|
TNTmips
|
From the News Room
2008:74 is the 59th 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 requests.
 Subscribe to this RSS Feed....
|
|
|
24 December 2008
Zoom to Make Visible & to Min/Max Detail
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 has been posted that describes how you can easily zoom to the scale at which a layer becomes visible. You can choose to zoom to the minimum or maximum detail specified for that layer.
The TNT products let you control which layers are visible by map scale so that lower resolution layers that display faster
can be replaced by higher resolution layers after you zoom in. There is also no reason to display very detailed geometric
data when zoomed out because the display may be a meaningless mass of indistinguishable elements.
Zoom to Make Visible & to Min/Max Detail ...
|
|
22 December 2008
Toggle between Tabular and Single Record Views
When looking at database records in single record mode, use the Switch to tabular view icon to change the window to a table of records. Alternatively, when looking at a tabular view, use the Switch to single record view icon to change to a dialog with a single record.
For more information on the newly revised single record view, see the following Technical Guide:
Database: Single Record View ...
|
|
19 December 2008
Render to Geospatial PDF
A new
Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted that describes how you can use Render to
in the TNTmips Display process to convert the contents of your TNT map or layout into some other layout
format. PDF, KML/KMZ, and SVG are all examples of layout formats that can be rendered by the TNT products.
Geospatial PDF is an Adobe specification that georeferences the appropriate components in a layout. Map materials
are being published on the Internet by USGS, NGA, and others in this extended PDF format.
Render to Geospatial PDF ...
|
|
17 December 2008
Use Web Layers as Reference Layers
A new
Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted that describes how you can use WMS and ArcIMS layers as reference layers in the TNT products.
For example, you can georeference raster and geometric layers by entering known coordinates for specific locations or by using a reference layer(s).
There are more than one million WMS and about half that number of ArcIMS layers available worldwide
on the web for selection as reference layers to georeference your data. MicroImages also maintains
1- and/or 2-meter statewide image coverage available from a WMS for the conterminous United
States.
Use Web Layers as Reference Layers ...
|
|
15 December 2008
TNT 2009 Development Version Released
By periodically reinstalling this separate DV2009 version, you can use its new features and participate in their design.
Download TNTmips Development Version 2009 ...
|
|
12 December 2008
Mosaic Multiband Tilesets
You can use the TNTmips Mosaic process to assemble sets of multiband images directly to lossy or lossless JPEG2000 compressed JP2 tilesets. For example, you can mosaic 4-band (red-green-blue-near infrared) images (QuickBird or Ikonos satellite images or aerial orthoimages) or 6-band Landsat images. Each individual JP2 tile file in the tileset includes all of the bands for that tile area and provides efficient compression of the multiband imagery. If lossy compression is used, the tileset structure provides the requested size reduction and very efficient random access to the huge imagery dataset at any zoom level while allowing you to display in color any selection of 3 bands (natural color, color infrared, 3 band ratios, ...). If lossless compression is used, the tileset is still fast for viewing a huge image but is also optimized for any automated analysis of multiband imagery.
|
|
10 December 2008
Manage TNT Temporary Files in Windows
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can control the folders that store temporary
files created by TNT processes in Windows.
What Managing Temporary Files Gives You:
- Designate drive and folder to keep TNT temporary files
- Store temporary files on multiple drives
- View and delete temporary files in the specified temporary folder
Manage TNT Temporary Files in Windows ...
|
|
8 December 2008
Undo Changes in a Single Record View
You can undo the changes you have made to a record with the Undo All Changes button.
For more information on the newly revised single record view, see the following Technical Guide:
Database: Single Record View ...
|
|
4 December 2008
Zoom to Hidden Layer
In the LegendView or Layer Manager use the right mouse button to click on a layer name that is hidden at the current view scale. Choose Zoom to Make Visible from the menu that opens. The composite view of all layers will automatically zoom in or out to the scale range set for the selected layer. If the layer is already visible, this choice will not appear on the menu.
For more information on the this feature look for the Spatial Display: Zoom to Make Visible & to Min/Max Detail Technical Guide, which will be available soon.
|
|
1 December 2008
Quick Create or Save New Record
Use the New Record icon in single record view to create a new record attached to the active element. Use the Save icon to save changes to the record.
For more information on the newly revised single record view, see the following Technical Guide:
Database: Single Record View ...
|
|
26 November 2008
Automatically Smooth Traced Lines
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted.
Lines and polygons that you draw on-screen in the Spatial Editor's
continuous drawing mode typically include various types of digitizing
artifacts. The Editor's Draw mode automatically removes these artifacts from the active line
segment each time you lift the stylus (or lift up on the left mouse button if you are using
a mouse). Spurs, cul de sacs, and closed loops up to four screen pixels in size are removed automatically in
an iterative manner.
Automatically Smooth Traced Lines ...
|
|
25 November 2008
Navigate Records in Single Record View
Change view to other records using first, previous, next, and last icons. Use these icons to navigate by record in the current table or to related/attached records for the active element.
For more information on the newly revised single record view, see the following Technical Guide:
Database: Single Record View ...
|
|
21 November 2008
Manage TNT Temporary Files in Mac OS X
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can control the folders that store temporary
files created by TNT processes in MAC OS X.
What Managing Temporary Files Gives You:
- Designate drive and folder to keep TNT temporary files
- Store temporary files on multiple drives
- Use automatically created TNT temporary files folder to store temporary files
- View and delete temporary files in the specified temporary folder
Manage TNT Temporary Files in Mac OS X ...
|
|
19 November 2008
Database: Single Record View (2-sided)
A new Technical Guide for TNT 2009 has been posted.
Single Record View of a database table in the TNT products has been redesigned for TNT 2009. This new design includes icons that navigate between all records, between only those records attached/related to the active element, to create a new record, to undo or save changes made to the current record, and to switch to a tabular view of the table that includes the record being viewed.
Database: Single Record View (2-sided) ...
|
|
17 November 2008
Render WMS/ArcIMS Layers to KML or KMZ
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can create a KML or a KMZ file from your group
/layout that contains Web Map Service (WMS) or ArcIMS layer(s).
What Rendering WMS/ArcIMS Layers to KML or KMZ Gives You:
- A KML or KMZ file that stores WMS/ArcIMS layer(s) with the other content of the
group/layout
- Store WMS/ArcIMS layer(s) in a KML/KMZ file as network links or local images
- Automatic update of the dynamic WMS/ArcIMS layer when its content changes
- Adjust automatically calculated cell size, and the format of the local images
Render WMS/ArcIMS Layers to KML or KMZ ...
|
|
13 November 2008
DEM and Contours from ALOS PRISM images
Photogrammetric Generation of DEMs using ALOS PRISM images. Report to Geoscience Australia, by terranean mapping technologies, 21 September 2008.
18 pages.
This report documents methods for generating digital elevation models and contour lines from stereo PRISM images supplied with Rational Polynomial Coefficients (RPCs). TNTmips was used to interpolate a 10-meter DEM from 3D point elevations, breaklines, and formlines extracted from the georeferenced stereo images in Socet Set photogrammetric software. TNTmips was also used to generate 5-meter contour lines from the DEM and to orthorectify the PRISM images using the DEM and RPCs. The study concludes that DEMs and contours with vertical accuracy between 5 and 10 meters can be produced from stereo ALOS imagery at much lower cost per square kilometer than LIDAR, aerial stereo photography, or airborne SAR, especially for small study areas.
You can contact the authors of this study via their web site: terranean.com.au.
DEM and Contours from ALOS PRISM images (18 pages) ...
|
|
11 November 2008
Create PDF Files from Map Layouts
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can create a georeferenced PDF file from the
geospatial layers in your groups or map layouts.
What Create PDF Files from Map Layouts Gives You:
- Match the extents of any open 2D or 3D View window or match the inclusive
extents of all layers in a view
- Choose to link to system fonts, embed fonts, or render text
- Set the coordinate accuracy for raster cells and geometric elements in PDF file
- Control visibility of group(s) and spatial objects individually in Acrobat
Create PDF Files from Map Layouts ...
|
|
7 November 2008
Directly Edit Geodata on Tablet PC
Industry News...
The HP Pavillion TX2500 convertible tablet PC uses a Wacom pressure-sensitive screen and stylus. You can use this tablet's stylus in the TNT Editor to modify geometric or raster layers in stereo. A second larger monitor also could be added to this tablet for office use using a low-cost USB VGA Display Adapter.
Interpret/Draw/Edit Directly on Screen with Tablet PCs and Pen Displays ...
|
|
5 November 2008
Render 3D View to KML/KMZ
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can render the layers in a 3D group to a KML
file using the extents of any open 3D view window.
What Render 3D View to KML/KMZ Gives You:
- Display the content of 3D view in Google Earth
- Select any open 3D view window to use its extents for the KML file
- View the layers from the last used angle and elevation in Google Earth
Render 3D View to KML/KMZ ...
|
|
3 November 2008
Trace Smooth Lines
Lines and polygons you draw in the Editor using a mouse or stylus
can have unwanted artifacts such as spurs, loops, and stair-steps.
The Smoothing slider in the Line and Polygon drawing tools allows
you to remove these artifacts as you draw and produce smoother lines.
The slider provides four levels of increasing smoothing (1 through 4) that
are applied automatically as you draw to smooth out stair-steps. Spurs
and loops are removed automatically even when smoothing is turned off
(slider set to 0). The original line geometry is kept in memory as you draw
so that you choose the best smoothing level before accepting the line.
|
|
30 October 2008
Canada 20-Meter Elevation Data (CDED20)
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted that
describes the 20-Meter Canada Elevations DVD distributed by MicroImages. The DVD provides
elevation data for nearly all of Canada with a cell size of 0.75 arc-seconds
from the Canadian Digital Elevation Data (CDED) series. The tileset structure is optimized
to allow very rapid display of the entire dataset in the TNT products at
any viewing scale. In addition, the small individual JP2 tile files can be used in any other software program that supports
the JP2 format. Lossless JPEG2000 compression was applied to preserve
the fidelity of the original data. The elevation dataset provided on this DVD can be used in many ways in the
TNT products:
Canada 20-Meter Elevation Data (CDED20) ...
|
|
28 October 2008
Preview in Copy/Paste
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can use the Preview tool to resize, reposition
and/or rotate the copied elements when pasting.
What Using Preview in Copy/Paste Gives You:
- A resizable box showing the extents of the copied elements
- Ability to resize, reposition, and/or rotate the rectangle using the mouse
- Visualize copied elements with their assigned style
Preview in Copy/Paste ...
|
|
23 October 2008
Create KML File from Photo Locations
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can add geographic coordinates to digital
photos and create a KML file with digital photo locations.
What Creating KML File from Photo Locations Gives You:
- Generate a KMZ file from database pinmap of the photo location
- View photo locations in Google Earth and Google Maps
- Use image thumbnails for placemark symbols
- View photos in a pop-up viewer window
Create KML File from Photo Locations ...
|
|
21 October 2008
TNT Products Application: Planning Rural Development (2-sided)
A new product application page surveys the use of the TNT products in Planning Rural Development.
TNTmips provides a variety of tools for managing spatial materials for
rural development planning of industrial sites, developable
residential land, agricultural land, tourism/recreation facilities etc.
These tools help to identify economic development opportunities and
publicize the existence of these opportunities for development. With
GIS, 2D/3D visualization and geospatial analysis tools, TNTmips helps
planners and decision makers plan, organize, and promote economic
opportunities in rural areas.
TNTmips also provides a variety of data
publishing methods such as hardcopy printing, PDF creation, online
mapping, electronic atlases, Google Earth overlays, and 3D simulations
to assist in using your spatial information to promote, publicize and
manage economic development.
Planning Rural Development (2-sided)
|
|
|
|
17 October 2008
Agronomists Use TNTatlas
Client videos illustrate uses of an Iowa spatial data set. They include tutorials on measuring, printing
to PDF, sketching, creating and combining regions, and determining attributes. These training videos and the atlas used for demonstration were prepared
by MaxYield, an agricultural cooperative serving about 25% of Iowa.
|
|
15 October 2008
Digital Photos as DataTips
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can view digital photos as DataTips using
field values you create yourself or create automatically in the geotagging process.
What Digital Photos as DataTips Gives You:
- View digital photos in a pop-in DataTip
- Display digital photos along with the information from other layers in a DataTip
Digital Photos as DataTips ...
|
|
13 October 2008
Import NITF 2.1 with JPEG2000
TNT import of NITF 2.1 files has been expanded to handle files that use
JPEG2000 compression. Imagery from DigitalGlobe and others using this
format/compression is available to U.S. federal, state, and local government
agencies under the NGA ClearView and NextView contracts.
|
|
8 October 2008
Building Dialogs in SML
Expanded and updated tutorial ... This TNTmips tutorial has been expanded to 36 pages and updated to be current with version 2008 of the TNT products. Several new sample scripts are provided.
