.5", "W 150.5", "W 149 1.5"
and "-149 90.0" etc. correctly. These TNTmips features
save valuable hours every week, besides making the experience so much more
enjoyable -- like driving a full computerized luxury car with leather
trim.
technical
details ... download
free version . . .
6 November 2007
Spatial Display: Select ArcIMS Layers for Viewing
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes how to select ArcIMS layers for viewing
in the display process, either singly or in any combination with other layers,
such as your local project materials or WMS layers from the web.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Select
ArcIMS Layers for Viewing (2-sided) (pdf)
1 November 2007
Language Kit for German 2007:73
The language
interface package for German has been updated for 2007:73. The
TNT products can be used with 29 international languages. All
language packages are included in the full TNT products
distribution, and the most recent updates are available for free
download.
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