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1. Welcome to the PHOTOMOD 5 installation program It is recommended to close all running programs before continuing installation WARNING This product is protected by copyright laws Unauthorized copying and or distribution of this product or any of its parks is prohibited PHOTOMOD 5 0 943 En Net Back Cancel e Step 2 Read the license agreement If you agree with it check the box opposite the appropriate option and push the Next button Installing PHOTOMOD 5 End User License Agreement The present License agreement determines End Users rights and duties concerning use of the software PHOTOMIOD Installation and beginning of the software use means End Users consent with the present License Agreement conditions l Copyright protection All copyrights concerning the software PHOTOMOL hereinafter Product whichis a photogrammetric software including program modules intended for processing of clase range photogrammetry data airborme and space borne data belong to the legal Owner hereinafter Queer to Closed joitt M_I accept the terms in the Licence Agreement PHOTOMOD 5 0 3943 En Net lt Back Cancel e Step 3 Select the target folder to install the program files of PHOTOMOD system C Program Files usually 2014 6 General Information 2014 Installing PHOTOMOD 5 l Installation program will place Files in the specified Folder IF the product had been insta
2. ca PHOTOMOD initial setup window Top field is used to define settings folder By default this is PHOTOMODS VAR folder which is specified during PHOTOMOD system installation The PHOTOMODS5 VAR folder is used to store all configuration and temporary files it is the same for all installed PHOTOMOD modules on workstation regardless of number of PHOTOMOD copies installed in different folders See chapter PHOTOMOD5 VAR configurations folder Centralised profile management window is used to create new settings folder for network profiles with following definition of resources trees of network profiles as well as to connect to existing configuration repository to provide access to network profiles on workstations lt is necessary to gain an access to network profiles in just created central control folder and have opportunity to work with them specify configuration folder of network profiles in Centralised management folder field and enable Use option The Manage network profiles button becomes available which can edit profiles or create new ones But it s the administrated who is supposed to specify the central control folder and to create network profiles and in this case the user s intervention into network profiles structure may cause serious problems Press the OK button after specifying the centralised management folder The profiles list in the Control Panel window will display all the network profiles which are configured by
3. Cancel selection i B2 TA Immersion BS Correlate A 4 a Immersion 41 Delete segment Immersion 42 Immersion 43 A3 A1 Immersion 44 I ion LM eles LM Ad RM Immersion SoftMouse buttons setup To assign new macro to chosen mouse bution select the action in Macros list then select mouse button in the Available buttons list and assign the action to the button by pushing the icon Add binding or by double mouse click If you need to cancel the assignment push the icon Delete binding When all necessary actions are assigned to the mouse buttons you can save this actions Ee configuration to the default driver by the button Save or to the new one by the button t Save as 14 2 3 GeoMouse Photogrammetric 3D manipulator GeoMouse is used for moving and precise positioning of measuring marker in X Y Z axes and quick launching of frequently using functions while digital photogrammetric processing of images stereopairs Note Turn off your PC prior to GeoMouse plug in Insert mouse s USB connector into PS 2 port using special adapter Then insert RS 232 connector into one of PC com ports and turn PC on Manipulator has 16 functional buttons and any three of them could be programmed as standard mouse buttons You can use the manipulator simultaneously with the standard mouse After installation of GeoMouse to your PC turn PC on and run PHOTOMOD System Monitor module Then o
4. is pressed to The following tools are available to select the source files in Files section E select all files in the given folder EF _ cancel selection for all files invert selection Refresh button allows updating the lists of folders files in case of edits in structure files during launch PHOTOMOD Raster Converter Toolbar of List section contains the following buttons E Select all images in the list Unselect all selected images v Filter files by file extension to display only images of supported raster formats the default filter state is on Di Add files to the list Invert selection Exclude files from the list a Remove all files from the list amp View rasters with overview pyramid present only allows to show in preview window rasters with created pyramid by default this button is pressed ae View all rasters when selecting a raster file without pyramid the temporary pyramid is created automatically then image is displayed in preview window E View images using radiometric correction parameters by default the button is pressed i Open the Radiometric correction window see also chapter Radiometric correction of images Il _ Load correction parameters for selected images using correction parameters which have been saved in rmc file for the selected images 3 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Rus
5. 3 Personal computer requirements 3 1 General recommendations Computer configuration needed to work with PHOTOMOD system essentially depends on the class and amount of tasks which will be solved using PHOTOMOD system Recommended configuration for comfortable work is shown in the following table System Component Recommended Configuration Processor Intel Core 2 Quad 3 GHz or equivalent RAM 4 GB for Win64 Video Based on NVIDIA Quadro FX 570 or higher StereoPixel LcReflex 20 3D monitor Samsung Monitor Syncmaster 2233RZ or equivalent with ability to work at a 120Hz frequency Hard disk IDE SATA 1000 GB Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 For the hard lock key an USB port is required for local PHOTOMOD version or network connection for network version 3 2 CPU CPU processing power is not too critical for most tasks solved with PHOTOMOD system If it planned to create large quantity of DIM TIN DEM using correlator in this case picket computing speed is approximately proportional to CPU speed and it is recommended to choose the most high speed model For most other tasks it is currently recommended to use systems based on Intel Core 2 Duo 2 66 GHz or equivalent and pay greater attention to other system components according to recommendations given in the sections below Currently PHOTOMOD system is optimized to work on multiprocessor or multicore systems Using such systems can sign
6. Brightness Contrast Gamma window To adjust the color balance of image the window opened by pressing the button Color Balance is used Color balance of images may be adjusted in the direction of blue red purple green yellow or blue The overall brightness is not changed Also the balance shift for each color component can be entered in numerical form from 100 to 100 43 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 i Color balance Cyan Red Magenta Feen Yellow Blue Jw On Fly wot svn Color balance window The button i Filters opens a window designated to improve the visual qualities of the source image with the help of various filters Filter type Blur rue E Filtering level 0 100 Gn Fly not ty Filters window In the Filter type drop down list select the type of processing There are the following filters available Blur for blurring the details of the source image Gaussian blue another type of smoothing filter the distinguishing feature of which is that the transfer characteristic is not a linear function as in the first case but a part of the Gauss function Bell Sharpen allows user to highlight and sharpen the distinction between the different parts of the image Sharpen edges the same as sharpen filter but filtering is performed only when brightness difference between image details is above a
7. FHOTOMOD GeoMosaic p 50 h 50 PHOTOMOD Mosaic p 50 h 50 PH TOMOD StereoYectOr p 50 h 50 PFHOTOMOD Solvers p 50 h 50 PHOTOMOD Solvers p 50 h 50 PHOTOMOD ScanCoreck Login eror Ho module p h 50 PHOTOMUD MD p 50 7 h 50 Licence info Licence info window will open as a result of executing menu command You can see the key ID in the Serial number line It must match the number on the label which is glued on the key In addition the number of licenses for a particular module of the system written directly to the hard lock key p and thePhConst50 dll file h must also be identical Otherwise you should contact the RACURS Company technical support service 7 PHOTOMOD System Monitor module After PHOTOMOD sysiem installation PHOTOMOD System Monitor module is launched It is visualized in OS Windows System tray as an icon If the module was not launched for some reason you should start PHOTOMOD Core from Windows Start menu Start Programs PHOTOMOD PHOTOMOD 5 0 13 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 PHOTOMOD Mosaic Explorer Control Panel Raster Converter Distributed processing control center Start automatically Profile b Mouse configuration About Licence info Exit Pop up menu of PHOTOMOD System Monitor Context menu of PHOTOMOD System Monitor module is opened after ri
8. File Format orrection parameters olor depth ompression MS TIFF Save separately Auto C No sbit JPEG with quality 100 Yo C TIFF Apply to image C 16bit C Law MegaTIFF C Auto C Always on Always off Output Folder File names When output file exists Same as input Folder rT F SubDiski Tmp LionPointTest Ccny EA C PHOTOMOD resources Dutput files placement Add prefix Choose new name automatically Skip Add suffix Overwrite if not same as input A rename if same as input V Cache files smaller than 600 MB Convert Distributed processing Close PHOTOMOD Raster Converter window Program PHOTOMOD Raster Converter has the following functions Convert images in different raster formats to files in PHOTOMOD MS TIFF internal format Convert rasters in PHOTOMOD MS TIFF format and other formats into standard TIFF files Convert 8 16 bit images Convert to uncompressed or JPEG compressed images of varying quality as well as LZW without loss of quality Convert rasters larger than 4 GB to MegaTIFF format Apply radiometric correction to improve visual properties of images Convert to specified local or network folder in order to connect it into profile resources to add rasters from resources or to place converted files directly into resources of active profile Use distributed processing Selecting and viewing source images
9. Source images may have following raster formats e Tag Image File Format TIFF TIFF including the 12 bit rasters from DMC camera and Geoliff format which contains special section tags for georeferencing data record e Windows Bitmap File BMP also supported input 4 bit palette image e VectOr Raster Maps RSW PHOTOMOD VectOr system e raster formats e ERDAS IMAGINE IMG ERDAS raster format e NITF NITF 2014 36 General Information 2014 JPEG JPEG GIF GIF PNG PNG JPEG2000 JP2 PCIDSK PIX raster format with georeferenced in title developed by PCI Geomatics In Folders and Files sections select image files and using button add them to files list to convert In this way a list can be formed from the set of files located in different local or network folders as well as on different drives converting them to selected folder In order to display source images with higher image display performance in preview window in the Preview pane or in Radiometric correction window see chapter Radiometric correction of images it is necessary to create a temporary pyramid Temporary pyramid is created automatically when user selects file without pyramid using with View all the images z button pressed The Pyramid subfolder with overview files is created in the folder of of source file Temporary pyramid is also created automatically when button display the image in Radiometric correction window
10. 9 1 Local processing In case of local work i e if there is only one PHOTOMOD workplace or only one operator works with each project and data exchange is not required between workstations it is recommended for each workstation to organize custom ocal profile with all the resources which allows to fully use the advantage of faster local disk access as compared to network access i e when virtual folders of local profile are located on disks of other workstations See also chapters PHOTOMOD resources system and Creating resources system In the following example the nfoMap local profile with two virtual folders for resource allocation for project files and images is created The same workstation s local disk contains both folders 2014 18 General Information 2014 ioj x Profile Resources roriles Service Help BSource Cree N SSS amp virtual Folder 4 2 Belgiurns fox dtrni_stdraw cz Errors fay InfoMap 4 Local profile fay Lyon extern fag lyon Emp E Meridian 9 2 Network processing 877 44 GB Images OB E IMAGES 240 45 GB 673 51 GB Projects 240 45 GB D Projects 168 71 GB OB 308 41 GB 0B 240 45 GB Example of creating local profile on workstation Data projects storage system focused on distributed network processing is one of the distinguishing features of PHOTOMOD system In case of network processing of projects working with profile it is perfor