Learn how to create your own custom dialog windows in your geospatial scripts and use them to control script actions. Dialogs can be set up using simple XML text structures that are fully documented in this booklet.
More ...
Building Dialogs in SML ...
|
|
3 October 2008
Displaying Geospatial Data
Expanded and updated tutorial ... This TNTmips tutorial has been expanded and updated to 36 pages and rewritten to be current with version 2008 of the TNT products.
Learn the basics of geospatial visualization with the first of the Tutorial booklets. Find out how to display layers of raster, vector, CAD, SHAPE, TIN,
and database project materials, and how to control the layers with zoom, reposition, and other visualization tools. More ...
Displaying Geospatial Data ...
|
|
30 September 2008
Turn Locator On/Off in Legend
A new Quick Guide describes how you can control the visibility of the Locator in the
Legend in TNTmips.
What Turning Locator On/Off in Legend Gives You:
- Choose to show the Locator in the Legend
- Choose to hide the Locator in the Legend
Turn Locator On/Off in Legend ...
|
|
26 September 2008
What Is a Shape Object?
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted that describes what a Shape Object is in the TNT products.
CAD, topological vectors, and TINs are common structures for spatial data with associated attributes stored in a linked or internal
database. Each of these spatial structures has advantages in specific geospatial applications requiring geometric data. All can be
directly used in the TNT products as linked layers or internal spatial objects.
Each popular database system has its independent approach to storing geometric elements and rasters
as specialized fields in tables. There is enough similarity in how these structures store spatial components
and their georeference that the geodata layers they can define can be treated as shape objects in TNTmips ...
What Is a Shape Object? ...
|
|
25 September 2008
Sync Google Earth with 2D Views
A new Quick Guide describes how you can use the Zoom Google Earth to Match View
icon to launch and track your TNT 2D view position in Google Earth.
What Syncing Google Earth with 2D Views Gives You:
- Open Google Earth zoomed up to your current view
- Google Earth view repositioned and zoomed to match changes in TNT view
- Draw your group/view extents in Google Earth in desired colors
- Control Google Earth parameters in TNTmips
Sync Google Earth with 2D Views ...
|
|
23 September 2008
Zoom With Locator
A new Quick Guide describes how you can use the Locator to zoom in/out in any View
window and move the area viewed around when zoomed in.
What Zooming With Locator Gives You Gives You:
- A reference view in full extents showing the zoom area
- An elastic box defining the extents of the view(s)
- Ability to resize, and reposition the elastic box using the mouse
- Control layer visibility for the reference view
Zoom With Locator ...
|
|
19 September 2008
TNTmips Used to Create Digital Geologic Map at the
Institute of Geological Sciences, Wroclaw University, Poland
MicroImages Press Release ...
Researchers at the Institute of Geological Sciences at Wroclaw University, Poland, created digital and print versions of
a complex geologic map of parts of Poland and the Czech Republic entirely in TNTmips. Jerzy Don, Jaroslav Skácel,
and Roman Gotowala compiled the Geological Map of the Snieznik Metamorphic Unit, Staré Mesto Zone, and Velké
Vbrno Dome, which portrays the distribution of 61 rock units, major faults, and structural measurements over an area
of 1875 square kilometers at a scale of 1:50,000. The map makes use of the many cartographic features available in
TNTmips map layouts: solid and patterned polygon fills, a complex legend, text annotations, index map, scale bar, and
several map grids. Each of the numerous geological strike/dip point symbols is rendered with the proper orientation and
label using a CartoScript™ (provided by MicroImages) that reads the required values from the associated point database.
The digital atlas version of this colorful map is available on CD-ROM from the Institute of Geological Sciences
(email contact: romgot@ing.uni.wroc.pl). This atlas can be viewed in MicroImages' free TNTatlas product. The CDROM
and a half-size (1:100,000 scale, 46 x 66 centimeter) print version of the map also accompany an article by these
authors entitled The boundary zone of the East and West Sudetes on the 1:50 000 scale geological map of the Velké
Vbrno, Staré Mesto and Snieznik Metamorphic Units in the journal Geologica Sudetica, volume 35, 2003, pages 25-29.
|
|
18 September 2008
64-Bit TNT Products Read/Write *.sid
The 32-bit versions of the TNT products for Mac OS X and Windows have
for several years provided read and write support for *.sid files. A recently
released LizardTech library has permitted support for these same capabilities
for the 64-bit version of the 2008 TNT products for Mac OS X (Intel) and
Windows. Update the 64-bit version of your TNT 2008 product to use this
capability.
|
|
17 September 2008
Add Monitors to a Portable
Industry News...
TNTmips is commonly used as a totally portable geospatial analysis system. Powerful dual core, and soon 4-core, portables are capable of running many simultaneous TNT process. When you are in the office, you may want to add 1 or 2 additional monitors to your portable, but your portable has only 1 monitor connector.
Add additional monitors at low cost to a Windows portable computer via a USB port or powered hub. USB VGA Display Adaptors from EVGA turn any available USB port into an additional video output for use with another display.
EVGA web site ...
|
|
15 September 2008
Geotag Digital Photos
A new Quick Guide describes how to add geographic coordinates to digital
photos.
What Geotagging Digital Photos Gives You:
- Create a database pinmap of the photo location
- View photos in a pop-up viewer window
- Convert photo locations to vector object
- Use image thumbnails for styling vector elements or pinmap symbol
- Create a KML file from the photos to display in Google Earth
Geotag Digital Photos ...
|
|
12 September 2008
Graphic Tool Updates
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted that describes the updated tools for drawing and editing lines and polygons in the Editor and GeoToolbox.
The updated tools smoothly integrate drawing and reshaping of lines with the current mouse activity indicated by markers along the line and cursor shape. Rotation handles have been added to the tools for shapes that can be rotated (rectangles, ellipses, and regular polygons). The new functions of the mouse scroll wheel are also described.
Graphic Tool Updates ...
|
|
11 September 2008
Quick Guide: Direct Use of DGN Files (*.dgn)
A new Quick Guide has been posted:
DID YOU KNOW . . . you can directly display and use Intergraph
MicroStation DGN files in the TNT products?
What Direct Use of DGN Files Gives You:
- View as layers without importing the files
- View without altering the original files
- Show DataTips from available attributes
- Select files for any TNT product or process
- Georeference is supported when linking
Direct Use of DGN Files (*.dgn) ...
|
|
9 September 2008
Quick Guide: Convert Geotagged Image Locations to Vector
A new Quick Guide has been posted describing the
conversion of a geotagged image database to a vector object in TNT products. DID YOU KNOW . . . you can convert geotagged image database
pinmaps to a vector object with point elements?
What Converting Geotagged Image Locations to Vector Gives You:
- Create point elements in a vector object from a geotagged image database
- Keep direct attachments between the points and the digital images
- Generate point database for all pins
- Generate lines between successive points if desired
- Style pins by theme, attribute, or image thumbnail once in vector format
Convert Geotagged Image Locations to Vector ...
|
|
8 September 2008
U.S. 30-Meter Elevation Data (NED30)
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted that describes the 30-Meter U.S. Elevation DVD-DL distributed by MicroImages.
This DVD-DL provides elevation
data for the conterminous United States from the National Elevation Dataset
(NED) with a cell-size of 1 arc-second (approximately 30 meters). The NED has
been produced by the U.S. Geological Survey by merging the best quality elevation
data available across the United States. MicroImages acquired the data in 1
degree by 3 degree blocks, converted the elevation values from floating-point
meters to integer feet, mosaicked the blocks, and created a TNT hierarchical
tileset. The TNT tileset raster is linked to a set of uniformly-sized GeoJP2 files
stored in conveniently-sized subdirectories of a separate tileset directory. This
tileset structure is optimized to allow very fast display of the entire dataset in the
TNT products at any viewing scale. In addition, the small individual JP2 tile
files (2048 by 2048 cells) can be used in any other software program that supports
the JP2 format. Lossless JPEG2000 compression has been applied to preserve the
fidelity of the original data while reducing file sizes.
For related information,
see the following Technical Guides:
- Global 90-Meter Elevation Data (Global90)
- Spatial Display: Print Anaglyph Stereo Images
|
|
5 September 2008
Syncing with Google Earth
The TNT products provide a variety of ways to communicate with Google Earth.
One of these is the ability to synchronize the view position in Google Earth with that of any 2D or 3D view in the TNT products.
Controls for your view in Google Earth are provided when the synchronization option is on.
These controls let you set the zoom level of Google Earth relative to your view in TNT,
choose to display extents boxes for your TNT view and/or the full group in the color of your choice,
and turn on/off the MicroImages logo that indicates the center of your TNT view in Google Earth.
For more information on syncing Google Earth to your TNT view, see the 2008 New Features page entitled:
- Syncing with Google Earth
|
|
3 September 2008
Publish Georeferenced PDF Maps
Published Georeferenced PDF Maps
The TNT products can produce georeferenced PDFs for use with the geospatial features of Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9 products without the need for any other product. With a georeferenced PDF created by TNTmips 2008 and opened in Adobe Reader 9, you can view geospatial coordinates for the cursor position and zoom to locations you enter the coordinates of. Using the same georeferenced PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended, you can also make measurements, mark and annotate geolocations, and copy map coordinates to the clipboard for use in other applications. The addition of the free GeoPDF toolbar from TerraGo Technologies to Adobe Reader 9 lets you also make measurements in the free Reader application.
For more information on creating geospatial PDFs in TNTmips and their use in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9 products, see the 2008 New Features page entitled: :
- Render to Geospatial PDF
|
|
2 September 2008
Print Stereo Maps
Your TNT 2008 product can be used to automatically display any accurately
georeferenced image in color stereo. While viewing the image, simply select the stereo
icon and use your stereo viewing device, such as color anaglyph glasses. You can also
create and print map or poster layouts with color anaglyph stereo views of your images
and display or distribute the printed map for public viewing with disposable anaglyph glasses.
To allow you to create your stereo view of any image, TNT 2008 ships with two
elevation DVDs and a pair of anaglyph glasses. One DVD-DL provides a 90-meter seamless
elevation raster of most of the world?s land area including northern Canada and Alaska.
It can be used with images of 10-meter resolution or less detail. It can even provide
stereo views of 1-meter images. The second DVD is a seamless 30-meter elevation raster
of the 48 conterminous United States for stereo viewing of higher-resolution images
(2-meter or smaller cell size). If you have access to a higher-resolution local
elevation raster, it can be substituted to improve the automatically-created stereo detail.
For more information on printing stereo maps using MicroImages DEMs,
see the following Technical Guides:
- Global 90-Meter Elevation Data (Global90)
- U.S. 30-Meter Elevation Data (NED30)
- Spatial Display: Print Anaglyph Stereo Images
|
|
28 August 2008
Global 90-Meter Elevation Data (Global90)
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted that describes the 90-Meter Global Elevations DVD-DL distributed by MicroImages.
This DVD-DL provides elevation
data for all continental areas between 60 degrees north latitude and 56 degrees
south latitude plus arctic Canada and Alaska. This dataset was built around the
latest version of NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation
data posted by the US Geological Survey, which corrects a half-cell registration
error in the earlier USGS version. MicroImages imported this revised SRTM
data and filled local voids related to poor radar returns (chiefly water bodies
and steep mountain slopes facing away from the sensor) using elevation values
from corresponding cells in the earlier void-filled SRTM dataset produced under
the auspices of the Consultative Group for International Agriculture (CGIAR)
Consortium for Spatial Information (CSI). MicroImages also added coverage
for northern Alaska (from U.S. National Elevation Dataset) and northern Canada
(Canadian Digital Elevation Data). These data were mosaicked and converted to a
TNT hierarchical tileset. The TNT tileset raster is linked to a set of uniformly-sized
GeoJP2 files stored in conveniently-sized subdirectories of a separate tileset directory.
This tileset structure is optimized to allow very fast display of the entire dataset in the TNT
products at any viewing scale. In addition, the small individual JP2 tile files (2048 by 2048 cells) can be used in any other software
program that supports the JP2 format. The data are in geographic (latitude-longitude) coordinates with 3 arc-second cell size
(about 90 meters at the equator) referenced to the WGS84 horizontal datum. Lossless JPEG2000 compression has been applied to
preserve the fidelity of the original data while reducing file sizes.
|
|
26 August 2008
Quick Look - Inspect an LAS File
LAS files, which are a public format for the storage and exchange of LIDAR point data, can be directly displayed in the TNTmips Display process.
You can view the metadata contained in the file header by opening the Metadata Viewer and Editor window from the layer's right mouse button menu in the Display Manager.
The LAS header includes file creation date, generating software, number of point records and number of points by return.
