SURE 4 introduced usability and internal changes directed towards improving the customer experience and the quality of the results. This document aims to provide you with detailed information regarding what changed between SURE 3 and SURE 4.
Due to the new improved project structure and workflows, SURE 3 Projects or older cannot be loaded in SURE 4.
General Changes
The Dense Cloud and Cloud Filter processing steps were renamed to Dense Matching and Point Cloud respectively.
Merging of 3D Mesh and 3D Mesh Texturing into one single Processing Step.
Consistent and intuitive naming of results
The main products from the 2.5D workflow were renamed and moved to the Results folder.
SURE 3 | SURE 4 |
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DSM/DSM_Interpolated | Results/DSM/tif |
DSM/Cloud_Interpolated | Results/DSM/las |
DSM/Ortho_Refined | Results/True_Ortho |
DSM/Cloud_Refined | Results/DSM/las |
The main products from the 3D workflow were renamed and moved to the Results folder.
SURE 3 | SURE 4 |
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Cloud_Filtered | Results/Point_Cloud |
Mesh | Results/Mesh |
Some parameters have been automated (optimal values are stored internally, depending on the scenario). Therefore, they have been removed from the interface.
Consistent and intuitive naming of options.
Project Folder Structure
The naming and location of SURE 4 results make it easy to find the right products. Additionally, the SURE 4 folder structure condenses all intermediate and configuration files into a separate folder.
See also Project Folder Structure.
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
In SURE 4 the GUI has been adapted as well, following the same principles stated above.
Command Line Interface (CLI) Flags
General remarks:
The table below is structured according to the old list of Command Line options. Its purpose is to track the correspondence between old and new versions of CLI arguments. For the exhaustive list of CLI flags and for a more intuitive and readable enumeration, please consult the SURE version 4 Command Line Interface article.
short flags (one letter) are preceded by one dash sign ('-')
longer flags are preceded by two dash signs ('--')
in the longer flags, individual words are separated by one dash sign ('-')