11. Adjust video color settings 2 Apply the following settings Adjust video image settings Connector DVI PC display ge Refresh rate Add Resolutions j ALAA O CACTeMe Refresh rate settings Then you should set Stereo display mode to Standard active stereo using NVIDIA IR emitter Note the mode becomes available provided that the glasses drivers are correctly installed and the R emitter connected to USB port 2014 58 General Information 2014 Navenb ynpasnenma NVIDIA Dain paska Bug CnpasKa aoe e PacWwMpeHHbll Bolbepute sagayy agnam aN F EER fey Manage 3D Settings Adjust image settings with preview ae You can change the global 3D settings and create overides for specific programs The ovenides will be used automatically each heset PhysX configuration time the specified programs are launched Display l Change resolution I kd like to use the following 3D setti Adjust desktop color settings Adjust desktop size and position Rotate display Global Settings i L Miew HDCP status Set up multiple displays Global presets Stereoscopic 3D E Restore Set up stereoscopic 30 View compatibility with games Settings l Video Adjust video color settings Feature Adjust video image settings BOCCTAHOBHTE Maximize texture memory Off Maximum pre endered frames 3 Multi display mixed GPU acceleration Multiple display performance mode Power m
12. After device s installation to your PC turn PC on and run PHOTOMOD System Monitor module Then open the window with mouse settings menu command Service Mouse setup in PHOTOMOD Core module push the Device setup button and select Immersion compatible hand wheels foot pedals in Used mice field see the chapter Mice and hand wheels adjustment for stereo processing Then in Device parameters panel select its COM port and baud rate You can adjust hand wheels sensitivity in XY axes using XY plane sensitivity slider and also foot wheel movement sensitivity which operates marker in Z axis using Z sensitivity slider If you need to re assign X and Y axes to left and right hand wheels check the option Swap X and Y And if you need to invert movement of marker by right left or foot wheels check an appropriate option Invert X Y or Z motion Mouse configuration l 0 x Changes made in this window define how selected pointing device works for all applications on this computer sed mice Standard mouse and Immersion compatible hand wheels foot pedals Standard mouse button actions assignment Standard mouse button actions can not be assigned to the buttons of this device Moving mouse cursor with the wheels will work For all applications on this computer while PHOTOMOD System Monitor is running Device parameters COM port 1 J xY plane sensitivity Invert Z motion C a ee Wl lee oo
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14. Srini as_import 12 08 7009 1 Tests 27 11 2009 1 World iew1 30 11 2009 1 bes NpoeKta ae F Filter be CHCTEMbI KOOpAMHAT i KAMEPHAA 48 resources 638 436 156 bytes selected 0 resources 0 bytes E PHOTOMOD Explorer program 8 1 PHOTOMOD5 VAR configurations folder Unlike the PHOTOMOD installation folder usually C Program Files PHOTOMODS which does not contain any modified files a separate PHOTOMODS5 VAR folder usually C PHOTOMOD5 VAR which is also created upon system installation is intended for storing all variable data not related to the resources system Folder path is stored in the registry PHOTOMOD5 VAR folder is used for storing various configuration files temporary files and other files PHOTOMODS5 VAR folder is the same for all installed PHOTOMOD modules on workstation regardless of anumber of PHOTOMOD copies PHOTOMODS5 VAR folder also contains sets of configuration files related to profiles Each profile has a separate corresponding subfolder All variable data in PHOTOMOD5 VAR folder is divided into common data and specific profile related data All configuration files are in XML format Let s discuss the structure of PHOTOMOD5 VAR folder in more details PHOTOMOD5 VAR folder contains e Policy x ini file with the most common configuration settings for example active profile name name and location of central repository connected etc AutoSave folder for storing autosave data Config folder
15. and assign the action to the button by pushing the icon Add binding or by double mouse click If you need to cancel the assignment push the icon Delete binding When all necessary actions are assigned to the mouse buttons you can save this actions EP configuration to the default driver by the button Save or to the new one by the button Save as 14 2 4 Stealth 3D Mice 14 2 4 1 Stealth 3D Mouse U After installation of Stealth 3D Mouse U produced by ABS software developers company http Awww gcs abc com to USB port of your PC turn PC on and run PHOTOMOD System Monitor module Then open the window with mouse settings menu command Service Mouse setup in PHOTOMOD Core module push the Device setup button and select Stealth 3D Mouse U in Used mice field see the chapter Mice and hand wheels adjustment for stereo processing 67 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 sed mice Changes made in this window define how selected pointing device works for all applications on this computer Standard mouse and RTE ee Standard mouse button actions assignment Standard mouse button actions can not be g Mi assigned to the buttons of this device LMR LMR Device parameters COM port 7 Ai Plane sensitivity a J T F Invert Z motion Rad gl Vi a Jet a st aoe at ft Ue 1 Baud rate 7 2 sensitivity n M Swap and ala
16. be amp E IV Driver active Macros list Available buttons 3D snapping cee Standard mouse Hand wheels foot pedals Yector A EOMZ Cancel selection Vector A Pedal 2 Correlate Yector 4 Pedal 3_ Delete segment Setup of foot pedals Vector A This window contains list of macro s existing in default driver or created edited by the user in Macro editor see the chapter Macro editor The rightmost window contains of two tabs one of which allows to setup standard mouse buttons see the chapter Three and five button mice and on the second one Hand wheels foot pedals Vector A marker s actions after pressing each of three pedals To assign new macro or existing to chosen pedal select the action in Macros list then select pedal in the Available buttons list and assign the action to the pedal by pushing the icon Add binding or by double mouse click If you need to cancel the assignment push the icon Delete binding When all necessary actions are assigned to the pedals you can save this actions Brn configuration to the default driver by the button Save or to the new one by the button t Save as You can also create new action if necessary and save it into macro in Macro editor window which is opened by the button editor in the Mouse setup window see the chapter Macro 14 2 6 Macro editor PHOTOMOD system includes
17. do not convert the image Overwrite if not same as input rename if same as input overwrite if the file in the target folder is not the input file of the conversion process or generate a new name automatically otherwise After all settings made press the Convert button or use Distributed processing 11 2 Radiometric correction of images Sometimes images which are added to PHOTOMOD projects do not possess the characteristics sufficient for comfortable viewing and analysis This may be due to the peculiar properties of the optical path of surveying devices radiant energy converter analog digital converter etc Such images require radiometric preprocessing dealing with improvement of their visual characteristics The common case is with 16 bit images which in their raw form look plain black in this case auto levels correction is minimum requirement Radiometric processing of images may be performed either on preparatory image conversion stage in PHOTOMOD Raster Converter or directly within PHOTOMOD Core when adding images into the project in Add images window it contains nearly all the functions of Raster Converter see the documentation to PHOTOMOD Core To open Radiometric correction window select the file in the list of files to convert and press the button a or double click on the file name in the list For higher image display performance in the preview window a temporary pyramid is created if it had not been created befo
18. etc are recommended only if there is a qualified person system administrator who will deal with configuration and maintenance Otherwise the complexity associated with the problems caused by using that devices can substantially exceed the positive effects of their use Since PHOTOMOD system supports automatic distribution of project data on multiple disks the general recommendation is to use multiple hard drives the average size 500 GB 3 5 Network adapter Network connection speed of at least 100 Mbits sec is required for network processing when projects are located on remote computers In the case of simultaneous work of large number gt 10 workstations with one server it s recommended to connect the server to the hub through 1 Gbit network interface 4 Installation starting and deinstallation To install the PHOTOMOD system 400 MB of free hard disk space is required for program files Before the initial installation of PHOTOMOD system user should install hard lock key on a local or network station for the installation of PHOTOMOD local or network version respectively The hard lock key is included in the PHOTOMOD distribution kit See also chapter Protection Before the network version installing of the system user should also install or upgrade the HASP HL license manager Imsetup exe file from the LManager folder from the PHOTOMOD distribution on the computer to which the network key is connected During the insta
19. ots Click the icon in Control Panel window or select menu Resources Connect folder to connect to new virtual folder Then Connect virtual folder window opens In the top field enter name of virtual folder Contents allows user to define local or network regular folder or group of regular folders to connect as virtual folder Enable Folder option push the button and select regular folder to connect local or network regular folder 2014 26 General Information 2014 Connect virtual folder Jo irtual Folder name f Images onkenks f Folder fe Storage group Connect virtual folder window Cancel Edit e Enable Storage group option and push the Edit button to connect group of storages Then Edit list of storages window opens which contains the following toolbar buttons el _ Create connect storage It allows user to create new storage or connect existing It opens Browse folders window to select regular storage folder If new storage is connected then Storage identifier dialog window opens where it is necessary to input a unique storage name which can consist of digits and latin letters The PhStorage x ini file is created in the selected folder as well as storage identifier and list all identifiers of created group of storages If existing storage is connected then identifier already assigned to storage is read automatically See chapter Storages SA Eg a a Remove storage from the list It a
20. using appropriate radio button Use Standard mouse button actions assignment panel to the right to assign actions of the standard mouse buttons to the Immersion SoftMouse Select Immersion SoftMouse button in Button column button names and their location are shown on leftward picture and in the appropriate cell of Assignment column select necessary button of usual mouse by double click in the following way The first double click will assign left button click Symbol L will be shown in the Assignment cell the next double click will assign left button click symbol R will be shown in the Assignment cell the next one middle button click symbol M Such assignment as well as marker move by Immersion SoftMouse will be valid for all applications on your PC while PHOTOMOD System Monitor is running After that push Apply and OK and open Macro editor in Mouse setup window if you need to create new macro see the chapter Macro editor 2014 64 General Information 2014 Then return to Mouse setup window and assign new or existing macro to necessary button or button combination by selecting it in Available buttons list choose button combination by mouse with pressed Ctrl or Shift keys see the chapter Three and five button mice E engl_var ConfigMouseConfig mcf Mouse setup oj xi Be amp NV Driver active Macras list Available buttons Standard mouse Immersion SoftMouse
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23. In fact you can setup any mouse emulating the standard 5 button one To set up your mouse or hand wheels foot pedals select menu item Service Mouse setup in PHOTOMOD Core module to bring up the Mouse setup window 2014 60 General Information 2014 E engl_var ConfigMouseConfig mcf Mouse setup Oj x Li amp IV Driver active Macros list Available buttons Standard mouse Mouse setup window This window is used to set up any mouse buttons or foot pedals for executing operator s actions during stereo processing and then to save these settings in special file mouse driver for further use Driver with standard mouse actions is loaded by default it is storing in PHOTOMOD VAR Config MouseConfig mcf this path is shown in the window title and could be used as a template for creating and saving customized settings Upper button bar contains icons used for the following operations O new configuration allows to create new configuration of settings for selected mouse as described below open opens the dialogue for choosing and opening file with mouse driver save saves mouse configuration change into current driver Ee save as Saves new configuration of mouse buttons or changed current configuration in new driver file to specified disk location Macro editor opens Macro editor window see the chapter Macro editor Pa Dev
24. NetHasp ini file to Windows OS program folder usually C Windows during installation of network version of PHOTOMOD to workstation This file contains computer name where the HASP hard lock key is installed If hard lock key has been moved to another computer it is necessary to replace previous computer s name with a new one or IP address in the appropriate line of the ini file All running PHOTOMOD modules must be restarted after changing the ini file a Lister C WINDOWS nethasp ini oj x File Edit Options Help 100 HH_COMHONH 3 This NetHASP INI file is configured to TCPIP 3 Please note that you will have to enter the address of the NetHASP key station HH_TCPIP Enabled Use the TCP IP protocol NH_IPX Disabled NH_TCPIP NH_SESSION 8 NH_SEND_RCU 4 NH_SERUER_ADDR aiI gt IP addresses of all the NetHASP License Managers you want to search Unlimited addresses and multiple lines are possible Possible address format examples IP address 192 114 176 065 Local Hostname ftp aladdin co il NH_TCPIP_HMETHOD UDP send a TCP packet or UDP packet Default UDP NH_USE_BROADCAST Disabled gt Use TEPI IP Broadcast mechanism Default Enabled Disabled EE 23 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Example of nethasp ini file The figure displays an example of nethasp ini file and computer name with hard lock key is highlighted i