For more information on LIDAR data in TNT Products, please see the following Technical Guides:
- Use LAS LIDAR Point Files as Shape Objects
- Point Profile Tool
Also see:
- Announcement: Recent LIDAR Activities
|
|
25 August 2008
TNT Products Application: Tourism Planning (2-sided)
A new product application page surveys the use of the TNT products in Tourism Planning.
TNTmips provides powerfull tools for managing spatial materials for tourism planning to identify tourism opportunities, develop diverse types
of natural and cultural attractions, tourism infrastructure and provide tourism services. With GIS, image processing, 2D/3D visualisation and
geospatial analysis tools, TNTmips help tourism planners create, modify, and analyze spatial data to plan tourism developments, monitor
their implementation and impact on economy, environment, and culture.
Tourism Planning (2-sided)
|
|
20 August 2008
Quick Look - Dragging Nodes
The 2008 Editor provides automatic reshaping of lines connected to a node you are repositioning.
You determine the percentage of the line length you want reshaped and the vertices are adjusted linearly with a scale determined by
their distance from the repositioned node. When the line length is set to 100%, all the vertices are repositioned.
When the line length is set to 0%, the node is connected to the nearest vertex by a straight line.
For more information on editing vectors, see the following tutorials:
- Editing Vector Geodata
- Advanced Vector Editing
|
|
19 August 2008
TNT Products Application: Planning Tourism Events (2-sided)
A new product application page surveys the use of the TNT products in Planning Tourism Events. TNTmips provides a variety of tools for managing spatial materials for
event planning from selecting the event site to organizing the physical
arrangement of booths, stands, stages etc. With GIS, 2D/3D
visualization and geospatial analysis tools, TNTmips helps event
planners plan, organize, promote, operate and evaluate tourism
events.
TNTmips also provides a variety of data publishing methods
such as hardcopy printing, PDF creation, online mapping, electronic
atlases, Google Earth overlays, and 3D simulations to assist in using
your spatial information to promote, publicize and manage your events.
Planning Tourism Events (2-sided)
|
|
|
|
15 August 2008
A New Documentation Category: Quick Look
MicroImages is working on a new type of documentation called Quick Look. A Quick Look page provides a graphic introduction to new features in the TNT products. Look for upcoming Technical Guides to provide more details on these features.
The sample on the left shows the new capability of "Editing in Stereo" which was added to version 2008:74 recently. When you have a stereo image on your Spatial Editor, the process will automatically get the elevation values from the surface and create your vector in 3D using those values.
|
|
14 August 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new 2-page feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new functionality of Syncing with Google Earth in TNT products. The TNT products provide a variety of ways to communicate with Google Earth. The newest method in your TNT product lets you synchronize Google Earth to view the same area as your 2D and 3D views. When you reposition or zoom your view, the new view information is sent to Google Earth and its position and zoom are adjusted to match.
This method is activated by turning on the Zoom Google Earth to Match View icon in the View window. This method lets you see Google Earth's representation of the area you are viewing in TNT. To view your TNT layers in Google Earth, use the Render To KML feature in the TNT Display process or the Export to KML process.
Syncing with Google Earth ...
|
|
13 August 2008
Display speed is phenomenal
[Client email from USA]
The speed of display is phenomenal given the size of the dataset and fact that it is run through [i.e., from] an external drive [USB drive]. The Nevada MrSIDs [county files] take around 40-60 seconds to display on my beefed up laptop!
[These comments refer to display of a single multifile raster object will 8192 by 8192 JP2 tiles compressed 15 to 1 (~60 Gb). The single image covers all of Nevada in 24 bit color at 1 meter resolution (uncompressed ~800 Gb).]
[The MrSID display noted above is for a smaller county sized file being displayed from the USB attached drive. These county files in MrSID format are also compressed 15 to 1 and were used to build the single multifile raster object of the state.]
[The clients comments refer to a display time on his portable from this file of about 1 second at any scale and without any caching. If the multifile raster of the Nevada state coverage was on the hard drive the display time would be reduced to .3 seconds at any scale and without caching. This identical Nevada multfile raster object can be viewed at any scale in seconds via the TNTserver at www.microimages.com/TNTmap/StateOrtho2.htm.
Client Testimonials ...
|
|
12 August 2008
Industry News...
Affordable Geotagging Camera
Take high resolution geotagged photos for use in the TNT products for US$500 using Nikon's Coolpix P6000, announced at 8 August 2008. This long-awaited camera has
- Built-in GPS receiver
- 13.5 megapixels (4224 by 3168 pixels)
- Supports RAW format
- 4X wide-angle zoom with optical stabilization
- Built-in ethernet connector
Nikon web site ...
|
|
11 August 2008
Interest Growing [from Germany]
[email from an International Reseller]
The [a name] fair has been quite a success for us. First of all it is worth to mention that for the first time our booth was as large as the booth of ESRI. In the past ESRI used to cover around 15 to 20 sq m on the [fair's] floor and more than 300 sq m on the [exposition's]. , while we always book 5 sq m for the [fair] (like ESRI did this year) and up to 18 sq m on the [exposition]. Their booth has been empty of visitors and staff most of the time, no lights, no [language] materials. Quite good for us. See attached materials.
We have had some promising discussions with people already using Geomedia and ESRI products. And we have had a great feedback from those already using TNT products and know the ESRI products as well. Most of them prefer to do their work with TNT products!
On the [fair] we have met with [2 client names] who are both heavily using the TNTmips SAL [Special Academic License]. It is [a name] who now wants to extent the TNTmips SAL to 10 seats. One reason is the free use of TNTserver.
The interest in the TNT products seem to grow. One reason might be that after more than 10 years of GIS usage in authorities and engineering companies the staff is more experienced and can now understand what TNT really offers. [The expositions noted here are a national fair and European exposition focused upon geospatial activities.]
Client Testimonials ...
|
|
6 August 2008
TNT Products Application: Environmental Planning (2-sided)
A new product application page surveys the use of the TNT products in Environmental Planning. TNTmips provides powerful spatial analysis tools that can assist you in
addressing wide variety of environmental issues such as soil and slope
analysis, watershed analysis, landuse and ground water protection,
ecological assestment for vegetation, wetlands and habitats, air quality,
energy etc. With GIS, image processing, 2D/3D visualisation and geospatial
analysis tools, TNTmips enhances understanding and analysis of the
environment, related hydrological, geological and ecological systems, and
human development.
TNTmips also supports collaborative environmental
management by providing a variety of data publishing methods such as
creating electronic atlases, Google Earth overlays, and 3D simulations.
Environmental Planning (2-sided)
|
|
|
|
5 August 2008
Mineral Resources Map of East Asia created in TNTmips [from Japan]
The Geological Survey of Japan, AIST has recently published a Mineral
Resources Map of East Asia 1:3,000,000 which "was mostly processed by TNTmips"
according to an email from an international reseller.
This map consists of two large sheets (109 by 79 cm) that show
approximately 3,200 mineral deposits. Symbol shape and color depict the
metal or mineral content and symbol size denotes the relative importance of the
deposit. Fill colors depict the age and general category of exposed rock units
and hatch overlays indicate more specific rock types. Major faults are also
mapped. The map base includes hydrographic features and major place names.
The Mineral Resources Map of East Asia is available for purchase from
the Geological Survey of Japan:
http://www.gsj.jp/Map/EN/new-maps.htm ...
|
|
|
|
4 August 2008
Direct Editing and Creation of Shapefiles (2-sided)
A new 2-page Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted that describes how you can use the
Spatial Data Editor to directly create or edit shapefiles.
When you select a shapefile for direct editing, changes are updated to the linked shapefile
as they are made. When creating a new shapefile, you are
prompted to select a shapefile and you click on
the new file button and name it at that time.
Direct Editing and Creation of Shapefiles (2-sided) ...
|
|
1 August 2008
TNTserver: Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Specifications
A new 2-page Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted that summarizes the current status of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service specifications and the support for them in TNTserver.
TNTserver supports all of the mandatory operations in the current OGC specifications for the core web service capabilities: Web Map Service, Web Features Service, and Web Coordinate Transformation Service.
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Specifications ...
|
|
31 July 2008
Language update for Italian 2008:74
The language interface package for Italian has been posted for 2008:74. 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.
|
|
30 July 2008
Quick Guide: Create PDF Files from Map Layouts
A new Quick Guide for 2008:74 has been posted describing how you can create a PDF file from your group or layout.
What Creating PDF Files from Map Layouts Gives You:
- Match the extents of any open 2D or 3D View window or match the inclusive
extents of all layers in a view
- Choose to link to system fonts, embed fonts, or render text
- Set the coordinate accuracy for raster cells and geometric elements in PDF file
- Control visibility of group(s) and spatial objects individually in Acrobat
Create PDF Files from Map Layouts ...
|
|
29 July 2008
Geological Map of Central Asia created in TNTmips [from Japan]
The Geological Survey of Japan, AIST has recently published a Geological Map of Central Asia 1:3,000,000 which "was mostly processed by TNTmips" according to an email from an international reseller.
This map consists of two large sheets (109 by 79 cm) with colors depicting the age and general category of exposed rock units and hatch overlays indicating more specific rock types. Major faults are also mapped. The map base includes hydrographic features and major place names.
The Geological Map of Central Asia is available for purchase from the Geological Survey of Japan:
http://www.gsj.jp/Map/EN/new-maps.htm ...
|
|
28 July 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new Inline Image Filtering capability.
You are familiar with TNT viewing that provides fast, on-the-fly application of contrast enhancements, color palettes, CRS reconciliation, cell-size resampling, and other transformations independently
to each raster layer. Using the raster pipeline processing introduced in 2008, standard or custom spatial filters can now also be applied on-the-fly to any or all raster layers in a View in
Display and in other TNT processes. In addition, using pipelining, multithreading, and multiple cores, this image sharpening and the other transformations can even be efficiently applied when you pan the View.
Inline Image Filtering ...
|
|
25 July 2008
Describing a project [from Australia]
[email from an International Reseller]
If the system becomes as extensive as planned, I would see us needing one TNTserver per operating region, which would mean 7 more as a minimum and a number of other product licenses depending on what level the operators are asked to go to. We are getting our client interface under control and enjoying the simplicity of communication with TNTserver.
The stability of TNTserver is superb by the way, especially with the challenges we present it with at times. As well as drawing layers from the TNTserver machine, we are also running a PostGIS server alongside it where we are storing certain derived layers for reporting purposes. Basically that means we dump attribute data from derived layers to PostGIS and then use our interface or crystal reports (an in house version they run) to turn those into usable reports for the team.
The main reason I raise this is because if ever your team needed congratulations on a part of the TNTmips package, it has to be for the PostGIS import/export functions. We have never, ever had an issue with that function, it simply works every time. It probably sounds a little trite, but we pass a lot of data, typically in exports, through this function without incident. That sort of usability is why we love this software.
[describes part of a project being installed by the Reseller]
Client Testimonials ...
|
|
24 July 2008
Quick Guide: Render WMS/ArcIMS Layers to KML or KMZ
A new Quick Guide for 2008:74 has been posted describing you can create a KML or a KMZ file from your group /layout that contains Web Map Service (WMS) or ArcIMS layer(s).
What Rendering WMS/ArcIMS Layers to KML or KMZ Gives You:
- A KML or KMZ file that stores WMS/ArcIMS layer(s) with the other content of the group/layout
- Store WMS/ArcIMS layer(s) in a KML/KMZ file as network links or local images
- Automatic update of the dynamic WMS/ArcIMS layer when its content changes
- Adjust automatically calculated cell size, and the format of the local images
Render WMS/ArcIMS Layers to KML or KMZ ...
|
|
23 July 2008
Switching TNTmips from 32-bit to 64-bit Mac OS X
[from email received in July of 2008]
I must admit I am VERY impressed with the 64 bit version of TNTmips. I run it on a Dual-Quad MacPro [i.e. 8 Intel cores] with 16 GB RAM it really flies. I am also an ENVI/IDL user and will probably stop using this software and move totally into TNTmips. I just love the way you can flip from a window to Google Earth as well - really cool!! As a test of the 64- bit version I ran Watersheds on the SRTM DEM of Australia and TNTmips completed the job in hours extracting watersheds and drainage lines at 250K-scale. I have never been able to do something like this before.
I am a very happy TNTmips user at the moment. [additional comments from the same party above but directed to a long time TNTmips user who recommended the package]
I downloaded the 64-bit version of TNTmips on the weekend and it's AWESOME!!. The performance improvements are amazing and the ability to process essentially any size data sets is mind blowing. It is incredible to play around with the global SRTM data set you gave me in realtime!! Thanks for letting me know it was available - will check the TNTmips site more regularly.
PS. I was able to extract all the watersheds for Australia in a few hours processing although I am going to re-do it with salt-lake mask and even smaller basin sizes.
