• projects for aerial, close range, satellite, IFSAR, and orthophoto imagery 
• DAT/EM CAPTURE interface for AutoCAD and MicroStation
• STEREO CAPTURE for ArcGIS interface to ArcGIS
• subpixel functionality
• frame sequential imaging
• compatibility with color or grayscale images
• ability to display color as grayscale
• project-based user interface
• active project overview
• real-time panning and zooming
• on-the-fly epipolar resampling
• auto interior/auto relative orientations
• import third-party aerotriangulation results
• stereo SUPER/IMPOSITION of vectorized 3D data
• stereo SUPER/IMPOSITION clip scope
• stereo model bird's-eye view
• stereo close-up view
• customizeable toolbars and CAD buttons
• 3 panning modes
• 3 viewing modes
• OpenGL for image rendering
• user-definable cursors
• snap and align - to ground function
• file import wizard
• DEM terrain following
• CAD command view and CAD tool bar

Software Features - Project Management   

Summit Evolution 's project-based information management employs Microsoft-compliant windows and dialogue boxes that provide easy access to any location on any model.

SUMMIT EVOLUTION provides the user with tools to manage large bundle-adjusted projects as well as smaller projects consisting of single stereo pairs.Users can roam seamlessly throughout an entire bundle-adjusted project as well as a single stereo model.

... Microsoft-compliant windows and dialogue boxes that provide easy access to any location on any model.

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Software Features - Orientation
SUMMIT EVOLUTION supports the standard orientation method of interior, relative, and absolute. It also provides exterior orientation, on-the-fly epipolar adjustments, importing aerotriangulation, and z indexing. SUMMIT EVOLUTION supports the following aerotriangulation packages: Albany, PATB, Aerosys, Phorex, BLUH and BINGO. In addtion, aerial, Leica ADS40 Airborne sensor, Z/I's DMC (Digital Mapping Camera), Satellite RPC (Rational Polynomial Coefficient), IFSAR (Inter Ferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) sensor, close range, and orthophoto projects are supported. The availability of interior, relative, and absolute orientation allows the easy transition of analytical stereoplotter operators to the digital photogrammetric workstation.

Interior Orientation: Interior orientation transforms scanned pixel coordinates into photo coordinates. SUMMIT EVOLUTION includes the option to perform either manual or automatic interior orientation. With automatic interior, a fiducial patch may only be measured one time per camera. This means that if all of your projects use the same camera, you'll never have to measure the fiducial patch again. Simply open the project and process with one click in the auto interior dialogue box.

Relative Orientation: Relative orientation aligns the two images of a stereo pair so that they can be viewed in stereo. This can be done with either manual or automatic relative orientation. The manual procedure is simple and easy to use, featuring an auto align command and other options that makes even the manual relative orientation into a semiautomatic process.

Absolute Orientation: Absolute orientation creates three-dimensional ground coordinates within relatively oriented stereo pairs.

Exterior Orientation: Exterior orientation creates three dimensional ground coordinates without the need to perform relative and absolute orientations. Exterior orientation works by importing exterior orientation parameters (X,Y,Z, omega, phi, kappa) from files such as those derived from the Applanix POS/AV system or from aerotriangulation packages.An import wizard provides easy access to a multitude of file formats.

Software Features - Subpixel

Software Features - Images
Image tiling is extremely quick,with real-time panning and zooming. With its ability to load only the parts of the image that are currently being viewed, SUMMIT E VOLUTION provides the same level of performance regardless of image size. SUMMIT E VOLUTION also has the same memory requirements regardless of how large an image (with images up to 2GB per file).Additionally, SUMMIT E VOLUTION offers on-the-fly image adjustments and histogram equalization.

SUMMIT EVOLUTION can use the following file formats, either directly or by converting them to a tiled GeoTif file format: Multi-image-tiled TIF and other TIF files, GeoTIF, ADS40 TIF, DMC TIF, JPG, BMP, SMTI format, TGA, TJP, PCX,ECW, with more file formats added with new releases.

Software Features - GUI Elements
SUMMIT EVOLUTION features customizable toolbars, menus, dockable bird's-eye and close-up views for quick reference of location within a model, and an easy-to-use project management window andproject overview tool.