25. Stealth 3D Mouse S2 Z setup in Mouse configuration window Use Standard mouse button actions assignment panel to the right to assign actions of the standard mouse buttons to the Stealth 3D Mouse Z Select the Stealth 3D Mouse Z button in Button column button names and their location are shown on leftward picture and in the appropriate cell of Assignment column select necessary button of usual mouse by double 2014 70 General Information 2014 click in the following way The first double click will assign left button click symbol L will be shown in the Assignment cell the next double click will assign left button click symbol R will be shown in the Assignment cell the next one middle button click symbol M Such marker move assigned to Stealth 3D Mouse Z will be valid for all applications on your PC while PHOTOMOD System Monitor is running After that push Apply and OK buttons and open Macro editor in Mouse setup window if you need to create new macro see the chapter Macro editor Then return to Mouse setup window and assign new or existing macro to necessary button or button combination by selecting it in Available buttons list choose button combination by mouse with pressed Ctrl or Shift keys see the chapter_Three and five button mice E engl_var ConfigMouseConfig mcf Mouse setup l B z Oj x BG B amp R ew IV Driver active Macros list i Available buttons Standard mouse Stealth 3D Mous
26. This profile must be network and connected to other Clients in order that they have been able to execute the tasks The list can be sorted by each field by clicking on the name field lf during the task execution an error occurs on any of network computers it s highlighted in yellow in the list In this case attempts will be made to perform the same tasks on other computers The task will remain in the queue with a Failed state until it is deleted manually if no computer in network is able to execute this task There are following operations on the tasks which are implemented by the toolbar buttons Button Operation Start selected tasks In order to start selected tasks a Client must be chosen in a list of the Computer field at first the Starting caption appears in the State field and then the progress bar indicating the progress of the task being executed in percents In this case priority will not be counted the selected tasks will be performed consistently according to the list wW Paused selected tasks the Paused caption appears in the State field Stop selected tasks completely stops the execution of task the Failed caption appears in the State field Reset selected tasks state the Waiting caption appears in the State field m Auto run tasks automatic distribution of tasks in the queue according to priority S between the Clients and launch of the tasks l e All tasks all connected Clients mode is implem
27. a folder in the virtual folder which contains several repositories these folders are created in all storages in the Content folder i e all storages will have the same structure and the same physical folders However contents of these folders are different because a resource could be presented in only one storage of the group Besides the table PhStorage list repository root also contains PhStorage x ini file containing information about the repository as well as temporary files which are used to lock storage table for read write operations Storage ID in resources system is written into PhStorage x ini file as well as a list of ID s of all other storages of the group This information is checked when virtual folder is initialized An additional point is that this storage format allows to relocate data easily between repositories One should just relocate necessary files and delete storage tables New PhStorage list table will be created automatically on the next attempt to access the virtual folder using the interface for working with resources Metadata for each resource are stored in file with resource name and meta extension Metadata file is always located in the same repository as the resource See chapter Distribution of resources on servers for an example of organization of work using repositories Description of connecting new or existing storages is located in chapter Virtual folders connecting 9 How to work
28. button close to it To move the selected nodal point move the marker holding down the Ctrl or Alt key 2014 42 General Information 2014 The transfer characteristic can be specified for each channel separately in the case of color images as well as for all channels at once set the check box For all Select active color channel Red Green Blue is in Channel drop down list For all the changes the transfer characteristic is immediately displayed in the image preview window if Preview checkbox is checked In addition there are the following buttons Restore linear dependence i Show grid al Show source histogram shown in gray bl Show destination histogram shown in white To completely restore all curves undo all changes use the Restore button Curves can be saved in a file with crv extention using the Save button in folder containing the input raster by default and apply saved transformations for other rasters using the Load button loading saved crv file After all the settings are done press the Apply button tt The button opens Brightness Contrast Gamma window designated for setting the corresponding characteristics for each image channel or for all channels at once Checked On fly option displays the raster changes on the fly without pressing the OK button i Brightness Contrast Gamma Channels All i Brightness SS Contrast amma aa a ae ae J aes Se Jw On Fly
29. file dialog appears for selecting name for the rmc file which would contain correction parameters by default the folder of the source image is offered to save into Then select images in the list Il which you wish to apply correction to and press button Load correction parameters for selected images An open file dialog is brought up Select the saved rmc file and press OK The described procedures are not the only place to adjust images other PHOTOMOD modules allow adjusting brightness gamma contrast and color balance images while PHOTOMOD Mosaic has advanced tools for radiometric correction Radiometric correction can be applied to images being added to PHOTOMOD project as well see documentation for PHOTOMOD Core description of adding images to project process which has functions identical to capabilities of PHOTOMOD Raster Converter 11 3 Image printing PHOTOMOD Raster Converter as well as Add images window in PHOTOMOD Core are Bs capable of printing raster images Press the Print button in the preview pane for the selected image to open the Print Image window 45 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 M Print Image S T S Bo 11 QQ jo xz E cBlck HRA E E gi 4 l l Printing settings window printer setup open printer selection and setup window Also activated by Ctrl C shortcut Ci parameters open Printing settings dialog s
30. for conversion and setting converting parameters press the Distributed Processing button Then the window opens in which should be specified number of tasks to be divided into files for processing For this rely on a number of images in the appropriate field as well as a number of Clients Also should be specified the network Synchronization folder available for reading saving for create task files must be specified full path to the folder Tasks which were posted displays in the Monitor for distributed processing window after the OK button pushing Monitor for distributed processing i E _ O x Tasks total 67 running 0 completed 8 gt umm Oo PIL State Priority Mame Createdat Started at Est time left OxDCBOEO Waiting Converting images task 4of4 25 05 2010 10 36 Meridian Ox430F4E Waiting Converting images task 3 of 4 25 05 2010 10 36 35 Meridian Ox34FC6E Waiting Converting images task 2 of 4 25 05 2010 10 36 35 Meridian Ox 22320 Waiting Converting images task 1 of 4 25 05 2010 10 36 34 Meridian ompukers gt Me 3 2 3 4 BE SMe IP address Current te Manx tasks PHOTOMOD version MASHA 192 165 2 14 0 HAMMER 192 165 2 46 RAZUYAMOVAM 192 168 2 116 Client Posting of four tasks for converting of images in the distributed processing mode Example 2 Specifics of tasks creation for automatic tie points measurement After settings all parameters for the process in th
31. for specific programs The ovenides will be used automatically each heset PhysX configuration time the specified programs are launched l Display Change resolution I kd like to use the following 3D setti Adjust desktop color settings Adjust desktop size and position Rotate display Global Settings Program Settings View HDCP status e t up multiple displays Stereoscopic 3D 30 App Default Global Settings Set up stereoscopic 3D View compatibility with games Settings El Video Adjust video color settings Feature Setting i Adjust video image settings Manage 3D Settings BOCCTAHOBHTE Global presets Conformant texture damp Use hardware Enable overlay Off Error reporting Off Exported pixel types Color indexed overlays 8 bpp Extension limit Off Maximize texture memory Off Maximum pre endered frames 3 Multi display mixed GPU acceleration Multiple display performance mode Power management mode Adaptive Stereo Display mode nView Clone mode Stereo Enable E Generic active stereo Color interleaved display Vertical interlaced stereo display Description Horizontal interlaced stereo display This listbox contains all of the features you can adju 3D DLP display can change the setting of a feature using the dropdown listbox besi 3D DLP display INV mode Tridelity SL SV display a Stereo display mode option for monitors like StereoPixel LcReflex 20 Planar etc The monitors are provided with speci
32. me E 192 168 2 16 on 2 2 The window displays information about tasks queue client computers load and allows managing the tasks execution 85 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 The window Is divided into two parts the upper group Tasks contains the table with the tasks list and a toolbar for managing the tasks the lower group Computers contains the table with list of participating computers Clients Monitors and a toolbar for managing the computers Screen contents are updated automatically every few seconds 15 5 1 Control of tasks list The Tasks group contains the table with the tasks list and a toolbar for managing the tasks Each task has the following attributes e ID unique identifier for each task e State The status of the task waiting paused performed in this case shows the percentage of task completion complete failed e Priority priority of the tasks integer the larger the number the higher the priority the tasks of higher priority are performed in the first place Name type of task and number in tasks list Created at the date and time of posting task Started at the data and time are displayed for started task Executor for started task the name of Client computer which executes it Est time left the approximate time before complete processing tasks Profile active Client profile at the time of posting of tasks
33. necessarily is active on all other network Clients lal x oldes iles selected 5 10 iew Es Nokan ancr D a f in Folder Daalen Mim D Aalen proj 1 1 ima S tiff tif E doc4_4_copy 5 aS E documentation 3 E 536 a 2 a 1 1 To_be_documen Name Size Type Modified a H QuickBird A 1 tiff tif 415413KB Waiin TIF 20 12 2007 13 37 e i A 2 tiff tik 415413KB avin TIF 20 12 2007 13 37 5 0 SZ 3 tiFF tif 415413KB alin TIF 20 12 2007 13 36 Bin SZ 4 tiff tif 415413KB alin TIF 20 12 2007 13 36 ig ai a A 5 tiFF tif 415413KB avin TIF 20 12 2007 13 36 i 7 SA 6 tiff tif 415413KB avin TIF 20 12 2007 13 34 2 a 7 tiff tif 415413 KB a n TIF 20 12 2007 13 34 _ 7 Bs 1 img BOM g et ly x S fy Aalen_DEM dat ist selected 0 5 E AT_BACKUP Fle Correction H D backup rar typun D Aalen proj 1 1 ing 1 tiff tif og gt Convert2PDF D Aalen proj 1 1 img 2 tiff tif fy ae i gt GQ FORMOSAT D Aalen proj 1 1 ima 3 tiff tif K2 oa _ W From Natasha D Aalen proj 1 1 imq 4 tiff tif iy TR EG FromNewgen D Aalen proj 1 1 img S5 tiff tif a 4 FromOldHDD Ri Aa ff GIS_Sofia ff GoogleP P X Na 1 48 W 7680 H 13824 0 000000 0 000000 Output format i Distributed image conversion ile Format orrection parameters Images number s MS TIFF Save separately Tasks numb
34. resources tree are virtual folders and it is impossible to create new regular folder at this hierarchical level Bi Connect folder Allows connecting new virtual folder Connect virtual folder window opens where it necessary to specify virtual folder name and match to him regular folder on drive blank or with data Is always created virtual folder at the top hierarchical level and all data folders and files belonging to regular folder become resources Create copy Allows user to copy resource under new name in same folder DE Rename Allows user to rename resource e Refresh Allows user to update resources which are modified using PHOTOMOD Explorer 33 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 T Show resources in subfolders Allows user to view all resources in all subfolders of selected folder or entire profile The list on the right side of the window shows all subfolders and all files of selected folder and path to them e One folder up Allows user to move one level up in resources tree In addition there is the ability to search needed files in resource system of profile Use bottom Filter field to do this Note 1 The tools should be used carefully to edit resource structure in PHOTOMOD Explorer window in order to avoid loss of needed resources belonging to project delete rename or move configuration files of projects et