Client Testimonials ...
|
|
22 July 2008
Quick Guide: Node Tables with Computed Fields
A new Quick Guide for 2008:74 has been posted describing the creation of Node Tables with Computed Fields in TNT products. DID YOU KNOW . . . you can create tables for nodes that draw information from other tables in the same vector object?
What Creating Node Tables with Computed Fields Gives You:
- Node element numbers without exposing internal tables
- Element information for lines attached to nodes
- Automatic creation of table that includes records for all nodes
- Add as many fields as desired with computed or direct entry values
Node Tables with Computed Fields ...
|
|
21 July 2008
Switching a TNT shop to Mac OS X.
[from a Fax received in June 2008]
We have also been working out our hardware pathways and have taken stock of your earlier thoughts and will be moving our primary developments and GIS processing to Mac's over future cycles. We are maintaining our Sun partnership for database servers and java development tools, and their recent acquisition of MySQL also fits our picture nicely. We no longer rely on Windows interoperability with clients, particularly when systems are delivered as managed services. Of course Windows remains present for TNTserver and the like, but is certainly facing a diminished capacity going forward. [a name] out lead development chap is arranging new MacBooks for the development team with quicker processors just released. We will finally start seeing iPhones here by the end of the year, at which point we will finally be able to get further mileage from the iPhone demo of yours. Where we have shown it in presentations [using the browser simulation at microimages.com/iTNTmap/simulate.htm] the inevitable question of 'can be get that now' arises, so being able to say yes will be grand.
In the meantime TNTmips 2008:74 is looking good. We are impressed with speed in general, though we have had some speed issues at random during script processes. ... I've noticed that the graphics acceleration issue with the windows desktop background has disappeared, meaning a really good look for demonstrations, and in general there's a nicer feel to the interface with menu fonts, buttons etc looking the same across all machines Oddly in previous versions there have been minor differences machine to machine with no apparent source so it's looking good.
Client Testimonials ...
|
|
18 July 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new 2-page feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the five years of 1 - and 2-meter imagery of the USA available for your view. MicroImages has used the Mosaic process released in TNTmips 2008:74 to assemble and publish web-based, 1- or 2-meter color image coverage of the lower 48 US states for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. All these images are published on the Internet as WMS layers using a single TNTserver.
The principal purpose of these materials is to demonstrate the robust nature of MicroImages' WMS and WFS TNTserver product and the kinds of clients that can be created to use it. Your 2008 TNT desktop products can also make direct use of these images in any TNT view. When you choose to add a WMS layer to your view, the Favorites tabbed panel automatically provides you access to the list of all these five years of state images. If you are conducting a project in these states, you might add one of these 1- or 2-meter color images to your view for a wide variety of purposes: viewing them in Google Earth, checking an area to determine if it has changed over five years, correcting an existing map, or directly creating a new geospatial layer.
View Five Years of 1- and 2-Meter Imagery of the USA ...
|
|
17 July 2008
Discussing a spatial vehicle management system.
[email received in April 2008]
Overall, it's looking good and is nearly ready to be treated as a package for resale. However, we need to consider the components of that and the scale of the system. [Our first installation] experience has shown us that hardware and software need to be well balanced to make a successful implementation. At present the system is running on two large servers, one doing the web serving and one providing the data and running back-end processes. One TNTserver distributes all to the clients, and that is working hard but performing admirably.
Having said that we are pushing a lot of data per day, and once the system is rolled out to all end users, there is a realistic need for separate servers per region. That may seem somewhat over zealous, but controlling cached data and its advantages to rich-client apps is important with semi real-time data. Processing via TNTmips is excellent, but even on a decent processing machine the amount of overnight processes really need to be split amongst multiple machines by task. Realistically an ideal spec for a [name] style system for one of the large [national] companies would be 5-6 TNTservers and about the same of TNTmips.
Client Testimonials ...
|
|
16 July 2008
System: Use LAS LIDAR Point Files as Shape Objects
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new ability to use LAS LIDAR Point Files as Shape Objects in TNT products. The LAS file format is a public format for the storage and exchange of LIDAR point data. These binary files store point coordinates, intensity values, and other LIDAR-specific attributes for raw or processed LIDAR points. LAS files can be used to store varied types of LIDAR point data, from raw swath points for individual flight lines to final processed, aggregated, and spatially-tiled data.
An LAS file representing a single flight strip may contain tens of millions of LIDAR points and associated attributes. The TNT products allow you to simultaneously view and use many of these huge LAS files without the need for a separate time-consuming import procedure. When you choose a particular LAS file for the first time for use in any TNT process, you are prompted to provide the appropriate coordinate reference system parameters (if they are absent in the LAS file) and to build a search table (which is required for efficient display and selection of the points).
Use LAS LIDAR Point Files as Shape Objects ...
|
|
15 July 2008
Announcement: Recent LIDAR Activities
Recently we have been adding features to TNT that relate to the analysis of LIDAR imagery as it is delivered from the collection system in the form of a point file in the LIDAR format. We are beginning to gradually work in these new features in consultation with one of our resellers that owns and flies (helicopter or fixed wing) a high resolution, low altitude LIDAR that gets many ground points per square meter for detail site analysis.
The following new features have just been added at the last minute into 2008:74 via the weekly releases system:
- We can link to and edit Arc-Shape files as a shape object. An LAS file is essentially a flat database file with many point records (like a pinmap). The shape object linking approach is now also used to link to an LAS file and view it without importing it. Eventually special LIDAR point editing tools will be needed. This link is very fast, has access to all the data in each point's record, supports the latest LAS 1.2 file specification release in April. Net result is that you can display and use LAS point clouds or flight strips in directly in the TNT products.
- The next tool that has been added is a point profile tool. It permits a rectangular box tool to be positioned at any orientation on a 2d display of multiple LAS files (i.e., multiple flight strips) and opens a profile view of the LAS points in a new window. This tool is used to inspect the LAS point data anywhere. For example, it will be used to adjust the data in 1 flight strip up or down to match the points in its overlap area with those of and adjacent, overlapping flight strip - this operation is called 'line leveling' and is used to bring all the flight strips to a common elevation reference. The technical guide on point profile tool has been posted.
- We have modified the terrain analysis tools (surface fitting) so that they will use shape objects, thus the LAS file. We found that the TIN process was operating only in real memory and this limited the number of points it could process. We have now changes this so that hard drive buffering is used as LIDAR point clouds can get very large.
The next activities planned are to provide Focal Plane or trend surface filtering functionality to be used in an SML script applied to a minimum curvature raster created from the ground or last echo point. The objective is to slice out isolated buildings from the minimum curvature result (does not work in urban areas) leaving holes where they and other similar features occur and then to surface fit again to fill these holes.
Eventually, implementing these kinds of new features will have to be switched to the development version of TNTmips 2009 very soon. The objective is to gradually implement the tools in TNTmips and some SML scripts to do custom LIDAR processing.
The LIDAR point in each LAS record has an echo number for which hit it is. If it makes multiple hits (tree tops, then branches, then brush, then ground there are a sequence of point records. If only a single hit is recorded it might mean a ground point or a building or a very dense canopy. Elsewhere in the point's record are data fields that can subsequently be filled in by to classify each hit (record) as to what is it is likely to represent. For example, if building are filtered out as noted above using a raster then later those points can be classified and building points (i.e., the LAS record for the point is modified. The techniques for classifying points can be manual, semi-automatic, or automatic with varying degrees of accuracy. We will subsequently work on this problem.
Given this information and MicroImages' possible feature developments on LIDAR processing area, we would like to assess the possible global interest on similar functionalities. Therefore, if you have any interest for LIDAR operations, please contact MicroImages by email at info@microimages.com and let us know your topics of interest.
|
|
14 July 2008
Spatial Display: Point Profile Tool
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new Point Profile Tool in TNT products. The Point Profile tool creates a vertical profile of 3D points falling within the rectangular area you designate in the View window. This tool is designed for use with points in one or more 3D vector or shape objects, including LIDAR points in linked LAS files.
The Point Profile allows you to visualize the 3D relationships of the points and provides several methods for manually marking points or groups of points within the profile; these points are then automatically marked in the View window as well. Points manually marked in the tool's active area in the View are also marked in the Point Profile. The Point Profile tool is available in every geospatial view in the TNT products, including the TNT Editor, where its marking capabilities can be used for selecting points for editing or deletion.
Point Profile Tool ...
|
|
11 July 2008
Few systems actually integrate spatial data!
[from client FAX received in April 2008]
While in Australia I spent some time at the CeBit conference in Sydney and found that an interesting experience. What continues to surprise me is the lack of use of spatial data out there. Various people are adding Google mash-ups to their systems to give the impressions of spatial, but it seems the wider business community still doesn't have their head around it. The good thing about that is that the opportunities are great in this area, especially where TNTmips is concerned. I guess one of the key points is that those who have tried going spatial have had no real success by a combination of not knowing what it is or what they want and the levels of investment required to implement spatial data in house. To this end many seem to have tried ArcGIS on the desktop with little success, and the single biggest barrier being the masses of data, but in no standard format. When faced with that with only ArcGIS on hand, you'll never get past the fact that it can't pull all the data together.
It's hard not to get evangelistic about TNTmips and its remarkable capacity for dealing with almost any type of data. Then if you can deliver the data you integrate via one distribution channel (TNTserver) that also gives much flexibility in output to varying clients, it all suddenly seems easy. Supplying that capability to businesses without requiring GIS professionals in-house continues to be an ideal option, especially given clear returns on the bottom line. Makes one wonder why there aren't more people doing it. Then again, could you if you didn't have a TNTmips? I think the answer is right there - if you are trying to use MapInfo or ArcGIS to do this, how do you deal with so many types of data when you can only import/export or link to a select few data types? Simple, you can't without developing your own tools to do so, raising the costs and dropping the returns, let alone the impacts on time to roll-out etc.
I've said it before and I think visiting thousands of system builders displaying their wares has highlighted once more that the flexibility afforded by TNTmips and the other products opens a big market opportunity, one we will certainly continue to follow.
Client Testimonials ...
|
|
10 July 2008
System: Use and Export BigTIFF Files
The Technical Guide for 2008:74 illustrating the Use and Export BigTIFF Files has been updated due to recent library and method changes. BigTIFF is a proposed extension to the TIFF format that enables this open, multi-purpose file format to support image files that greatly exceed 4 GB in size (see the box to the right for technical details). All bitdepths, datatypes, compression modes, and standard tags (including georeference information) in the regular TIFF/ GeoTIFF format are also supported in BigTIFF.
If you want to import a BigTIFF file to the MicroImages Project File format, you can choose BigTIFF, GeoTIFF, or TIFF from the format list in the Import process. On import or direct use, BigTIFF files are recognized automatically from information in the file header and file reading adjusts accordingly. The Export process, on the other hand, requires that you explicitly choose to export to BigTIFF rather than standard TIFF format. Choosing BigTIFF from the format list automatically turns on the Export as BigTIFF toggle on the Export Parameters window that is comon to all varieties of the TIFF format.
Use and Export BigTIFF Files ...
|
|
09 July 2008
Comments on version 2008
[from client FAX received in April 2008]
I guess I've already started extolling the virtues of the software above, however we are all settled in with 7.4 now and enjoying it greatly. The first release we ran was good, but we had some script performance issues that were quickly resolved with a newer patch. Everyone commented on one of the simplest features - having the reposition tool default in the displays. The whole team loves that and one is left with the feeling the display function is easier to use all round which is interesting comment on how ingrained the reposition type tool is in spatial software in general.
Performance benchmarks show us more improvement again with 7.4 and that's great. ...Other than that we couldn't be happier. All our current processes work flawlessly and it seems one of the most error free and stable releases yet. Congratulations!
Client Testimonials ...
|
|
08 July 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new 2-page feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new functionality of stereo viewing of georeferenced imagery. Stereo viewing is available in every 2D View in any TNT process and the results are almost instantaneous, so you can pan and zoom the stereo View just as you do with any 2D View. In the TNT edit process you can modify the elements in a 2D or 3D geometric layer while viewing your reference imagery in stereo.
To convert any View into stereo simply select the Stereo icon from the View toolbar in any TNT process and select either the global or USA elevation raster objects provided by MicroImages. The imagery in the View will be converted almost instantly to anaglyph stereo or the stereo format selected for your viewing device. The elevation raster object you select automatically becomes the default for any other stereo viewing you choose to use in any new TNT View.
View Any Georeferenced Image in Stereo ...
|
|
07 July 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new functionality of Interpret/Draw/Edit Directly on Screen with Tablet PCs and Pen Displays. Combining TNTmips with a Tablet PC or a pen display allows you to edit your geodata directly on the display screen using a pen stylus. Since you draw directly on the screen with the stylus to control the cursor position, these devices provide a natural and intuitive interface for drawing and editing.
