Infoterra Pixel Factory

Infoterra France, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EADS Astrium has released 3.2 of its Pixel Factory photogrammetric system. This new version includes numerous processes to increase the efficiency and productivity of users. The Second Generation Mosaic tool helps to update existing digital orthophotos: the process extracts all parameters required for automatic bundle adjustment and radiometric adaptation from the reference database.

Another major advancement is the Workflow Editor, a fully graphical interface to help users create, store and re-use their own production workflows. Parallel and conditional executions are included. Other major highlights of the 3.2 release of the Pixel Factory include a number of tools to help the integration of Pixel Factory into user's existing information system with the automatic execution of external production orders and external application integration.

The new version also improves the export and import of data of various types with, among others, the integration of new formats for georeferenced imagery and the interactive settings of external and internal orientation of frame data, thereby optimizing production efficiency.

This release also expands the image processing capability of the Pixel Factory, with a range of new supported sensors: Kompsat-2, Daichi (ALOS) PRISM (with RPC and pushbroom), Daichi (ALOS) AVNIR-2, EROS B -1A, Worldview-1 and UltraCam-X. TerraSAR-X, CartoSat-1 and -2 and RessourceSat will be available in the coming months.