35. system providing full photogrammetric production line from the aerial triangulation to output digital terrain models vector maps and orthomosaics PHOTOMOD system contains tools for processing aerial photos and scanner satellite images from different sensors such IKONOS QuickBird SPOT IRS ASTER FORMOSAT CARTOSAT etc Due to the system modular structure the user can choose the necessary configuration when purchasing the software Network system version opens wide opportunities of working with a project simultaneously from several workplaces PHOTOMOD system is produced by Racurs Co Moscow Russia and has been dynamically developing since version 1 3 in 1994 PHOTOMOD s growing user base includes organizations throughout more than 45 countries worldwide The main fields of application include photogrammetric production cadastral mapping cartography and remote sensing academic photogrammetry mining architecture and construction You can get the additional information about Racurs and PHOTOMOD from Racurs web site www racurs ru E mail info racurs ru Phone 7 495 720 5127 Fax 7 495 720 5128 Mail RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 Moscow Russia 2 Distribution kit The PHOTOMOD system distribution kit includes CD ROM containing the system setup files and the documentation files in PDF format Hard lock key 3 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3
36. the centralised repository specified Activate network profile press Apply restart all currently running PHOTOMOD modules and start your work On connecting the workstation to the central repository all the network profiles configurations stored in it are automatically copied to the local PHOTOMODS5 VAR folder This way the network profiles become accessible even when central repository is not available But the feature should be used very carefully to avoid corruption of data integrity working through the network later See chapter PHOTOMOD5 VAR configurations folder for more details 2014 30 General Information 2014 Control Panel Biel E Profile Resources Service Help Bsource tree pr Ee Danube_Images_mstilf Werojectz4 Miklos PhS Images_rrist 261 01 GB tz Errors 117 02 GB Images Tt Local 1 45 TE WPROJECTZ4 PhSDatal Images 429 83 tb tz Lyon 1 23 TE MeridianiImg1 Eg Lyon extern WPROJECTZ5 Meridianimal 27 71 GB Eg lyon tmp MeridianImg 224 TR oO a WPROJECTZ6 Meridianimgz 29 42 GB 674 61 GB MeridianiImg3 32767 aB WPROIECTZ4 Meridianimgs Eg 4rkh_Tests 173 53 GB Eg Belgium 703 39 GB 169 68 GB Manage network profiles e o Managing network profile is available only in network profiles management mode Network profile in Control panel window It is necessary to create new central repository with network profiles specify new local or network regular folder for storing configurati
37. the set of macro commands for mouse which could be edited up to user needs and then assign the commands for chosen mouse buttons or foot pedals if such special photogrammetric equipment is used for images stereo processing To open the window with macro list push the button in the Mouse setup window see the chapter Mice and hand wheels adjustment for stereo processing after that Macro editor window appears In the left part of the window there is a list of macro commands that are included into mouse driver by default 15 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Mouse setup Macro editor Ioj x Macros lis Actions an button dowr 3D snapping Actryate vertex BCG down BCG select BCG up Cancel selection Correlate Dee Delete segment Drag Enter Insert Release Delete key Insert before active vertex Lett Optimize TIN Pari Parallax Pan un mer Cancel Macro editor window Under the list of standard macro there are following buttons add macro opens a field to input new macro name After name input and pushing OK adds new macro in the list E delete macro deletes macro from the list copy macro creates new macro in the list as a copy of selected one e rename macro allows to rename macro name in opened field To create new macro push the button input new macro name then select this macro in the lef
38. AS A k Pes ME EK ES he Be ER OR Dt tel Ta A Invert motion f Invert motion wy cet Stealth 3D Mouse 1 U setup in Mouse configuration window Mouse configuration sed mice Changes made in this window define how selected pointing device works for all applications on this c a Standard mouse and OSES Standard mouse button actions assignment Standard mouse button actions can not be assigned to the buttons of this device Device parameters GoM port wi Plane sensitivity A H T F Invert Z motion Er Vs POUA Soto L eat ot Bet Uy Ts ee 1 Baud rate 2 sensitivity o Swap xand Y OB ea E a n 88 8 ON SB 8 da A invert motion F invert motion wy col Stealth 3D Mouse S2 U setup in Mouse configuration window After that push Apply and OK buttons and open Macro editor in Mouse setup window if you need to create new macro see the chapter Macro editor 2014 68 General Information 2014 Then return to Mouse setup window and assign new or existing macro to necessary button or button combination by selecting it in Available buttons list choose button combination by mouse along with pressed Ctrl or Shift keys see the chapter Three and five button mice E engl_var ConfigMouseConfig mcf Mouse setup as iol xi Be amp E IV Driver active Macros list 3D snapping Available buttons Standard mouse St
39. Digital Paotogrammetric System Version 5 3 USER MANUAL General Information G RACURS PHOTOMOD 5 3 1 PHOTOMOD system and RACURS Company ccsseceseeeeeeeeeeeessnseeeeeeeeeeessseeeeeseeooennneeeeenseeoes 3 2 USUI RU estes ate cere eee E E E NEE E es 3 3 Personal computer FEQUIFEMCING sssri EA Aa 4 31 General FECONMIMENCANONS arciiengesscctnocaueveanratdtetorenevenmeidcdsanciaed RETEA EET 4 T U e E E E E E E E E E E eda euasevesate eoe 4 SFAM i aA EEE EEA EEA E AE E EA E ONEEN AE E EEE AE E E A AAE 4 SAT e a E E E ee ee eee ee Tere ere ee 4 Sow 21104 de 6 ake een ee REE een es een EE A Se ey ee EA EEA ee ne eee ce 5 4 Installation starting and deinstallation cccccssssseeeseeesseeeeeeeenseeseeeesseeeeseeeseesseoeesseeesenensseessees 5 5 OOS ra es te eee see O 11 O ORCC FO ote ee ieee cre ate ce ene clei oe ce ene tse oe eee ot rents dee eee alec ee ewe va E EEEE 11 7 PHOTOMOD System Monitor module 1 0cccccccnsssssssesseceennnnssssesseeeennnsssssesseeeensnnnsssesseeeennnnees 13 SB PHOTOMOD resources SV SOI ie sc ccc densicces fcr tseeaca a tosenacznwadunstsreleaudsusinosecdsaqpecewcdsuins 15 8 1 PHOTOMODS VAR configurations FOIDCS 1sssccccccsseeseeceseaueeeeeesesueeeseesaaaueeesssauesesesssaanseseseas 17 CE 6 6c 6 21 gt S a E E A E A E A E eee ae eee ee 18 S FOW LO WOLK cio a E a E E 18 OF L aP OCES SI ae E TE EAE EAE V EEE A AEA E E 18 OZ NEUVO DOCS
40. FAR as an editor the command line should be E 1 However if a program requires only the filename as parameter the field may be left empty o Copy create a copy of the resource with a new name in the same folder duplicated ER by the button O OOO Rename rename the resource duplicated by the button Delete delete the resource New folder create new subfolder in the current folder Copy to clipboard copy resource identifier to clipboard so that it can be copied to O OOO another folder with the command Paste from clipboard duplicated by the button 2014 34 General Information 2014 o Paste from clipboard create a copy of a resource whose identifier has been saved to clipboard with the Copy to clipboard command above in the current folder duplicated by the button o Refresh refresh windows contents duplicated by the button Select all select all resources in the current folder o Show size in compact format show resource sizes in human readable form e g 1 MB instead of strict number of bytes e g 1048576 b O 11 Preparing images for processing in PHOTOMOD system For working with images in PHOTOMOD system it is recommended to use PHOTOMOD MS TIFF internal raster format which is the TIFF format with overview pyramid set of subsampled images copies for higher image display performance However it is possible as well to work with various formats of rasters di
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42. Synchronization folder should be specified further when posting tasks for processing III Setup Server computer as follows 1 Right click the G icon PHOTOMOD System Monitor in Windows system tray Choose Distributed processing control center in context menu The i icon of distributed processing center appears in Windows system tray 2 Right click the icon Choose Settings in context menu The Distributed processing setup window is opened Port for incoming connections 10000 kA Distributed processing dient Server name or IP address 127 0 0 1 Port for connecting to server 10000 kA Maximum tasks number ly kA Monitor uses the server name and port specified for the dient 3 Select the Use this computer as Distributed processing server checkbox and define the Port for incoming connections it is specified by default 4 optional Select the Use this computer as Distributed processing client checkbox in following cases 19 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 3 e To organize local distributed processing when you are going to process tasks using single multicore computer which is Server Client Monitor at the same time e In case of network distributed processing when you are going to use the Server not only for management but for tasks processing as a Client Address and port data of the Server are detected automatically and are used then to establish con
43. TOMOD The profile created is displayed in Profile list Creating new network profile is possible only in Network profiles management window provided that central control folder of network profiles centralized repository is connected using PHOTOMOD initial setup window See chapter Creating and connecting network profiles e oS Delete selected profile It allows deleting the local profile which is selected in the list and its resources structure However all resources are not removed physically and may be used to connect later using virtual folders to new or existing profiles The button is not available for network profile To delete network profile push the Manage network profiles button See chapter Creating and connecting network profiles g Create copy of selected profile It allows user to copy selected profile along with its resources structure and save it under new name It opens Copy Profile window which offers to specify new profile name When you copy network profile it creates local profile which inherits network profile resources structure Rename selected profile It allows user to rename selected in list ocal profile It opens Rename profile window which offers to specify new profile name The button is not available for network profile To rename network profile push the Manage network profiles button See chapter Creating and connecting network profiles a Activate selected profile It allows u
44. Then restart PHOTOMOD 9 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 System configuration stage e Step 9 After the starting of PHOTOMOD system the window for the initial settings is displayed PHOTOMOD initial setup i _ o x ettings Folder c APHOTOMODS WAR a entralized profile management J Use Centralized management Folder x Manage network profiles B Specify a folder for configuration files storing by default PHOTOMOD5 VAR in the root folder to which was installed PHOTOMOD system It is not recommended to place this folder on a network drive because this can significantly slow down the system e Step 10 Next user should create at least one profile a network profile by pushing Manage network profiles button having centralized management folder connected or a local profile by pushing OK button in the Control Panel window See chapter PHOTOMOD resources system Activate the profile and push the OK button to open the PHOTOMOD system To uninstall PHOTOMOD system use the Start Programs PHOTOMOD Uninstall PHOTOMOD menu command or use the standard procedure of uninstalling programs in the Control Panel of Windows having closed all running modules previously Instructions for updating the PHOTOMOD system of 4 x versions are on the official website of Racurs Company http www racurs ru To install the distributed processing system perform t
45. active on computers Clients i e while performing tasks in distributed processing mode you may work in the system using any active profile including local All physical input output folders should have read write access for all and you should specify full path to them Local distributed processing 2014 18 General Information 2014 Local distributed processing requires allocation of single multicore computer to perform tasks In this case the computer is used as Server Client Monitor at the same time All physical input output folders including network folders should have read write access For local folders it is not necessary to specify full path 15 2 Mode initial setup Perform the following actions for initial setup of distributed processing mode Define membership of network computers and their roles In case of network distributed processing you should choose Server computer for tasks management and specify Client computers for tasks processing In case of local distributed processing you should define a single multicore computer which will be used as a Server Client Monitor Warning To perform network distributed processing you should setup the same folder of centralized management of network profiles on all computers involved to the process see chapter Creating and connecting network profiles II Specify synchronization folder in advance target folder used to store files of tasks and processing results