Wacom (www.wacom.com) makes pen displays ranging from 12 to 23 inches (measured diagonally) that can be used in single or multiple-monitor setups with Windows and Mac OS X systems. Tablet PCs provide the advantage of portability, allowing use in the office or in the field. Windows Vista and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition include direct support for on-screen stylus control. For Wacom pen displays running on Windows XP or Mac OS X, the pen interface is provided by an installed driver. The TNT products also support the use of a pen stylus for drawing with graphics tablets, such as the cordless Wacom Graphire Bluetooth tablet.
Interpret/Draw/Edit Directly on Screen with Tablet PCs and Pen Displays ...
|
|
3 July 2008
July 4th - Independence Day
Independence Day is a federal holiday in the United States.
MicroImages offices will be closed on Friday, July 4th.
|
|
2 July 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the updates to Watershed Geomorphology process in TNT products. The new features added are described in multiple Technical Guides provided via MicroImages NEWS as post-release TNTmips 2007 features and are included here along with additional new features for TNTmips 2008. These include:
- Many internal improvements to allow efficient watershed processing of very large DEMs (many gigagbytes in size).
- Faster and more flexible depression-filling with thresholds to restrict filling by depression area and depth (also available as separate process).
- Let depression-filling routine automatically place null cell (drain) at low point of unfilled depressions to model their internal drainage.
- Compute geomorphic characteristics of DEM: specific catchment area, Compound Topographic Index (wetness), downstream and maximum upstream flow distances.
- Compute hydrologic attributes for stream segments: average slope, sinuosity, upstream and downstream flow distances, and many others.
- Compute hydrologic attributes for catchment polygons: mean stream slope, drainage density, basin relief, and many others.
Watershed Geomorphology ...
|
|
1 July 2008
Another Enhancement in TNTmips 2008!
A new feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the Integrated Network Access to Reference Materials in TNT products. This feature allows access to MicroImages most recent reference materials is now available from microimages.com in your TNT product. This documentation access includes all the Tutorials, Technical Guides, Quick Guides, and news items. Using the built-in site search options you can directly search these materials for topics of interest.
New important technical reference materials are published frequently as MicroImages news. Periodically when you start up your TNT product you are informed and provided direct access to all the news that you have not yet reviewed. TNTmips is a complex and constantly evolving product and it is important to review the new Technical Guides as they come out to be aware of all the new features available to you in the current release edition or in the new development version.
Integrated Network Access to Reference Materials ...
|
|
30 June 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new 2-page feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new Links to Google Earth functionality in TNT products. Publishing a KML or KMZ file of your geospatial analyses is an effective means of distributing them for public use. KML/KMZ files can be layouts containing and describing a combination of raster, geometric, and simple database tables. Version 2008 of the TNT products now provides a variety of methods for moving these layouts to and from internal formats for creation, revision, analysis, or viewing.
Any TNT object (vector, CAD, shape, or raster) or any linked file format can be exported to a KML/ KMZ file. A KML/KMZ layout can be imported into TNT objects. Since you are selecting a layout format the import may create separate raster, CAD or vector objects, and one attribute table per element type depending upon the complexity in the KML/KMZ file. Your TNT product can create complex display layouts for reuse or map and image layouts for printing. These layouts can be rendered into KML/KMZ, SVG, and PDF/GeoPDF layouts.
Links to Google Earth ...
|
|
27 June 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new 2-page feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new Render to PDF and GeoPDF functionality in TNT products. Render to in the TNT products means to convert the contents of your map or layout or the components of a complex view into some other layout format. PDF, KML/KMZ, and SVG are all examples of layout formats that can be rendered by the TNT products.
GeoPDF is a specification becoming more widely used that georeferences the components making up a PDF layout. Every component used in a complex TNT display or map layout can be georeferenced. These components can include everything ranging from inserts to legends, even labels. A complex layout can be rendered with layer control into a PDF and converted to a GeoPDF.
Render to PDF and GeoPDF ...
|
|
26 June 2008
Language update for Romanian 2008:74
The language interface package for Romanian has been posted for 2008:74. 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.
|
|
25 June 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new 2-page feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new Streamlined Spatial Data Editor in TNT products. The TNT spatial data Editor has been modified to use the panning, Locator view, maps and images from the Internet, and other 2008 modifications to TNT viewing.
You can create or edit a linked shape layer, such as a shapefile. If you are frequently tracing around curved and complex shapes in an image, you can now draw smoother and faster and erase errors on the 23" WACOM stylus sensitive monitor or your Widows Tablet PC. The user interface has been improved in many areas using drop down vertical panels thus fewer viewer windows, improved icons and keyboard eqivalents, and others.
Streamlined Spatial Data Editor ...
|
|
24 June 2008
New Technical Guide
A new technical guide for 2008:74 has been posted describing the Sync Google Earth with 2D and 3D Views functionality in TNT products. The Zoom Google Earth to Match View icon in TNT 2D and 3D views not only opens Google Earth zoomed up to the location of your current view, but repositions and zooms your Google Earth view to match changes in your TNT view.
When you open Google Earth using this method, a TNT Placemark symbol is positioned in Google Earth at the center of your current TNT view. When Google Earth is launched from a 3D view, the elevation and orientation are also maintained. Changes in zoom level or position in TNT 2D views are reflected in Google Earth as soon as they are made.
Sync Google Earth with 2D and 3D Views ...
|
|
23 June 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new 2-page feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new Hierarchical Tileset Rasters in TNT products. A hierarchical tileset is a directory of uniformly sized files called tiles stored in conveniently sized subdirectories. A single TNT tileset raster object is linked to this directory structure functioning just as links to other raster file formats.
This link file contains the internal pyramid layers needed for the lower resolution uses of the full-resolution base tileset (e.g., zooming out). This assembly functions as a single raster object in your TNT activities. If the individual tile files in the base tileset are in a format that has an internal pyramid concept, such as *.jp2, these pyramids are automatically used and are not duplicated in the link file.
A tileset raster object can be displayed in a TNT product at any scale and projection in less than 1 second from a hard drive connected using USB 2, Firewire 400 or 800, eSATA, or an internal hard drive. Similarly, a tileset raster object can be viewed at any scale and projection from CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray media in 1 or 2 seconds.
Hierarchical Tileset Rasters ...
|
|
20 June 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new 2-page feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new WMS and ArcIMS Layers functionality in TNT products. To use these web-centric map and image layers you must first locate them. To successfully publish these layers, WMS and ArcIMS services must respond to a standardized request for its layers. These standardized responses contain the title, geographic extents, and other characteristics of every layer they are publishing.
MicroImages has a web agent program that launches daily web searches to identify and monitor web sites publishing maps and images using a WMS or ArcIMS service. It then interrogates each WMS or ArcIMS and builds a catalog of the map and image layers they are currently publishing. This catalog is updated continuously and maintained online for use in all the TNT products. There are currently 1,400,000 layers indexed in MicroImages’ WMS and ArcIMS catalogs.
Locating WMS and ArcIMS Layers ...
|
|
19 June 2008
New Technical Guide
A new technical guide for 2008:74 has been posted describing the Tileset creation and linking functionality in TNT products. A tileset is a set of uniformly-sized image files called tiles that are stored in a predefined structure designed for efficient viewing of very large images. Google Maps, Google Earth, Open Layers, and the TNT products use tilesets for this purpose.
In a TNT tileset, the tile files can be GeoJP2, GeoTIFF, or PNG files, and a single TNT tileset raster object links simultaneously to the entire set of external tile files. A TNT tileset is the most efficient means for storing and displaying a large raster dataset up to terabytes in size, especially when you are publishing them on the web using TNTserver.
Automatically Create and Link to a Tileset ...
|
|
18 June 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new 2-page feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new Real-Time Panning functionality in TNT products. TNT 2008 products provide real-time panning in all 2D views in TNTmips, TNTedit, TNTview, and TNTatlas. You can also pan 90% of the view in any direction using the arrow keys.
If your computer can not sustain real-time panning, your TNT view will appear to use back-fill panning. This condition may result when you attempt to pan too fast (use the Locator to jump your view), use vector objects that are not optimized, direct display of slow historical formats such as JPEG, using a network or Internet sourced layer, and other similar factors. If your real-time panning of local layers is slow and automatically reverts to backfill panning, you may wish to consider a more powerful computer and/or await further developments from MicroImages.
Real-Time Panning ...
|
|
17 June 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new 2-page feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new Locator View, Locator Window and Thumbnail Images in Legends in TNT products.
The Legend portion of your TNT display now provides a Locator view to replace the use of scroll bars. It can be used to visually reposition and resize the contents of your main view to any feature of interest.
The Locator window serves the same repositioning and zoom in objectives as the Locator view. However, it is a separate window and can be open and used even if you have elected not to include the Legend and the Locator view in your display window(s).
Each raster in a view can now be shown in the Legend as a synoptic, or thumbnail view of the raster along with its name. This little view of the shape, color, and null areas of the raster can help you determine if it is the correct layer and its contribution to your current composite view.
Locator View ...
|
|
16 June 2008
New in TNTmips 2008!
A new 2-page feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new WMS and ArcIMS Catalogs in TNT products. TNT products provide catalogs to assist you in your search and evaluation. A Web Map Service Selection and ArcIMS Service Selection window provide access to these catalogs. They also provide tools to search all these layers to find those of particular interest to you and your project.
Using these tabbed panels and tools, you can search for layers by place name; coverage of a geographic area, which can be defined by the current view or group, or using a located place and buffer distance; and by layer title or service keywords (WMS only). Your first searches may return many layers from multiple services. These results can be further refined by repeated use of the search tools. Any layer can be previewed before you add it to your composite view. As you find services of interest, you can add them to your Favorites list for direct selection and future reuse.
Using MicroImages’ WMS and ArcIMS Catalogs ...
|
|
13 June 2008
Brand New in TNTmips 2008!
A new feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the brand new Geometrically-Derived Buffer Zones in TNT products. Buffering selected geometric elements in earlier TNT releases computed the buffer zones based on a rasterization approach. In effect a raster buffer was constructed around each element. Its boundary was created and topologically reconciled, if required, with the buffer boundaries of other selected elements. This raster buffering method, labeled as the ’approximate method’, is ineffective for the creation of narrow buffer zones.
Geometric buffering has been implemented in version 2008 of the TNT products as an alternative buffering mechanism and labeled as the ’accurate method’. It can be used interchangeably with the faster, rasterized buffering of elements in any geometric object. However, geometric buffering will produce accurate narrow buffer zones such as curb setbacks, line thickening, cartographic representation of stream banks and road edges from lines, and storm drain pipe widths from lines.
Geometrically-Derived Buffer Zones ...
|
|
12 June 2008
Language update for Polish 2008:74
The language
interface package for Polish has been posted for 2008:74.
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.
|
|
11 June 2008
What's New in TNTmips 2008?
A new feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new Virtual Mosaic in TNT products. Using only the Import process, a collection of image files in one of several directly linkable file formats can be quickly assembled into a virtual mosaic raster object. A virtual raster might be built from a few source files or 10,000s. The files used might range from collarless quadrangle maps to color orthoimage tiles or DOQQ images.
The performance of a virtual raster in a View does not depend on the file count or their size, but primarily upon how fast their format can be read (including the media and the connection to it). For example, a virtual mosaic of 1000s of quadrangle maps or images stored in *.jp2 files can be viewed almost as fast as a hierarchical tileset raster object, whereas the same files in *.jpg format would display slower. The import process builds a single TNT raster object link file by defining paths to, and characteristics of, all the source images. It also builds pyramid layers in the link file for the virtual mosaic so that it can be drawn quickly at any zoom level.
Virtual Mosaic ...
|
|
10 June 2008
Improved Functionalities in TNTmips 2008
A new feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the improved Database Support, Stream Ordering, Surface Modeling and other miscellaneous functionalities in TNT products.
Database Support: Allows linking to Oracle using Oracle’s own faster OCI Open Call Interface Protocol, exporting via OLE DB and deleting duplicate records procedure attaches elements to retained records.
Stream Ordering: Automatically determines stream order values for connected lines in a vector object, computes database table with Strahler, Horton, Shreve, and Scheidegger order values, determines flow direction automatically for 3D vector source, and manually designates outflow nodes for 2D vector source.
Surface Modeling: Surface fitting using a TIN provides multiple triangle interpolation methods including Linear, Quintic, and new Modified Quintic and Nonic methods, triangulate points into TIN can now use vector or spatial database (pinmap) as source.
See more details, illustrations and other miscellaneous improvements at:
Database Support, Stream Ordering, Surface Modeling, Miscellaneous ...
|
|
09 June 2008
Language update for Malaysian 2008:74
The language
interface package for Malaysian has been posted for 2008:74.
