What's new in SURE 5.1

Produce sharp and consistent True Orthophotos for all of your project scenarios out of the box with SURE 5.1, including challenging image input containing reflections, moving objects, and other inconsistencies. SURE 5.1 also revolutionizes network processing by leveraging available compute and storage resources more efficiently than ever before, which enables you to deliver your results faster and reduce energy and cost in the office and in the cloud.

New True Ortho Module

SURE 5.1 produces True Orthos that serve your business needs with impressive sharpness and consistency.

• Clean edges with high resilience against noise

  • Gain improved edges and derive better results including edges along challenging shadow areas

• More consistent colors and a calmer appearance

  • Experience a new True Ortho that intelligently manages varying temporal and lighting conditions from input imagery

• Automatic handling of challenging input data

  • Benefit from reduced reflections on glass surfaces and water

  • Moving objects are filtered automatically

• Produce 8-bit True Orthos by default

  • To account for the fact that True Ortho and other raster results are most commonly requested as 8-bit, SURE now produces True Ortho and other raster products as 8-bit by default. Note: Whenever 16-bit input images are used, all results can optionally still be produced at 16-bit

Next Level Network Processing

Significantly reduce manual effort, disk space requirements, and time to delivery using the entirely reworked distributed processing capabilities of SURE 5.1. Images can be prepared in an optimized fashion to a user-defined network folder, from which required portions of each image are intelligently loaded and cached by the relevant processing node. This significant optimization enables SURE to work with maximum efficiency from both central and distributed file storage systems.

• Simplify your workflow | Export and store your imagery as you need it

  • Input imagery can remain in its original destination on the network with no manual interaction required to copy images to a designated location for processing

  • SURE will prepare your imagery in a way that is optimized for minimum storage and quick data transfer by using a compression that maintains quality

• Higher Resource Efficiency | Reduce node disk space requirements by up to 60%

  • Smart access structures load and cache only the minimum required portion of each image on the nodes

  • Significantly decreased network load and node hardware recommendations

• Faster time to delivery | Reduce total processing time by up to 20%

  • Processing nodes start processing almost immediately after subproject generation, as image data is accessed on demand during processing

  • Network-optimized images are faster to read and write using smart partitioning, caching and highly optimized parallel reading techniques, reducing image preparation and overall processing time

More efficient resource usage

Experience reduced disk space and better resource usage independently from our Next Level Network Processing optimization. Large projects are faster to set up both in the graphical user interface (GUI) and command line interface (CLI) due to reduced data ingest and image preparation time.

• Reduced disk space for single-node projects

  • Up to 60% smaller project folder size for 3D Mesh projects

  • Up to 20% smaller project folder size for True Ortho projects

• Faster project launch time

  • Up to 60% faster image preparation for 16-bit uncompressed imagery on an SSD-Raid

Usability & Compatibility

• New Mesh Export Options for optimal compatibility with third-party software

  • OBJ Mesh files can be exported in a local coordinate system with an optional manual offset

  • Texture names are unique and small meshes can be exported as a single file

• Increased resiliency of distributed processing against unexpected interruptions

  • Independently of whether the power went off or a distributed processing session was canceled manually, SURE will start again from where it stopped

• Simplified image handling in modular workflows

  • Image lists can now be utilized in the True Orthophoto, 3D Mesh and Mesh texturing modules

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