46. al folder will be filled with data automatically PHOTOMOD system analyzes free space in storages and distributes resources to store This strategy is preferable because it allows to use all storage space allocated for images And also facilitates administrator work Control Panel Network profiles management A oj x Profile Resources Help esource tree a HW et a be Virtual Folder 4rkh_Tests 57 06 GE Images Lyon 1 02 TB 1 iProject PhS Belgium3 Ingl 58 82 GB ADS_ANEKCAHApPOE 410 75 GB 2 Frojeckz5 PhS_Belgiuma Ing2 42 03 SB UC test 308 41 GB SC Projectz6 PhS_Belgium3 Ings 4 31 SB Calmyk 673 91 GB Project Network profile example 1 344 04 GB WProject21 PhHSt_Belgiums_1 445 96 GB Example of creating network profile using group of storages for images and separate server for project files Connect network profile created by one of the above strategies to all workstations which will participate in network processing To do this specify central control folder in initial setup of each workstation select network profile and make it active Then restart all open PHOTOMOD modules the changes to take effect See also chapter Creating resources system 9 2 3 Setup resources data access 2014 22 General Information 2014 Network data access is only implemented using operating system network access to files and folders It is strongly recommended to meet following requirements when network processing is per
47. al polaroid glasses for stereoscopic measurements This type of glasses is intended for work in page flipping stereo mode Its advantages are high quality stereoviewing and that the recharging and power supply are not needed The drawback is the limited operator s head position to view the stereoscene 14 1 3 Videoadapter drives settings for displays Sumsung Syncmaster 2233RZ ViewSonic VX2268wm and other supporting the frequency of 120 Hz Using that displays you should set parameter Display Change resolution Refresh frequency to 120 Hz in the NVIDIA control panel os RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 ain Mpaska Bng Profiles Display Cnpasxa Q Hazag A PacuwnpeHHbii BoIbepTe sagauyy E 3D Settings n 2 E io Adjust image settings with preview aia a Manage 3D settings You can adjust the amount of information appearing on the screen and reduce flickering You can also choose the high definition H heset PhysX configuration are using an HDTV and set a country specific signal for your standard definition SD TV fee ange resolution Adjust desktop color settings 1 Select the display you would like to change Adjust desktop size and position Rotate display View HDCP status e t up multiple displays a j stereoscopic ID Samsung SyncMas Samsung SyncMas set up stereoscopic 3D 13 2 23 2 4 View compatibility with games Video
48. anagement mode Adaptive Stereo Display mode Generic active stereo with NVIDIA IR Emitt Stereo Enable Generic active stereo Generic active stereo with NVIDIA IR Emitter nView Clone mode nview Clone mode with NVIDIA IR Emitter using external DIN signal Triple buffering Color interleaved display Vertical sync Vertical interlaced stereo display Horizontal interlaced stereo display 3D DLP display 3D DLP display with NVIDIA IR Emitter 30 DLF display INV mode 3D DLP display INV mode with NVIDIA IR Emitter Tridelity SL SV displ This setting allows you to choose the appropriate disper ees al arte cia a hardware Refer to the hardware documentation to determine which mode to use Stereo Swap eyes Threaded optimization Description Typical usage scenarios FH ALHA O CHCTENE Using stereo displays or shutter glasses Option Stereo display mode for monitors Samsung Syncmaster 2233RZ ViewSonic VX2268wm and others with refresh rate of 120 Hz To use the monitor the special glasses are required shutter glasses GeForse 3D Vision The glasses are intended to work in the page flipping stereo mode The glasses are wireless and require recharging through USB port The glasses are provided with USB IR emitter nVIDIA Shutter glasses 3D Vision 59 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 14 1 4 Other tools for work in stereo Apart fro
49. by 1 Maximum t quantity of tasks are less than or equal to the number of CPU s cores of computer 4 1 Decrease maximum number of simultaneously running tasks by 1 Maximum quantity of tasks are less than or equal to the number of CPU s cores of computer Hide disconnected computers highlighted in red delete from the list Display connections of type Client display the list of all connected and disconnected Client computers Display connections of type Monitor display the list of all connected and disconnected Monitor computers The group of computers is selected in the list using the Ctrl and Sift buttons 15 5 3 Performing of tasks Tasks processing control is also carried in the Tasks list of Monitor for distributed processing window The table contains time of start for each task executor Client working on the task and estimated time left till the end of processing in the corresponding columns lf completed successfully the Completed caption appears in the State field The completed 87 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 tasks can be removed from the list using the m tool The m tool is used to delete all the list tasks It is possible to start the uncompleted tasks for process again The most common reasons for the task execution failure are its abortion using the button Client or Server disconnection during the execution or user break of the
50. c Note 2 In PHOTOMOD Explorer window it s possible to connect new virtual folder only to local profile Use Control Panel for network profile See also chapters Control Panel and Creating and connecting network profiles Note 3 All changes associated with connecting new virtual folders in PHOTOMOD Explorer are displayed in Control Panel automatically It is impossible to disable or edit virtual folder in PHOTOMOD Explorer Disconnect or rename virtual folder is possible in Control Panel only See chapter Control Panel Note 4 It is impossible to connect storage as virtual folder in PHOTOMOD Explorer This is possible in Control Panel only See chapter Control Panel The context menu which opens by pressing right button in right window contains following commands o Open in default program open resource with associated Windows program or choose a program to open with if no default program associated View as text view resource in text editor View as binary view resource in binary viewer View as image view resource as an image Open in external editor open resource with program specified via command Set external editor o Edit metadata open resource metadata with program specified via command Set external editor o Set external editor choose an external program to be used by default Filename in the command line is specified as 1 and in majority of cases should be enclosed in quotes For example to use
51. certain level It suits well for emphasizing borders of objects uniformly textured inside e g fields this filter does not make noticeable changes to this inside parts Median nonlinear filter suitable mainly for filtering discrete disturbances single pixels with erroneous sample value Sobel nonlinear differentiating filter which represents a derivative of the image It is used to obtain contour frames on image in raster form 2014 44 General Information 2014 Use On fly checkbox to make all changes in parameters be shown in the main window For image geometry transformations use the button i Rotate flip It opens the Rotate Flip window allowing to set rotation angle or apply horizontal or vertical mirroring to the images Undo for the most recent or all of these operations is also available with respective buttons FF Rotate Flip Geometric transformations window Having obtained satisfactory result with those tools in the Radiometric correction window press the OK button to return to PHOTOMOD Raster Converter main window see chapter PHOTOMOD Raster Converter Correction settings may be saved and then applied to other images without the need to open these images in Radiometric correction window and repeated manual adjustments for each image Select an image with applied correction in the PHOTOMOD Raster Converter files list and press button Save correction parameters for selected image A save
52. ch was started by mouse pushing For example if you need to assign Ctrl Z keys pressing to mouse button click you can assign pushing Ctrl and Z keys and then push icon to add releasing of Cirl and Z keys and automatically complete the macro which will be visualized in this window In the same way you can include to macro command in Actions on button up window the actions which are executed after releasing of chosen mouse button When all necessary actions are included into selected macro save them by pushing OK T RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 15 Distributed processing 15 1 Overview PHOTOMOD includes distributed processing system i e capability of parallel task execution with multiple processor cores or multiple computers in local network This helps achieve maximum utilization of hardware resources for carrying out large projects Task types Distributed processing is supported for the following types of tasks e Transformation of images with PHOTOMOD Raster Converter see chapter PHOTOMOD Raster Converter Preparation of ADS data see Project creation User Manual Automatic measurement of tie points see Aerial triangulation User manual Calculation of pickets DTM see Project processing User Manual Creation of orthophoto in Mosaic module see Orthomosaic building User Manual Computer roles Computers participating in the distributed processing are as
53. d to cancel the assignment push the icon Delete binding When all necessary actions are assigned to the pedals you can save this actions configuration to the default driver by the button Save or to the new one by the button T Save as You can also create new action if necessary and save it into macro in Macro editor window which is opened by the button editor in the Mouse setup window see the chapter Macro 14 2 5 2 Hand wheels and foot pedals Vector A Hand wheels and foot pedals Vector A produced by EOMZ Moscow are used for 3D photogrammetric images processing in PHOTOMOD system Equipment delivery set includes right and left hand wheels to perform marker move in plane foot wheel to move marker in height and three pedals which are assigned to mouse buttons actions selected by user These devices are connected to the PC via special card inserted into COM port see hardware installation details in equipment User Manual 13 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 After device s installation to your PC turn PC on and run PHOTOMOD System Monitor module Then open the window with mouse settings menu command Service Mouse setup in PHOTOMOD Core module push the Device setup button and select Hand wheels foot pedals Vector A in Used mice field see the chapter Mice and hand wheels adjustment for stereo processing Then in Device parame
54. d will be available to work in PHOTOMOD system At the same time backup copies of network profiles configuration folders are created in local PHOTOMOD5 VAR folder Therefore network profiles becomes available to work but not for editing even when centralized repository is unavailable See chapter PHOTOMOD5 VAR configurations folder Network profile edition is possible in control mode of network profiles only using the Manage network profiles button 31 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Creation edition of network profiles in Control Panel Manage network profiles window is performed in the same way as local profiles in Control Panel window Structure of local anda network profile is the same See chapters Control Panel and Virtual folders connecting Menu of Control Panel Manage network profiles window contains the following items Profile allows user to define profiles for work in PHOTOMOD system O O cl Create profile duplicated by the a button allows user to create new network profile Delete selected profile duplicated by the o button allows user to delete selected network profile Create copy of selected profile duplicated by the g button allows user to copy selected network profile under new name S Rename selected profile duplicated by the button allows user to rename selected network profile Resources allows user to defin
55. dia Quadro FX 1700 Nvidia Quadro FX 580 BIOS firmware upgrade required Nvidia Quadro FX 570 recommended Nvidia Quadro FX 380 not tested Nvidia Quadro FX 370 not tested Note Videocards Nvidia of GeForce series do not support page flipping stereo mode Actually the list of video cards in the table is not complete However the out of list video card may need some adjustment and testing Note Quadro 4 videocards are not supported with Windows 7 and Windows Vista 14 1 1 General driver setup This section contains requirements to general videocard driver settings related to all types of monitors For the stereomode to function properly it is necessary to set up the videocard driver correctly To start setting up the driver one should click right mouse button on an empty area of Windows desktop to bring up a context menu and choose NVIDIA control panel command in the menu Bug CopTuposKa O6HOBHTE BcTabutTe BcTaButb A PU TMEHMTb NEPpEMMEHORAHHE CTRL 2 anene ynpasnenna NVIDIA Cosg Tb H FS Paspewenme 3kpaHa at aAMKeETbI eT Nepcovanvsayna Launching NVIDIA control panel 53 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 First of all regardless of video card see list in chapter Video cards and display used it s necessary to turn off Stereoscopic 3D mode Qa n Mipaska Bua Cnpasxa Q Ha O A Pacumpennbi v Boibepute sagayy E 3D Sett