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.
|
|
06 June 2008
Improved Import / Export Functionalities in TNTmips 2008
A new feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the improved Import / Export functionalities in TNT products.
BigTIFF: The TIFF specification has been expanded to support TIFF and GeoTIFF files much larger than 4 GB. TNT processes now support these changes for import, export, and rendering for TIFF and GeoTIFF files for all bit depths, datatypes, compression modes, and standard tags.
DWG/DXF: Import/export/link with AutoCAD R14, export from linked shape objects, export labels from CAD or vector...
KML/KMZ: Improved import of KML or KMZ layouts as objects, export of Views with any object, linked file, or WMS layer to KML/KMZ.
Import / Export ...
|
|
05 June 2008
Brand New in TNTmips 2008: Viewing WMS and ArcIMS Layers
A new 2-page
feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new tool to use WMS and ArcIMS Layers in TNT products.
You can now add map and image layers from Internet sources to any TNT view in combination with your local geodata layers. Unless you know the complete address of the layer (in other words, its URL), you must first locate the layer of interest using MicroImages? catalogs and search tools. Once you have selected a web layer, its addition and management in your View parallels that used for your local vector, CAD, shape, raster, and other layers. Just as with these other geodata layer types, you use a Web Map Service Layer Controls window or an ArcIMS Service Layer Controls window. Their functions are similar to how layer control windows are used to set up your local layers.
Viewing WMS and ArcIMS Layers ...
|
|
04 June 2008
Brand New in TNTmips 2008: TNT System Improvements
A new
feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new TNT System Improvements in TNTmips.
- Native 64-bit versions for Windows and Mac (Intel and PowerPC)
- Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.5 support
- Empty areas are omitted from raster objects and tilesets
- Print high-quality color anaglyph image maps and posters
- JPEG2000 raster operations are all multi-threaded
- Automatically select all useable objects/formats in a directory structure
TNT System Improvements ...
|
|
03 June 2008
Brand New in TNTmips 2008: Interactive Mask Creation
A new
feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the all-new
mask editing process in TNTmips.
Binary null masks stored with your raster objects are used automatically by TNT processes to define these complex areas of interest. A null mask is stored as a subobject of its raster object (including rasters linked to files in other formats such as tileset raster objects). A new process is now available that allows you to interactively create or edit a null mask for any raster object.
Interactive Mask Creation ...
|
|
02 June 2008
Language Kits for Finnish and Spanish 2008:74
The language
interface packages for Finnish and Spanish have been posted for 2008:74.
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.
|
|
30 May 2008
System: MicroImages' WMS and ArcIMS Catalogs
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 illustrates how to use the dynamic catalogs of WMS
and/or ArcIMS layers in the TNT products. The names and URLs of these online
catalogs are installed as part of your TNT product to assist you in locating map
and image layers published by the services they index.
When you open a catalog, your TNT product uses its address and
your Internet connection to request that catalog?s current contents from the
web site that maintains it. Then you can browse the layers offered by a specific
service and choose the map and image layers of interest to use in a composite
view with your local geodata layers.
MicroImages'
WMS and ArcIMS Catalogs
|
29 May 2008
Brand New in TNTmips 2008: New Mosaic Process
A new
feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the all-new
mosaic process in TNTmips.
No mosaic is too big or too small for the new Mosaic process. The
process has been redesigned to accommodate really huge raster mosaics and the
output formats required for their efficient viewing and use in the TNT products.
Mosaic processing takes advantage of the TNT image processing pipeline for very
rapid throughput of massive datasets.
New
Mosaic Process ...
28 May 2008
System: TNT product WMS and ArcIMS Capabilities
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 gives an overview of the way the TNT products can
access and use WMS and ArcIMS layers from the web.
Free TNT products are the MicroImages WMS Catalog, ArcIMS
catalog, TNTmap, iTNTmap, and TNTatlas for finding and displaying layers from
the internet.
Professional TNT products include TNTmips, TNTedit, and TNTview,
using web layers for visualization, reference, and analysis; and TNTserver for
publishing your own project geodata on the web as WMS layers.
TNT
product WMS and ArcIMS Capabilities (2-sided)
27 May 2008
Spatial Display: Locator Reference View Manages Zoom and Position
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 illustrates the Locator view in the TNT Spatial
Display process, which shows you where you are within the full extents of the
layers in the current group or layout and to assist you in moving around the
area viewed when zoomed in.
You can use the elastic box in the Locator to define the extents
of your view. This box can be resized and repositioned to change what is shown
in the View window to match the new extents and position of the box.
Locator
Reference View Manages Zoom and Position
22 May 2008
What's New in TNTmips 2008? Geospatial Modeling Language (SML)
A new
feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted. In support of several
clients who are carrying out major analysis projects using SML, MicroImages has
added a selection of new classes to SML, including classes that make all of the
TNTmips pipeline architecture available in SML.
Other SML changes include new functions and new
methods for interface to linked databases, determining a geometric object's
element type, and moving a coordinate point by distance and direction.
Geospatial
Modeling Language (SML) (2-sided)
21 May 2008
New Geospatial Consultant in Brazil
Latitude
23 has been added as a Geospatial Consultant for the TNT products in
Brazil. Contact Gabor Szakacs in Sao Paulo for sales and consulting services.
MicroImages has Authorized
Resellers and Geospatial Consultants in 29 countries worldwide.
Latitude
23 in Brazil ...
20 May 2008
Language Kits for Japanese and Bengali 2008:74
The language
interface packages for Japanese and Bengali have been posted for 2008:74.
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.
19 May 2008
Updated Reseller Booklet
The directory of MicroImages
Authorized Resellers and Geospatial Consultants has been updated.
MicroImages is seeking
Resellers for the TNT products.
MicroImages
Authorized Resellers and Geospatial Consultants
15 May 2008
Language Kits for Thai and Turkish 2008:74
The language
interface packages for Thai and Turkish have been posted for 2008:74.
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.
13 May 2008
Technical Articles Database Updated
For many years MicroImages has systematically
tracked the technical literature and culled over 2,000 reference articles of
special interest for our software engineers.
An online database lets you search title,
author(s), journal, and publication date.
12 May 2008
System: Use and Export BigTIFF Files
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 illustrates the new system support for the BigTIFF
format. Image files in the standard TIFF file format are limited in size to 4
GB. However, detailed images and image mosaics now routinely exceed that 4 GB
limit. The TNT products 2008:74 now support the BigTIFF format, which supports
image files that greatly exceed 4 GB in size. All bit depths, datatypes,
compression modes, and standard tags in the regular TIFF/GeoTIFF format are also
supported in BigTIFF.
Use
and Export BigTIFF Files
9 May 2008
Language Kit for Greek 2008:74
The language
interface package for Greek has been posted for 2008:74. 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.
8 May 2008
TNT Products Application: Urban Planning
A new product application page surveys the use of the TNT products in Urban Planning. Urban Planners need to
integrate data from multiple sources and produce electronic and paper maps when
making decisions about how cities grow and develop. TNTmips provides powerful
tools for producing maps that require attributes, special symbology, and
integrated analysis and presentation tools. With GIS, image processing, 2D/3D
visualization and geospatial analysis tools, TNTmips helps planners create,
modify, and analyze spatial data to identify problems, forecast future needs,
prepare urban plans and monitor their implementation.
TNTmips also supports
participatory planning for greater citizen involvement in spatial
decision-making by providing a variety of data publishing methods such as
creating electronic atlases, Google Earth overlays, and 3D simulations.
Urban
Planning (2-sided)
7 May 2008
Updated Reseller Booklet
The directory of MicroImages
Authorized Resellers and Geospatial Consultants has been updated.
MicroImages is seeking
Resellers for the TNT products.
MicroImages
Authorized Resellers and Geospatial Consultants
5 May 2008
Sample Tool Script: StrikeDipTool76.sml
A revised Strike/Dip
sample Tool
Script computes geological strike/dip values for strata from an accurate
DEM and overlaid aerial or satellite image. The tool allows you to place three
non-collinear points on each planar feature, creates vector points with attached
strike
and dip values, and styles the points using an embedded CartoScript that
is automatically saved with the vector object for later use. The script can
automatically adjust for DEMs georeferenced to different coordinate reference
systems, including geographic (latitude/longitude) coordinates.
StrikeDipTool76.sml
(for version 2007:73)
2 May 2008
Cartoscripts: Fold Lines and Fault Lines for Geologic Maps
Two new sets of sample CartoScripts?
have been posted. CartoScripts
give you the ability to design custom map symbols for lines and points in vector
and CAD objects.
MicroImages has created
several sets of free scripts designed to render the specialized line and point
symbols for geologic and geotectonic maps. The new folds2 set includes
Asymmetric, Plunging, and Doubly-plunging styles for both anticline and syncline
features. The new faults2 set includes left- and right-lateral high
angle styles, left- and right-lateral transpressional styles, and left- and
right-lateral transtensional styles.
Geologic
Map Cartoscrpts
1 May 2008
Spatial Editor: Using Web Layers as Reference Layers
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 illustrates how to use WMS and/or ArcIMS layers as
reference layers while creating or editing local objects. You can add
multiple web layers from one or more WMSs/ArcIMSs if desired. Each WMS
layer can be one layer or a composite of layers from a single WMS.
Using
Web Layers as Reference Layers
30 April 2008
TNT Products Application: Geologic Mapping
A new product application page surveys the seamless integration
of GIS, image processing, and 3D visualization processes in TNTmips that make it
a good choice for the challenge of geologic mapping and geologic map
presentation.
A geologic map is very data-rich, conveying information on rock
types, contacts, and outcrop and map-scale structures, each requiring attributes
and special symbology.
25 April 2008
Technical Articles Database Updated
For many years MicroImages has systematically
tracked the technical literature and culled over 2,000 reference articles of
special interest for our software engineers.
An online database lets you search title,
author(s), journal, and publication date.
22 April 2008
Language Kits for French and German 2008:74
The language
interface packages for French and German have been
updated for 2008:74. 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.
21 April 2008
Spatial Display: Locating and Using WMS Layers
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 illustrates how to select Web Map Service (WMS) layers
from the internet for viewing as display layers in the TNT products. The
TNT display process includes features for using WMS catalogs, searching, using
recent selections and saving favorites so you can dynamically include a wide
variety of publicly available geodata with your other project materials.
Locating
and Using WMS Layers (2-sided)
18 April 2008
Feature Mapping: Using a Reference Vector
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 illustrates how to use a reference vector in the
Feature Mapping process to identify features. You may have existing vector data
on hand, such as wetland polygons, that you want to use as you map wetland
features from new imagery. As you select training cells for a prototype
feature, the process can refer to the polygons in the reference layer to guide
feature identification across the larger image.
Using
a Reference Vector
16 April 2008
64-bit TNT for Mac OS 10.5
Support for the software authorization key used for version
2008:74 of the TNT products is finally available to permit MicroImages to
release a native 64-bit version for Intel based Macs (HASP key only).
This 64-bit version of the TNTmips, TNTedit, and TNTview and
their equivalents in TNTlite can be downloaded
now as the weekly release (i.e., weekly patch) from microimages.com.
For
More Details ...
14 April 2008
iTNTmap: View Maps and Images on the iPhone and iTouch
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 gives detailed instructions on the use of iTNTmap, the
free WMS / ArcIMS viewer for iPhone and iTouch. iTNTmap lets users select
from 1.300.000 WMS and ArcIMS map layers freely available on the internet.
iTNTmap is just one part of the Release
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
View
Maps and Images on the iPhone and iTouch (2-sided)
10 April 2008
New Authorized Reseller in Finland
WSP
Group Finland has been added as an Authorized Reseller for the TNT
products in Finland. Contact Pentti Ruokokoski in Helsinki for sales and
consulting services.
MicroImages has Authorized
Resellers and Geospatial Consultants in 29 countries worldwide.
WSP
Group Finland ...
8 April 2008
New Tutorial: Geospatial Scripting
The TNT products include a
geospatial scripting language that you can use to customize the creation,
interpretation, and presentation of your geospatial data. A script can be
anything from a single expression to a long structured program. You can use
different types of scripts for a variety of purposes.
MicroImages offers 80
free booklets with step-by-step exercises that introduce the concepts of
GIS, desktop cartography, and image processing in the use of the TNT products.
Geospatial
Scripting
7 April 2008
Scripting: PipelinePanSharp.sml
A new sample pipeline script illustrates the use of a custom
dialog window and assembly of an image pipeline using options set from the
dialog. The script computes a pan-sharpened color composite image from three
low-resolution bands of a multispectral image and a higher-resolution
panchromatic image. The pan-sharpened image can be saved as an RVC raster object
or as a TIFF, PNG, JP2, or JPEG file. The script dialog provides a choice of
color-blending options.
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.
PipelinePanSharp.sml
Pipeline
Scripting Page
Geospatial
Scripting in the TNT products ...
