ArcGIS Extensions for Mapping Agencies

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging (GA, USA) has released Leica ArcGIS Extensions, Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS 9.2 and Image Analysis for ArcGIS 9.2. The updated capabilities and enhancements were designed keeping mapping agencies in mind. From the makers of Leica Photogrammetry Suite, Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS is a stereo feature collection and update tool built on the ArcGIS platform. Requiring only the extension and ArcGIS itself, the software is designed to make it affordable for agencies and companies to deploy a number of licenses on workstations for users focused on feature extraction. With this release, Leica aims to extend the support for various photogrammetry package formats and improved the software’s support for extremely large datasets.

Image Analysis for ArcGIS, a tool for extracting updated information from imagery directly into a database, has also been enhanced to enable all of the extension’s image processing functions as geoprocessing functions. Enabling the processes in ArcToolbox allows the individual functions to be strung together to complete a workflow.

Image Analysis for ArcGIS and Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS are currently available for download from the Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Web site. Shipping will begin in the first quarter of 2007.