56. dianImags E My Computer E Projects Budapest_Ortho 10 01 7010 2 Bulgaria _Geoeye_Group 4 12 2009 CHEHOW SERPUHOW or 17 10 2009 1 eect se Danube_test 17 08 2009 1 E Aalen DMC_Group 26 11 2009 1 GL Alos DMC_Origimg_Group 73 11 2009 0 Eh Alos_1 France_Group 23 12 2009 1 GeoEye 1 1 127 7009 1 Budapest _ Ortho geoEye_tol 16 17 2009 9 Bulgaria Geoeye Group E CHEHOW SERPUHOW group GeoEye1 Hobart Single 18 12 2009 1 H DMC Group GeoEyel Hobart Stereo 17 01 7010 1 G DMC_Origimg_Group Geonavigator 04 12 2009 2 Danube best H France_Group 16 17 2009 1 E GeoEyel Hobart Single 000 2 E GeoEvel Hobart Sterea O00 001 Filter Giprotrans Group 47 resources 51 648 643 bytes selected 0 resources 0 bytes E PHOTOMOD Explorer window System resources include projects cameras data images and other Projects in turn include of resources like TIN 3D vectors etc List of resources is presented in hierarchical form See also chapter PHOTOMOD resources system Toolbar PHOTOMOD Explorer is used for following operations Copy to clipboard Allows user to copy resources to clipboard e Paste from clipboard Allows user to insert resources from clipboard a Delete Allows user to remove resources New folder Allows user to create and add new regular folder to resources system of active profile It should be remembered that upper branches of
57. e 52 Z 3D snapping Activate vertex Cancel selection Correlate Delete segment Stealth 10 Stealth 3D Mouse 2 Z buttons setup To assign new macro to chosen mouse button select the action in Macros list then select mouse button in the Available buttons list and assign the action to the button by pushing the icon Add binding or by double mouse click If you need to cancel the assignment push the icon Delete binding Note Standard mouse button actions can not be assigned to the buttons of Stealth 3D Mouse When all necessary actions are assigned to the mouse buttons you can save this actions EP configuration to the default driver by the button Save or to the new one by the button t Save as 14 2 5 Hand wheels and foot pedals 14 2 5 1 Immersion compatible hand wheels and foot pedals 71 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Hand wheels and foot pedals produced by GeoSystem Company Ukraine www vingeo com are used for 3D photogrammetric images processing in PHOTOMOD system Equipment delivery set includes right and left hand wheels to perform marker move in plane foot wheel to move marker in height and three pedals which are assigned to mouse buttons actions selected by user These devices are connected to the PC via Immersion Interface box see hardware installation details in equipment User Manual
58. e Automatic measurement of tie points window see Aerial Triangulation User manual press the Distributed Processing button Specify number of tasks After the OK button is pressed the created tasks appear in the Monitor for distributed processing window 2014 84 General Information 2014 Monitor for distributed processing O x p Tasks bokal 6 running O completed O ee sae eee U Created at Started at Est time left al Profile Waiting Compute new 4 points a3 E 11 2010 21 50 Meridian Waiting Compute new points 1 3 14 11 2010 21 50 29 Meridian Waiting o Compute new points 2 3 14 11 2010 21 50 29 Meridian Waiting Transfer points 1 2 11 2010 21 50 29 ES ES Waiting oO Transfer points 22 14 11 2010 21 50 29 Meridian Waiting 0 Transfer and Filter points 14 11 2010 21 50 29 Meridian gt Computers Wa gt om ta 34 ME Ys _ IP address Type Cu PHOTOMOD version Hammer local 197 168 2 48 Client 51 1049 HAMMERS 197 1668 2 47 Client o 4 4 51 1049 Close Since the procedure of automatic tie point measurement includes successive passing of specified stages points calculation rejection and matching the created tasks are interdependent and are performed in the certain order The second column dependencies in the Monitor for distributed processing window is used to display the depe
59. e Profiles and Resources tree The left side Profiles displays list of profiles indicating the total free space to store all resources of this profile Total free space is amount of free space on all drives which contain connected folders Profiles can be local and network and they are marked in list with different icons For more information about network profiles see chapter Creating and connecting network profiles The right side Resources tree displays list of virtual folders and corresponding regular folders or groups of storages on network drives for selected profile as well as information on free space on those disks Toolbar buttons are designed to perform following operations 2014 24 General Information 2014 D Initial setup It allows setting initial configuration Opens PHOTOMOD initial setup window to organize data access and work with network profiles their configurations are stored in central repository See chapters Network processing and Creating and connecting network profiles e e Create profile It allows creating new ocal profile Opens New profile window where user must enter name of new profile and then opens Connect virtual folder window which proposes to create the virtual folder that means to specify its name and associate the virtual folder with a folder on the hard disk or group of storage folders It is necessary to connect at least one virtual folder for projects to use profile in PHO
60. e first display image and right click it and select Clone mode in the context menu 55 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 ain Bia Profiles Display Cnpasxa Q hsa O A PacwmpeHHeili Adjust image settings with preview Manage 3D settings NVIDIA nView technology allows you to how you Hon to une adila dapleye Set PhysX configuration specify would multiple Adjust desktop color settings 1 Select the displays you want to use Adjust desktop size and position Rotate display View HDCP status Set up multiple displays Stereoscopic 3D Setup stereoscopic 3D View compatibility with games Gi Video Adjust video color settings ae Adjust video image settings My display is not shown Quadro FX 580 Samsung SyncMaster 1 n3 2 1 Samsung SyncMaster 232 A 2 Verify your display configuration v Primary Clone Samsung SyncMaster 2 na 2 and Samsung SyncMaster 1 us 2 Vnbopmaus o cucTeme Setting multiple displays Having set multiple displays you should set option Stereo display mode to nView Clone mode 2014 56 General Information 2014 l Manene ynpasnenna NVIDIA Dain paska Bug Cnpaeska ia er we Haza i a PacluMpeHHbil Boibepute sagayy R ai aes G 3D Settings iF en Adjust image settings with preview You can change the global 3D settings and create ovenides
61. e resources structure for network profiles O cl Connect folder duplicated by the a button allows user to connect new virtual folder to selected network profile See chapter Virtual folders connecting a Zi Disconnect folder duplicated by the button allows user to disconnect selected virtual folder Modify folder duplicated by the button allows user to edit captures of selected virtual folder to edit name of virtual folder and redefine content another drives folder or group of storages Help allows user to view help file and get information about program o Help index o About 10 4 PHOTOMOD Explorer PHOTOMOD Explorer is separate program to work with PHOTOMOD system resources The following possibilities of start PHOTOMOD Explorer e Using the Start menu OS Windows Programs PHOTOMOD PHOTOMOD Explorer e Using the right click menu which displayed by click on G System Monitor icon in Windows OS system tray e Using some dialog windows during the work in PHOTOMOD Core using the button p e Using PHOTOMOD Core menu Service Explorer This window displays all resources of active profile 2014 32 General Information 2014 PHOTOMOD Explorer SEX p Mee Profile Meridian Mame E Size Time Aalen 10 12 2009 2 z Danube_Images_mstiff manos 0 ee P MeridianImg1 21 12 2009 1 MeridianImgZ 17 09 2009 1 gt Meri
62. ealth 3D Mouse 5S1 U Cancel selection Correlate Delete segment Stealth 3D Mouse S1 U buttons setup To assign new macro to chosen mouse button select the action in Macros list then select mouse button in the Available buttons list and assign the action to the button by pushing the icon Add binding or by double mouse click If you need to cancel the assignment push the icon Delete binding Note Standard mouse button actions can not be assigned to the buttons of Stealth 3D Mouse U When all necessary actions are assigned to the mouse buttons you can save this actions Be configuration to the default driver by the button Save or to the new one by the button H Save as 14 2 4 2 Stealth 3D Mouse Z After installation of Stealth 3D Mouse Z produced by ABS software developers company http Awww gcs abc com to USB port of your PC turn PC on and run PHOTOMOD System Monitor module Note After connecting of Stealth 3D Mouse Z to PC through USB port start mouse driver using standard OS Windows operations Then open the window with mouse settings menu command Service Mouse setup in PHOTOMOD Core module push the Device setup button and select Stealth 3D Mouse Z S1 Z or S2 Z in Used mice field see the chapter Mice and hand wheels adjustment for stereo processing 69 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Mouse configu
63. ed to the Server Click the button to show all connected Clients it is pressed by default i e the table contains only all running W Clients Use the button to show all connected Monitors see chapter Computers management Note In order for the performed settings of distributed processing become info effect it is usually required to restart the Distributed processing center Monitor for distributed processing Ioj x Tasks total 67 running 0 completed 8 gt nm ol pe 2 Pw State Priority Mame Created at Started at Est time left OxDCBOEO Waiting Converting images task 4of4 25 05 2010 10 36 Meridian Ox430F4E Waiting 0 Converting images task 3of4 25 05 2010 10 36 35 Meridian 0x34FC6E waiting Converting images task 2 of 4 25 05 2010 10 36 35 Meridian Ox 22320 Waiting Converting images task 1 of 4 25 05 2010 10 36 34 Meridian 0x 4E05E Waiting Converting images task z of 2 25 05 2010 10 35 56 Meridian ompukers gt wm 4 3 1 8 Ms e IP address current tasks Max tasks PHOTOMOD version MASH A 192 168 2 14 HAM MERA 192 168 2 46 RASUVAN OV ONG 197 168 2 116 92 156 2 16 Client Distributed processing clients You can change distributed processing mode configuration at any time disable completely or temporarily any of Client computers from participation in distributed processing and or connect new Client computer You can enable disable the Client in the Distrib
64. ee 14 1 1 Printing settings start print starts printing image or chosen sheets only according to predefined settings H fit width shows complete image fitting to width in print settings window H fit height shows complete image fitting to height in print settings window 11 1 1 displays the image in the print window in a scale of 1 1 pixel image corresponds to the screen pixel zoom in zoom in the image in the window a zoom out zoom out the image in the window 28 El drop down list for choosing image scale in 2014 46 General Information 2014 L e El drop down list for choosing color of printed sheet s borders izil turn all pages off zl turn all pages on E invert selection Individual pages can be included excluded from printing by clicking on page image while pressing Ctrl button Clicking the right mouse button on selected page makes a contextual menu appear with Print this page now command which prints the page upon clicking 11 3 1 Printing settings To set printing options for image currently open in RasterView program choose Print Parameters menu item or click Py Parameters toolbar button so that a window appears Print parameters x Tiled pages Printing order Margins Size Scale Q _ of pages oe o F Tie overl I je is Tile overlap 0 cal d av of page size easurement umit i mm E cm Printing parameters T
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66. ented Startup mode is saved Increase priority of selected tasks by 1 Decrease priority of selected tasks by 1 Delete selected tasks 86 General Information 2014 ar Delete completed tasks Delete all tasks 15 5 2 Computers management Computers group contains the list of computers which are currently in the network and configured with the same Server For each computer following parameters is displayed e Name the network computer name e IP address IP address of the Client or the Monitor e Tun The Client or the Monitor e Current tasks tasks number of distributed processing which currently performed by Client Core quantity the total quantity of Client CPU s cores e Max tasks the maximum quantity of simultaneously running tasks specified during the Client configuration see chapter Modes and settings e PHOTOMOD version the PHOTOMOD build number for control of compatibility It is recommended to use the same RHOTOMOD build on all computers working with the same Synchronization folder The list can be sorted by each field by clicking on the field name In the case if the computer is disconnected from the distributed processing it s highlighted in red in the list The toolbar allows user to perform the following operations Operation Allow selected computers to execute new tasks Forbid selected computer to execute new tasks 04 Increase maximum number of simultaneously running tasks
67. er 2 A TIFF Apply to image C 16 bit Synchronization folder should be accessible under this name From all computers used in Output files placement processing Output folder a ef Same as input PHOTOMOD resources Add suffix IV Cache files smaller than 600 MB Convert Distributed processing Close 2 Conditions for correct processing Overwrite iF not same as input rename if same as input e Input folder must be networking and available to reading saving for all Clients Input folder must be specified as a full UNC name e Asan output folder can be specified The network folder available to reading saving for all Clients Output folder must be specified as a full UNC name Resource folder of Client active network profile This profile should be connected but not necessarily be active in all other network Clients For other task types available for distributed processing mode is not required to specify the input folder posting of tasks is performed during the usage of active Client profile i e the resources data of the active profile is used Real output folder can be specified only during the convertion of images and orthophoto building in Mosaic module see appropriate User manual otherwise a resource folder of active profile is specified 83 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 3 Posting of tasks After selecting the images