4 April 2008
Geospatial Analysis: Buffer Zone Options for "Islands"
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 illustrates how the Separate By Attribute and By
Element features in the Buffer Zone process are affected by the Use Polygons as
Region option. To select elements for buffering you can mix and match use of the
Mark by Query (from the Layer Manager) with selection using the mouse and the
Select tool or using the checkbox for each record shown in the tabular view of a
database table. The By Query processing option evaluates your entered query and
buffers only those elements that satisfy the query without regard for any
elements selected in the View window ...
Geospatial
Analysis: Buffer Zone Options for "Islands"
3 April 2008
Online Maps, TNTmap Builder, TNTserver
The Web Map Service and Web Feature Service materials hosted by
MicroImages are now all running on TNTserver 2007:73. The Online Maps page
that offers seamless State Orthophoto mosaics of 1- and 2-meter resolution lets
you select recent statewide coverages of 43 U. S. states.
TNTserver is a robust OGC-compliant Web Map Server that lets you
publish your geospatial data on the web for viewing in any WMS viewer, such as
Google Maps, Google Earth, or TNTmap.
Demonstration
Atlases of Seamless State Orthophoto Mosaics ...
2 April 2008
TNTproducts 2008:74 Release
On
2 April 2008 version 2008:74 became the official
release of the TNT products
Please
download
and begin using this version of your TNT product.
Technical
Guides describe the major
new features available in this new version.
1 April 2008
Geospatial Analysis: Clipping Voronoi Diagrams
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes the Voronoi Diagram process, which provides
a number of features for efficient two-dimensional spatial analysis. In
theory, a Voronoi diagram is unbounded, but its use as a vector object in
geospatial analysis requires a finite boundary, which can be created by a
selection of clipping operations.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Clipping
Voronoi Diagrams
31 March 2008
Feature Mapping: Region Growing Tool
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes the Feature Mapping Process's new Grow and
Mark Features tool, which works on one feature at a time. When you click in a
representative area, the process looks at the neighborhood around the click
point and determines a basic range and previews the resulting feature. Then you
can expand or reduce the range using the mouse wheel.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Region
Growing Tool
26 March 2008
Spatial Display: Render Point Symbols to KML
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes how to display your point elements in Google
Earth with the same symbols used in the TNT products. The KML file created
stores each point symbol as a placemark element (also called Marker) and its
associated symbol as a placemark icon.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Render
Point Symbols to KML
24 March 2008
Export: Database Tables to KML Schema Tags
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes how to use the TNTmips Export process to
convert the attributes attached to vector or CAD elements into KML schema tags.
When the KML file created from a geometric object is displayed in the Google
Earth, the object name shows up under the Temporary Places folder on the Places
panel of Google Earth along with the elements listed with the value of the
table.field you selected during the export process.
Although you can view the records from other fields for
each element, Google Earth does not allow you to view the whole content of the
table but Google Earth Pro does.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Database
Tables to KML Schema Tags
21 March 2008
Import: Database Tables from KML Schema Tags
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes how to use the TNTmips Import process to
create a CAD or Vector object and a database table attached to the object's
elements from a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file using KML schema tags.
The points, polygons, and/or lines stored in a KML file can be
imported into a CAD or vector object along with the attributes attached to the
objects? elements if the KML file involves schema tags to keep the database
tables.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Database
Tables from KML Schema Tags
19 March 2008
Free TNTatlas 2008:74 for Mac OS X
The Release Version 2007:73 and the Development
Version 2008:74 of the free
TNTatlas product for Mac OS X are now available for download.
TNTatlas is
a free product for viewing hierarchical atlases prepared in
TNTmips with HyperIndex Linker, or for single-layout atlases.
TNTatlas provides a means for small or widespread distribution
of atlases. The recipient of an atlas on CD-ROM has everything
required to view the atlas.
MicroImages also
provides a free
tutorial booklet on the use of TNTatlas.
You can download TNTatlas in the Development
Version or the Release
Version of the TNT products
18 March 2008
Spatial Display: Render WMS and ArcIMS Layers to KML
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes the new feature in the TNT display process
that lets you render all the layers in a group or layout into a local KML or KMZ
file for use as temporary places in Google Earth. This includes web layers that
have been located on the Internet and added to the view from sites that are
publishing maps and images using an ArcIMS or Web Map Service (WMS).
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Render
WMS and ArcIMS Layers to KML (2-sided)
17 March 2008
TNTmap in Online OGC User Magazine
The online OGC User magazine features a review of TNTmap,
the free Web Map Service (WMS) browser and viewer from MicroImages.
OGC User Magazine is a free bi-monthly e-mail publication of the
Open GIS Consortium that highlights the use of OpenGIS Specifications in
building world class, interoperable solutions for spatial and related
technologies.
TNTmap: A
Free Web Map Service / Web Feature Service Browser and Viewer
12 March 2008
Miscellaneous Processes: Extracting Raster Areas with Buffer
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes the new feature for extracting an area from
a raster object by using a buffer to modify the area for extraction with TNT's
By Region and By Polygon extraction methods.
TNT lets you define raster extraction areas manually and by
range, by mask, by region, and by polygon.
Extracting
Raster Areas with Buffer (2-sided)
11 March 2008
Geospatial Scripting: Using Regions in a Pipeline
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes the new pipeline features in SML whereby TNT
geospatial scripts can implement an image processing pipeline that uses region
objects to mask an image and/or to crop an image to the bounding extents of a
simple or complex area of interest.
Using Regions in a Pipeline (2-sided)
7 March 2008
Vector Analysis: Buffer Zone Generation
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes the redesigned Buffer Zone process in TNTmips (Geometric/Compute/Buffer Zones), which can use shape, CAD, region, and pinmap objects in addition to vector objects as input. The buffer zones generated can be saved as a polygonal vector, CAD, or region object. The options presented in the process depend on the object type selected for input, the elements it contains, and the target object type. The newly added Accurate method makes it possible to generate very small buffer zones.
Buffer Zone Generation (2-sided)
6 March 2008
Download TNTmap Dashboard Widget from
Apple.com
Apple's download pages offer the TNTmap dashboard
widget from MicroImages:
View composites of maps, images, and other geodata layers in
Google Maps, Google Earth, TNTmap Open, or TNTmap Viewer. Use TNTmap to
locate, organize, and view these geographic materials from sites publishing
them in standard Open Geospatial Consortium protocols (Web Map Service [WMS]
and also via a Web Feature Service [WFS] for Google Maps). TNTmap is also
available as a web application for use in Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, and
Internet Explorer for Windows, Linux, and Solaris...
Download
TNTmap Dashboard Widget from Apple.com ...
5 March 2008
iTNTmap for iPhone and iTouch
A new
page on this site shows a simulation of iTNTmap for iPhone and iTouch
devices. iTNTmap is a mobile web app for viewing map and image layers
published on the Internet. It uses a modified Google Map viewer to view
any Web Map Service (WMS) layers (900,000 currently published). and any ArcIMS
layers (400,000 currently published). iTNTmap is a smaller and simpler version
of the full TNTmap,
which is available for FREE as a web app or executable program for use in
Safari, Firefox, Explorer, and Opera.
iTNTmap for
iPhone and iTouch
4 March 2008
Search MicroImages' Information Resources
The search
page for this web site has been reorganized. You can search the
entire microimages.com site, or you can select discrete search categories to
limit your keyword search to particular categories of the online documentation
and information available. Focus your search on categories such as the
1100 technical guides, 80 tutorial booklets, 177 quick guides, 250 SML
scripts, the new feature summaries, and the version-by-version release notes.
Search
MicroImages Information Resources ...
3 March 2008
Pipeline Sample Script: PipelineCropAndMaskFromRegion.sml
A new sample standalone script demonstrates use of a region as
a pipeline source to mask and crop a source image. Script inputs: a single
raster in a Project File, and a vector object with polygons designating the
part of the input raster to retain. The polygons are converted to a region,
which is then used to create a pipeline region source.
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.
PipelineCropAndMaskFromRegion.sml
Pipeline
Scripting Page
29 February 2008
Geospatial Scripting: Pipeline Structures
for Multiple Inputs
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 illustrates programming techniques for using pipelines
with multiple input objects in a geospatial script. For illustration it proves
two sample scripts (PipelineResampleToGeorefMulti.sml
and PipelineMosaicToReference.sml)
that demonstrate use of an image processing pipeline in an iterative
Pipeline
Structures for Multiple Inputs (2-sided)
28 February 2008
Geospatial Scripting: Pipeline Programming
Basics
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 introduces
programming basics for
setting up and
executing an image-processing pipeline in a
geospatial script. For illustration it proves
a sample script (PipelineResampleToMatch.sml)
that resamples an image in a Project File to
match a reference image with the output
directed to a Project File.
Pipeline
Programming Basics (2-sided)
27 February 2008
Pipeline Sample Script:
PipelineResampleToUTM.sml
A new sample standalone script to resample/reproject a source
raster to a different coordinate reference system. In this example the image
is reprojected to the UTM zone appropriate for its location while maintaining
the same datum.
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.
PipelineResampleToUTM.sml
Pipeline
Scripting Page
26 February 2008
New Authorized Reseller in Mexico
Geotecx
has been added as an Geospatial Consultant for
the TNT products in Mexico. Contact Juan
Dobarganes in Guanajuato for sales and
consulting services.
MicroImages has Authorized
Resellers and Geospatial Consultants in 29
countries worldwide.
Geotecx
...
25 February 2008
Pipeline Sample Script: PipelineResampleToGeorefMulti.sml
A new sample standalone script
illustrates how to incorporate an image processing
pipeline into a user-defined function that is
iteratively called to process a series of grayscale
rasters through the same processing steps, with each
iteration producing a single output raster. The
specific application in this case is reprojecting a
series of source rasters with control-point
georeference to align their lines/columns with their
coordinate reference system.
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.
PipelineResampleToGeorefMulti.sml
Pipeline
Scripting Page
22 February 2008
Geospatial Scripting: Pipeline Image
Processing
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes the
pipeline image-processing architecture in the
TNT products and the Geospatial Scripting
Language (SML) for tasks that can be broken
down into a series of independent processing
steps. Pipeline processing in SML can be used
in combination with the wide array of other
SML functions and classes..
Pipeline
Image Processing (2-sided)
21 February 2008
New View Window DV2008:74
The beta version of the new
View window in the Display process is being
introduced in the 6 February upgrade of DV2008:74.
Some of its new features are illustrated in
the revised color plate linked here.
The missing scroll bars are to
be replaced by real-time pan and scroll of the
View in DV2008:74 in several weeks. (This will
be a multi-threaded operation but you will not
need a multicore computer to take advantage of
this new feature.)
New
View Window DV2008:74
19 February 2008
Terrain Operations: Create Segmented
Flowpaths
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes the
features in the TNTmips Watershed process
(Raster / Elevation / Watershed) that provide
the option to create a segmented flowpath
vector object in addition to the standard
flowpath vector. You can segment flowpaths
using values of either elevation or flow
accumulation (i.e. upstream contributing area
expressed as the number of DEM cells). You can
set boundary values in three ways using the
Interval menu: Equal, Exponential, or Unequal.
Create
Segmented Flowpaths
18 February 2008
TNT Products Overview: Spatial Databases
A new product
overview page describes spatial databases
in the TNT products, which store geospatial
data features that do not exist in typical
databases. You can import from a variety of
spatial database formats such as ESRI Personal
Geodatabase, MySQL Spatial, PostGIS, and
Oracle Spatial. Using the Import process you
can either set up links to spatial layers or
fully import the spatial layers to TNT
objects. Each linked spatial layer with its
associated attributes is stored as a shape
database link in a TNT Project File.
Alternatively, you can choose to import the
spatial layers as vector or CAD objects.
Spatial
Databases
14 February 2008
TNT Products Overview: Google GIS Mashups
A new product
overview page describes the TNT products
tools for creating a KML or KMZ file from your
geodata for use in Google Earth, Google Maps,
Virtual Earth and other software with KML
support. You can choose either to render the
currently viewed portions of your geodata in
your groups or layouts or to export your
geospatial elements to KML or KMZ files. You
can also save your geotagged photos as KML
files and display your photos with their
locations in Google Earth.
Google
GIS Mashups
13 February 2008
TNT Products Overview: Combining Local/Web
Maps
A new product
overview page describes how the Spatial
Display process lets you select layers
published by any Web Map Service (WMS) or
ArcIMS to display in combination with any of
your local raster, vector, shape, CAD, TIN,
and pinmap objects. Likewise, the Spatial
Editor lets you use WMS and ArcIMS layers as
reference layers when creating and editing
your own spatial data. MicroImages maintains
catalogs of available WMS (>900,000) and
ArcIMS (>400,000) layers. The search
capabilities enable you to quickly select from
this multitude of layers using text or
geographic area as your search criterion.