68. er GeoMouse e Stealth 3D Mouse see settings description in the chapter Stealth 3D mice e Immersion compatible hand wheels foot pedals see settings description in the chapter Immersion compatible hand wheels and foot pedals e Hand wheels foot pedals Vector A EOMZ see settings description in the chapter Hand wheels and foot pedals Vector A lf one of the special mice or hand wheels foot pedals has been selected their image is appeared in the window Use Parameters panel to set up some of their parameters After device selection and its initial setup push the Apply and OK buttons to apply changing Then you can make settings of other device s buttons in Mouse setup window as described in the following chapters 14 2 1 Three and five button mice To set up standard mouse select menu item Service Mouse setup in PHOTOMOD Core PHOTOMOD DTM PHOTOMOD StereoDraw and PHOTOMOD StereoVectOr modules 2014 62 General Information 2014 after that Mouse setup window appears see the chapter Mice and hand wheels adjustment for stereo processing lf it is necessary to assign actions to standard mouse buttons which are not included to default mouse driver you can do the following Open the Mouse configuration window by pushing the button Ell select the option No additional devices and push OK E engl_var ConfigMouseConfig mcf Mouse setup Oj x be e NV Driver active Macros
69. er and zoom image to 1 1 scale image pixel matches to screen pixel The next group of buttons provides tools for radiometric correction of images Edit list of channels Perform auto levels Perform correction with curves tool Edit brightness contrast gamma ai a E ith Edit color balance i Apply a selection of filters There is also a tool for geometric transformations Ti Use geometric transformations rotate mirror Toolbuttons group for undo redo operations depth of Undo redo is 10 steps E Undo all actions k Undo most recent action Redo most recently undone action If the number of bits per channel is larger than 8 then the operation of stretching histogram is applied to the entire brightness range independently for each channel Also this operation can be applied manually for each channel in the Channels window opened with the rE Channels toolbutton The initial order of channels is set depending on the image Channels Green Channel z Blue Channel z Grayscale single channel crest __ Channels window The Li button opens the Auto levels window 41 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 FP Auto levels Channels All Mumber of nodes ho M Trim left 0 10 Yo Trim right 0 10 sy cred eo _ Auto levels window This operation consists in stretching histogram
70. er pushing Database menu option for work with coordinate systems database Standard set of Database menu contains the following items 2014 50 General Information 2014 Database Reference system Reference systems Geodetic datums Reference ellipsoids Prime meridians Linear units Angular units Scale units Advanced set of Database menu contains the following items Database Reference system Ce Reference systems Reference system types Geodetic datums Datum shift types Datum shifts Reference ellipsoids Prime meridians Map projections Map projection types Linear units Angular units i Scale units After pushing the button OK in Options window the main PHOTOMOD GeoCalculator window Is opened F PHOTOMOD GeoCalculator loj x File Database Reference system Calculate Tools Help il eN E Reference system Name WIGS 84 Description World EPSG GeoglS code 4327 reserved for use with ProjlS s Latitude amp longitude units DSH Height units metre Reference system Name GO49 New Zealand Map Grid Description New Zealand EPSG Supersedes 27291 GD49 7 North Island Grid and 27292 GD49 South Island Grid Units metre ZA Points Name Lat Long H Mame Lat long JH Points Z 2590961 3354351 6586655 9801 40 3 146923 1 35 55 5 46677 5 173 53 20 65634 E 30 626 2
71. er than 2 GB in other cases MS TIFF Always On Megafriff is created for any rasters disregarding their sizes Always Off MegaTiff is never created use this option with caution because this means that rasters greater than 4 GB would not be displayed correctly in PHOTOMOD system In Output files placement panel define the target folder for the placement of the converted file images the rules of creation output file name as well as actions in the situation if output file exists in the target folder The following options can be used for placement of output files Source folders i e folders with source files Any regular folder of file system To select a folder press the button MAH The Browse folder window opens Select an existing local or network folder or create a new one Resource folder of the current profile To select a folder press the button ao Folder selection window opens Select an existing folder or create a new one See also chapter PHOTOMOD resources system lf necessary output file names may be changed by appending a prefix or suffix to the filename Also rule should be chosen for dealing with output file if target file or resource already exists in the target folder The following actions are possible Select a new name automatically the new name is generated automatically using template Namef i Ext where Name Ext is initial target file resource name and i gt 0 a number Skip skip
72. etwork processing using file servers A small project or group of projects can be processed as described below 1 Create a network profile with a centralized directory server Select one drive or folder server depending on project size and define the virtual directories to store resources and define the virtual directories 2 Connect created network profile to all workstations which will participate in network processing To do this specify central control folder in initial setup of each workstation select network profile and make it active Then restart all open PHOTOMOD modules the changes to take effect See also chapter Creating resources system This data organization is convenient in terms of easy backups all resources is placed in the same place and there is no loss in speed while simultaneous processing of small volumes P Control Panel Network profiles management d O x Profile Resources Help rofiles esource tree afa Sge virtual Folder Meridian 2 60 TB Projects test 1 266 69 GB WFilez TechSupport Projects 308 41 GB Miklos PAS 995 13 G6 fUC_Images Errors 306 41 GB WFilez TechSupport Greece_Master_Class EO GrouplImages_mst 306 41 GB Belgium3 877 44 GB Arkh Tests 57 06 GB Lyon 1 02 TB 405 ne 410 75 GB 306 41 GB Calmyk 673 51GB Example of creating network profile using one server drive to store resources lf the project or group of projects assumes large volumes it is best to use
73. file resources The connection of dedicated virtual folder for the images depends on images location settings which are specified Start the utility from the Start PHOTOMOD 5 Converter PHOTOMOD 4 x projects menu to open the converter In addition the converter window can be opened from the Project Convert 4 x project menu or from Projects management window in the PHOTOMOD Core 2014 48 General Information 2014 fee Convert PHOTOMOD 4 projects to PHOTOMOD 5 format PHOTOMOD 4 projects Description _ _sze time _ Type haut Lio dtost f storage a 10 1 220 22 0 ini proje proje Loc Mike 405 Test fea 13 1 imi proje proje Loc Mike ASTER Moscow 45CP a02 21 0 imi proje proje Loc Mike Aster new stereo DTM ear 16 1 in proje proje Loc Mike ASTER stereo men 223 22 0 imi proje proje Lorc Mike ASTER _stereo_new_mona fea 24 0 imi proje proje Loc Mike AUTOZ Promzona_ pos Mizhnesor 220 12 1 ini proje proje Loc Mike Budapest ortho 250 02 0 imi proje proje Loc Mike Bulga _GeoEye DEM 223 23 1 imi proje proje Loc Mike Bulga _GSeoEye DEM 1 ffl 24 1 imi proje proje Filez Filez a Bulga _SeoEye DEM 1 ronha ffl 24 1 imi proje proje Filez Filez PHOTOMOD 5 projects placement Folder For the projects o Y Images Do not export f In subfolder of
74. for storing the settings files which are common for all profiles Logs folder for storing log files which are common for all profiles Profiles folder for storing all data related to specific profile a list of local and network profiles corresponding to a list in Control Panel Configuration file which corresponds to a specific profile describes the structure of profile resources tree a list of virtual folders and absolute paths to real local network folders or repositories e Tmp folder for storing temporary data e UserData folder for storing various types of user data outside the resources system 17 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 8 2 Storages Storage or group of storages can be used as a virtual folder in profile resources tree Placing resources in storage is performed automatically without user intervention which allows optimal usage of all disk space available System analyzes free space on disks containing storages and distributes data to these storages evenly Thus it makes no sense to place more than one storages to one disk The number of storages which correspond to one virtual folder should not exceed 16 Storage is a regular folder which contains auxilliary files and Content subfolder at its root Thus repository is a folder for storing resources and a table file 6PhStorage list which contains the list of resources in the repository When you create
75. formed 1 2 Network access must be permitted to profile resources with full permissions for all users who work with them Group of storages connected to different workstations should be matched or do not intersect If there are storages A B and C in the network and the storages A and B are connected at a workstation all the other workstations should use only the storages A and B or only the storage C Connecting the storages B and C only without the storage A at any other workstation may cause problems All profile resources connected to workstation should be available while working with PHOTOMOD system on this workstation All changes in structure of profile resources which performed using Control Panel are available for running PHOTOMOD modules only after restart of these modules If local network contains a server where PHOTOMOD profiles are created it is necessary to control number of users accessing it simultaneously There are limitations to simultaneous access in non server operating systems for example Windows 2000 XP In this case recommended number of operators working with server storage is not more than 7 It is recommended to use FreeBSD Linux or MS Windows Server server operating systems lt is also recommended to install hard lock key on a separate computer which does not has resource intensive tasks which can lead to failures in protection and failures of PHOTOMOD processing on workstations Installer stores
76. g Choose Start monitor in the context menu The Monitor for distributed processing window is opened where you can view and manage distributed processing operations If the Server is defined as a Client the Computers table that contains clients and monitors shows Server computer as a Client Setup each of Client computers in the following way for network distributed processing Right click the icon PHOTOMOD System Monitor in Windows system tray Choose the Distributed processing control center in context menu The icon of distributed processing center appears in Windows system tray Right click the icon Choose Settings in context menu The Distributed processing setup window is opened 2014 80 General Information 2014 3 Select only the Distributed processing client checkbox Specify address of the Server computer or choose its name using the es button define port used to establish connection with Server specify maximal number of tasks for processing on the Client computer Specify additional parameters of distributed processing if necessary using the More button 4 Click OK in the Distributed processing setup window to complete the Client setup mi The icon appears in Windows system tray 5 Right click the icon of distributed processing Choose Start monitor in the context menu The Monitor for distributed processing window is opened The Computers W table shows all computers connect
77. ght click on the 5 icon and contains the following commands PHOTOMOD starts the PHOTOMOD system also is launched using double click on the G icon and afterwards starts the work in PHOTOMOD system Mosaic to start the PHOTOMOD Mosaic module for Othomosaic building Explorer to start the program for working with the resources of active profile see the chapter PHOTOMOD Explorer Control Panel to start the program for PHOTOMOD resources system management see the chapter Control Panel Raster Converter start Raster Convert see the chapter PHOTOMOD Raster Converter Distributed processing control center allows to setup options and to control distributed processing Start automatically an option to start Distributed processing control center automatically with PHOTOMOD System Monitor Profile allows to select an active profile in the list of local h and network R profiles Mouse configuration allows to setup a configuration of mice or other special devices like hand wheels foot pedals which are used for images stereo processing see the chapter Mice and hand wheels adjustment for stereo processing About opens a window indicating the number of system build and serial number of hard lock key Licence info opens a window with information on PHOTOMOD modules configuration and hard lock key ID You can save the information to text file and send it to tech support ser