Combining
Local/Web Maps
12 February 2008
TNT Products Overview: Online Atlases
A new product
overview page describes the online atlases
published by TNTserver, which runs as a Web
Map Service (WMS) and/or Web Feature Service (WFS)
on your Internet host machine. Layers
published by TNTserver can be viewed with
TNTmap (MicroImages' WMS/WFS client) or any
other WMS/WFS compliant client. MicroImages
also maintains catalogs of WMS and WFS layers
available over the Internet. There are more
than 900,000 WMS layers available for
selection and nearly 4,000 WFS layers. Like
any Internet browsing activity, connections
must be functioning properly at both ends for
fast, reliable display.
Online
Atlases
11 February 2008
TNT Products Overview: Publishing Geodata
A new product
overview page describes how you can
publish your geodata on CD or DVD and
recipients can use the free TNTatlas for
visualization. You can also publish your
geodata on the Internet or a private local
network using TNTserver and view published
materials using the free TNTmap or any other
Web Map Service (WMS) compliant viewer.
Published geodata can be a single group or
layout or can make use of the hierarchical
HyperIndex links that can be established with
TNTmips to move from display of a starting
layout to other related information.
Publishing
Geodata
7 February 2008
New View Window DV2008:74
The beta version of the new
View window in the Display process is being
introduced in the 6 February upgrade of DV2008:74.
Some of its new features are illustrated in
the accompanying color plate.
Support is not yet included for
running your MacroScripts and ToolScripts
(probably in 13 February release).
The missing scroll bars are to
be replaced by real-time pan and scroll of the
View in DV2008:74 in several weeks. (This will
be a multi-threaded operation but you will not
need a multicore computer to take advantage of
this new feature.)
New
View Window DV2008:74
5 February 2008
TNT Products Overview: Network Analysis
A new product overview page
introduces the Network Analysis process, which is used for solving routing and logistical problems on a network of connected lines in a vector object. The network might represent city streets, state highways, water or sewer pipelines, or some other utility network. You can use Network Analysis to determine the optimal route connecting stops in the network, or to allocate different parts of the network to service areas around individual facility locations. These analyses utilize the topology of the network and properties of the lines and intersections (such as one-way directions and impedance and demand values) that you can set up easily using the provided tools.
Network
Analysis
4 February 2008
TNT Products Overview: Geospatial
Analysis
A new product overview page
introduces the many advanced TNT processes for
compiling, analyzing, and interpreting the
geospatial characteristics and database
attributes of your geodata layers and creating
higher-level products from them. Specialized
analysis processes are provided for geodata in
both raster and geometric (vector, CAD, shape)
formats and for transferring spatial
information from one layer to another. These
processes enable you to turn the data in your
geospatial layers into geospatial information.
Geospatial Analysis
1 February 2008
TNTmap: Widget Viewing of WMS/WFS Content for
Mac OS X 10.5 (2-sided)
AA new Technical
Guide for 2007:73 describes the
features and use of the TNTmap Dashboard
widget for the Macintosh. TNTmap Builder
can be used to select WFS layers from anywhere
on the Internet for viewing in Google Maps,
Google Earth, TNTmap Open, and TNTmap Viewer
Widget
Viewing of WMS/WFS Content for Mac OS X 10.5
(2-sided)
31 January 2008
Updated Reseller Booklet
The
directory of MicroImages
Authorized Resellers and Geospatial
Consultants has been
updated.
MicroImages
is seeking
Resellers for the TNT products.
MicroImages
Authorized Resellers and Geospatial
Consultants
30 January 2008
New Authorized Reseller in Australia
Terranean
Mapping Technologies has been added as
an Authorized Reseller for the TNT products in
Australia. Contact David Moore in
Brisbane for sales and consulting services.
MicroImages has Authorized
Resellers and Geospatial Consultants
in 29 countries worldwide.
29 January 2008
TNT Products Overview
A new TNT
Products Overview page provides access
to PDF versions of all the 1-page product
overview documents. Each 1-page document
gives an overview of the features, tools,
and processes in the TNT products that apply
to a selected topic or type of task.
All together, the product overview pages
give a sense of the breadth of the
capabilities in the TNT products.
TNT
Products Overview ...
28 January 2008
TNT Products Overview: Custom Geospatial
Analysis
A new product overview page
describes the TNT geospatial scripting language (SML), which provides a wide range of options for custom display and processing of your geospatial data. You can implement novel new processes with dialogs, Views, and custom tools, or automate workflows through a chain of processes. You can add interactive tools and enhancements to standard Views so you can use or transform the displayed layers or automatically present specific attribute information in custom DataTips. Thousands of built-in functions, integrated documentation, and hundreds of sample scripts make it easy to learn how to use these powerful tools.
Custom
Geospatial Analysis
25 January 2008
TNT Products Overview: Image Processing
A new product overview page
describes how TNTmips allows you to display,
create, and process images of any type and up
to terrabytes in size. You can enhance,
combine, rectify, reproject, mosaic, and
classify your geospatial images to optimize
information extraction and data presentation.
In addition, the Display process provides
inline spatial filtering, enhancement, and
reprojection options that allow you to design
the best views of your images. You can even
work with hyperspectral images in the
Hyperspectral Analysis process.
Image
Processing
24 January 2008
2007 Seamless Orthophoto of Nebraska
2007 orthophoto coverage for
Nebraska is now online. View any area of
Nebraska covered by a seamless mosaic of NAIP
(National Agriculture Imagery Program) imagery
with a ground detail of 1 and 2 meters in
Google Maps, Google Earth, TNTmap Viewer, or
TNTmap Open. This statewide coverage of
Nebraska is hosted by Microlmages' TNTserver,
a Web Map Service (WMS) certified as compliant
with this specification of the Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
MicroImages hosts 1- and
2-meter orthophoto
mosaics for 36 states.
Nebraska
Orthophotos . . .
23 January 2008
TNT Products Overview: GIS
A new product overview page
describes how TNTmips works as a full-featured
GIS that integrates imagery along with
features presented in vector, CAD, shape,
pinmap, and TIN formats. Projects may be
oriented toward map production or various
analytical processes, such as management of
activities within a specified distance of
sensitive areas or distribution of services.
Wildlife management, mineral exploration,
agricultural management, site planning,
environmental monitoring, cartography,
archeology, land stewardship, disaster relief,
and demography, among many other management
tasks, can also be accomplished with advanced
GIS software.
GIS
22 January 2008
TNT Products Overview: Image Classification
A new product overview page describes the processes performing
spatial/spectral classifications of your images. The Automatic Classification
process provides automated unsupervised and supervised multispectral image
classification. The Feature Mapping process lets you visually identify class
sample areas to guide an incremental image classification. You can analyze and
classify hyperspectral images in the Hyperspectral Analysis Process. The
Automatic Raster Combination process lets you comine classification results from
different dates or conditions.
Image
Classification
21 January 2008
TNT Products Overview: Hyperspectral Analysis
A new product overview page
describes the specialized tools you need to
fully exploit the spectral range and spectral
resolution of your hyperspectral images.
On-the-fly reflectance calibration and an
integrated spectral library make the process
easy to use, yet it also includes powerful
tools for data reduction, spectral search, and
spectral mapping. You can extract and archive
spectra from your image and import your own
field or laboratory reflectance spectra. Your
hyperspectral images can be imported or
converted to a single compressed hyperspectral
object for efficient storage, use, and
processing.
Hyperspectral
Analysis
18 January 2008
Spatial Editor: Saving Selections from
Geometric Layers (2-sided)
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes how to use
the Save Section As feature of TNTmips'
Editor to select any area of any raster,
vector, or CAD object and save it as a new
object of the same type. Shape objects opened
using Object/Open External are saved as
Project File vectors by this feature. You can
draw a free form polygon to select the area,
use the circle or rectangle tool, or use an
already saved region.
You can try this new feature
in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Saving
Selections from Geometric Layers (2-sided) (pdf)
17 January 2008
TNT Products Overview: Thematic Mapping
A new product overview page
describes the range of features and processes
that support thematic mapping of your
geospatial data. Using the attributes attached
to your elements, you can create color theme
maps or graduated symbol maps for
visualization and analysis. The thematic
mapping tools in the TNT products allow you to
assign a range of styles to represent the
range of values for any attribute.
Thematic
Mapping (pdf)
16 January 2008
Spatial Editor: Saving Areas of Raster Layers
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes how to
select any area of any raster, vector, CAD, or
shape object and save it as a new object of
the same type. You can select the save area by
drawing a free-form polygon. using the circle
or rectangle tool, or using an already saved
region.
Saving
Areas of Raster Layers (pdf)
15 January 2008
TNT Products Overview: Surface Modeling
A new product overview page
describes the range of features and processes
that support surface modeling in the TNT
products. You can construct and
transform representations of natural terrains
and mathematical surfaces from 3D information.
The Surface Fitting, Contouring, and
Triangulation operations allow you to produce
Digital Elevation Model rasters (DEMs),
contour lines, and triangulated irregular
networks (TINs)..
Surface
Modeling (pdf)
14 January 2008
TNT Products Overview: Terrain Operations
A new product overview page describes
the range of features and processes that support
terrain operations in the TNT products. A wide
range of tools for analyzing and processing digital
elevation model (DEM) raster objects give you general
terrain characteristics such as cell-by-cell slope,
aspect, shading, and curvature; viewsheds, cut and
fill analysis, watershed models, and surface modeling
transformations.
Terrain
Operations (pdf)
11 January 2008
Spatial Editor: Creating Geodata Using Geodata
Templates
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes how to use a template
object, which has the same georeference and
database structure as the object it was created from,
to create a new object that has no elements (geometric
templates) or cell values (raster templates).
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Creating
Geodata Using Geodata Templates (2-sided) (pdf)
10 January 2008
Pipeline Sample Script: PipelineNDVIfromTIFF.sml
A
sample pipeline script computes NDVI (Normalized
Difference Vegetation Index) directly from a
QuickBird or Ikonos multispectral image GeoTIFF
file. This script illustrates how to select bands
from a multiband image for processing and to set up
a chain of pipeline filters to perform stepwise and
branching tasks on the image.
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.
PipelineNDVIfromTIFF.sml
Pipeline
Scripting Page
9 January 2008
TNT Products Overview: Map Design
A new product overview page describes
the range of features and processes that support map
layout and design in the TNT products.
Interactive layout tools let you position your layers
and groups precisely and then add automatic scale
bars, map grids, legends, and annotation text. Complex
maps can be designed for hardcopy prints or electronic
delivery.
Map
Design (pdf)
8 January 2008
Language Kit for Malaysian
2007:73
The language
interface package for Malaysian 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.
7 January 2008
Attributes and Databases: Predefined Database Tables
(S-57)
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes the new support
for S-57, the electronic data transfer standard
prepared by the International Hydrographic
Organization (IHO) for use with Digital Hydrographic
Data. The TNT products provide the predefined tables
and table structure (schema) that contain all the
attribute information used for digital hydrologic
features. Using these predefined tables lets you
prepare an object for assignment of any number of
attributes very quickly for points, lines, and/or
polygons.
You can try this new feature in the Development
Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
Predefined
Database Tables (S-57) (2-sided) (pdf)
4 January 2008
Spatial Editor: Creating Geodata Using a Pen Display
A new Technical
Guide for 2008:74 describes how to use a pen
display for creating and editing geodata objects in
TNTedit and the Spatial Editor in TNTmips.
Using a pen directly on the screen is an ideal
interface when you are working with geometric objects
(vector, shape, or CAD) over reference imagery or map
layers.
Creating
Geodata Using a Pen Display (pdf)
3 January 2008
Pipeline Sample Script: PipelineTopographic.sml
A
sample pipeline script shows how to compute
slope, aspect, shading, profile curvature, and plan
curvature rasters from an input digital elevation
raster. This script illustrates setting up an image
processing pipeline using a single RVC source and a
target consisting of several RVC raster objects.
PipelineTopographic.sml
Pipeline
Scripting Page
2 January 2008
Pipeline Sample Script: PipelineMosaicToReference.sml
A
sample pipeline script shows how to match a
reference raster. This script illustrates setting up
an image processing pipeline to accept any number of
input rasters for a pipeline filter that utilizes
multiple inputs.
PipelineMosaicToReference.sml
Pipeline
Scripting Page
View Older News Items
|
25 March 2009
|
page update:
22 Aug 12
|
©MicroImages, Inc. 2013 Published in the United States of America
11th Floor - Sharp Tower, 206 South 13th Street, Lincoln NE 68508-2010 USA
Business & Sales: (402)477-9554 Support: (402)477-9562 Fax: (402)477-9559
Business info@microimages.com
Support support@microimages.com
Web webmaster@microimages.com
| |