78. gz 42 03 GB fit Lyon extern OB Images Ph5_Belgium3_Inmg3 it Iyon tmp OB Werojectz6iPhS_ Belgiurn3_Irnig3 4 31 Jab Fg w Meridian 7 60 TB Projects it Meridian Example 36 14 GB Werojeckz4PhS_Belgiun3 Projects 205 59 65 e oy Managing network profile is available only in network profiles management mode Manage network profiles Control Panel window How to create and manage network profiles is described in chapter Creating and connecting network profiles Besides there is a separate program named PHOTOMOD Explorer for handling resources Program displays all resources of the active profile all contents of virtual folders subfolders and files and allows to edit the structure of resources See chapter PHOTOMOD Explorer 2014 16 General Information 2014 EN PHOTOMOD Explorer Ioj x Bmx cc fe T Profile Meridian Name Size Time a Danube _Irnages_rnstiff Intergraph Tol 70 10 2009 1 HI Images IntergraphBW_Group 15 05 2009 2 Meridianing1 Italy 15 12 2009 1 MeridianImge Japan_Group 07 05 2009 1 MeridianImg3 JoinTest 26 10 2009 1 Bag rojects MalBlock_Group 17 11 2005 1 i Projects2 E Projects3 B NO Danube CapaToe_CHHMKH Meridian 12 12 7009 1 Meridian ACS 29 07 2009 1 Meridian4 16 12 7009 1 Meridiand ACS 6 11 2009 1 New Zealand Group 26 11 2009 1 QuickBird 03 08 2009 1 QuickBird Phoenix 01 10 2009 QuickBird Spokane 01 10 2009 1 S HELI 16 11 2009 2
79. he following 1 After the system installation run the Ph_Rus_Net_pp 32 exe or Ph_Rus_Net_pp 64 exe file for 32 or 64 bit OS Windows version respectively The Welcome window opens 2 Repeat the installation steps 3 At the stage of installing the application opens window for processing projects in distributed processing mode 2014 10 General Information 2014 Installing PHOTOMOD 5 pp 64 This product can be automatically attached as the distributed processing system of an installed PHOTOMOD system You should select the Folder of an installed PHOTOMOD system By default the last PHOTOMOD installation Folder is selected Jf Atkach to an installed PHOTOMOD system Installation Folder of the PHOTOMOD system e Program Files PHOTOMODS ae PHOT OPIOD 5 3 1619 En Net pp 64 lt Back Cancel The Attach to an installed PHOTOMOD system checkbox set automatically 4 optional In the Installation folder of PHOTOMOD system is shown the folder with the installed system Change the target folder if you need 5 Click the Next button to continue installation The distributed processing system adds to the installed PHOTOMOS system 5 Workflows There are two versions of PHOTOMOD system local and network ones In case of local version a set of all required modules and local key should be installed to a separate workstation Local processing is advisable in case of small scale projects which use local p
80. he task into part for distributed processing by Clients e Define the synchronization folder target folder for task files and processing results storing Synchronization management folder should be initially empty and available for reading and writing from all computers which are intended be used in distributed processing You should specify the synchronization folder during posing tasks for processing The folder is located in profile resources or in Windows file system depending on the task type In case of automatic tie points measurement it is not necessary to define the target folder It is not recommended to edit the tasks files tsk manually it can lead to errors during the processing After the tasks have been completed they may be deleted by standard Windows means It is possible to use multiple folders for tasks files storage for example for each 2014 82 General Information 2014 group of tasks as there is a configuration file which collects the tasks from the folders forms the common tasks list and monitors the tasks Example 1 consider posting of tasks for network distributed processing and PHOTOMOD Raster Converter i e the content of task converting of images into PHOTOMOD internal format 1 Source data Distributed processing is organized with the participation computer of local network Tasks will formed by one of the network Clients with Belgium active profile This profile is connected not
81. ice setup opens Mouse setup window used for selecting and adjusting of mice and or hand wheels see description below Besides you can open mouse setup window using context menu command Mouse configuration in PhMonitor module in OS Windows system tray see the chapter PHOTOMOD System Monitor module 61 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Mouse configuration R i O x Changes made in this window define how selected pointing device works for all applications on this computer sed mice Standard mouse and lt No additional devices gt tandard mouse button actions assignment Standard mouse button actions can not be assigned to the buttons of this device evice parameters GoM epork AY plane sensitivity Invert 2 motion Baud pate 2 sensitivity in Swap and Y E Invert amp motion Mouse configuration window In this window in Used mice field you can select device to be used on your machine along with standard mouse e No additional devices if only standard three or five button mouse is used for work see settings description in the chapter Three and five button mice If it is Supposed to use standard mouse along with special mouse or with hand wheels foot pedals select the device type from the following e Immersion SoftMouse see settings description in the chapter Immersion SoftMouse e GeoMouse see settings description in the chapt
82. ificantly reduce the execution time of laborious processes such as calculation sheets of orthophoto images in PHOTOMOD Mosaic module 3 3 RAM RAM volume is critical parameter for most tasks It s recommended to provide at least 1 GB to work comfortably with medium size projects the system is still capable of working with smaller RAM but the performance would degrade significantly due to continuous access to Windows swap file If you plan to work with large DI Ms containing about one million pickets or more or with large projects about a thousand images it is recommended to increase RAM to 2 GB for 32 bit and up to 4 GB for 64 bit operating systems 3 4 Hard drive All PHOTOMOD data is stored in storages In addition settings various service and temporary system data is stored in a separate folder location of which is specified during the installation of PHOTOMOD system and does not necessarily match the placement of system program files With default performance settings the free space on the disk containing the service data folder should be at least 1 GB However user should remember that total amount of disk space required for projects storage is large enough 2014 4 General Information 2014 Hard drive performance in not crucial provided that any up to date drive is used Usually carefully selected operating system settings provide better results then replacing the hard drive with faster one SCSl devices RAID arrays
83. ile See chapter Creating and connecting network profiles a Modify folder It opens Virtual folder properties window for editing selected virtual folder of local profile 25 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 re cs Refresh storage directories It allows user to update storage indices in case of incorrect work See also chapter Storages At the top of Control Panel is the menu of program containing the following items Profile allows user to define profiles for work in PHOTOMOD system h o Create profile duplicated by the Ey button o Delete selected profile duplicated by the e button o Create copy of selected profile duplicated by the g button i o Rename selected profile duplicated by the button o Activate selected profile duplicated by the x button Resources allows user to define resources structure for profiles fl o Connect folder duplicated by the button ax o Disconnect folder duplicated by the button o Modify folder duplicated by the button Service allows user to specify folder for settings storing and central control folder of profiles o Initial setup duplicated by the th connecting network profiles Help allows user to view help file and get information about program o Help index o About button see chapter Creating and 10 2 Virtual folders connecting
84. iled pages tab can be used to customize division of the original image into pages Printing order tab is intended to specify the printing order for image pages Margins tab is used to adjust image indentations from page borders and bind printed image to paper corners 47 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Print parameters x Tiled pages Mopaaok neath Margins Image position Margin Left Top Right Bottom Top left he ae a Selecting page margins 12 PHOTOMOD 4 x projects converter Projects from legacy versions of PHOTOMOD 4 x can be imported in PHOTOMOD 5 0 For the converter to work an installed and properly configured PHOTOMOD 4 x must exist on the workstation with connected storages containing projects to convert Projects can be converted in batch mode i e import several projects as one operation The projects converter main window allows selecting projects and choosing options for placing converted projects and images Conversion is a separate application not interfering all other PHOTOMOD activity Note Saving the converted projects and images from the resources of active profile is not proposed during the converting projects from 4 x version Specify the real directory to store the converted projects in advance and connect it via the virtual folder in the Control Panel to profile before or after the conversion The images also must be in the pro
85. ings i Adjust image settings with preview l Manage 3D settings Stereoscopic 3D allows you to view 3D content with visible depth Use this page to change stereoscopic 3D settings i Set PhysX configuration Display jChange resolution j Adjust desktop color settings Apply the following stereoscopic 3D settings i Adjust desktop size and position Rotate display E Enable stereoscopic 3D View HDCP status i Set up multiple displays Stereoscopic 3D Eet up stereoscopic 3D View compatibility with games Video Adjust video color settings Adjust video image settings Change 3D Laser Sight Set Keyboard Shortcuts Hide stereoscopic 3D effects when game starts Description i scenarios Ops aus o CMCTeMe r peal usage Stereoscopic 3D mode settings Further you should select menu View Extended in the NVIDIA control panel window After this is done task list in the 3D parameters menu would contain an additional option 3D Parameters management Global settings On this tab you should verify the settings Stereo On Stereo dispaly mode use stereoglasses 2014 54 General Information 2014 Manene ynpasnenna NVIDIA Dain paska Bag CnpasKa Q Haan A si PacwupeHHeili BbIbepuTe sagayy Manage 3D Settings 3D Settings Adjust image settings with preview a You can change the global 3D settings and create overides for specific programs The overides will be
86. ion where it s stored Network profile is accessible on multiple workstations to provide cooperative processing of one project Network profile is defined by system administrator in a central repository and also is accessible to workstations users When a network profile is selected on workstation it is configuration is automatically copied to local computer which provides independent processing when the repository is inaccessibility Only one active profile is accessible in a PHOTOMOD session One can select any accessible network or local profile as the active one All branches of upper level of tree resources are virtual folders Virtual folders are virtual names of real network or local folders drives or groups of folders selected by user for allocation of profile resources Thus one profile can use disk space of several computers Using virtual folders it s possible to connect to resources tree the resources of two types regular file system folders and storage folders group of storages See chapter Storages Storages are special type of virtual folders Resources are placed in the storage automatically i e system selects storage of the group on the basis of the analysis of free space Thus storages allow to optimize multiple disks usage for storage resources which is a constructive solution for network processing of large projects See chapter Distribution of resources on servers For connecting real folders to resources tree it s
87. king stations up to data loss It is recommended to install network hard lock on isolated machine where resource intensive tasks are not launched As a result each installation package of the PHOTOMOD system has the unique HASP hard lock key Connection with the hard lock key is performed using by PhConst50 dll file which is copied to the PHOTOMOD folder upon installation So the system will only operate if the hard lock key is accessible and it corresponds to the PhConst50 dil file If the hard lock key does not match the file error message from protection system will be displayed Right click the Licence info on the popup menu which opens by right clicking on the lt icon menu item to check if the key is valid for the file PHOTOMOD Distribution info window opens during the command Information about the features updates of PHOTOMOD previous versions can be obtained from the technical support service Racurs company as well as on the www racurs ru 2014 12 General Information 2014 PHOTOMOD Distribution Info E Pi sae HASF information Network 50 PHOTOMOD mformation Version 4 40 516 Distribution date 01 12 2009 Last upgrade date 27 11 2010 Version date 14 04 2010 Owner Aacurs Seral number PH3r0386ACHS Commenta Sm PHOTOMOD build 943 PhConsts50 Guild 854 Modules PHOTOMOD OTM p 50 7 h 50 PHOTOMOD StereoDraw p 50 h 50 PHOTOMOD YVectOr p 50 h 50 PHOTOMOD AT p 50 7 h 50
88. list Available buttons Standard mouse 3D snapping Activate vertex Cancel selection Correlate Delete segment Mouse R Mouse L Mouse setup window In Mouse setup window you can see the image of standard mouse with scheme of its buttons the list of names of mouse s buttons in the Available buttons list and also list of available operations macro s stored in default mouse driver in Macros list To assign new macro to chosen mouse bution select the action in Macros list then select mouse button in the Available buttons list and assign the action to the button by pushing the icon Add binding or by double mouse click If you need to cancel the assignment push the icon Delete binding When all necessary actions are assigned to the mouse buttons you can save this actions Ee configuration to the default driver by the button Save or to the new one by the button Save as You can also create new action if necessary and save it into macro in Macro editor window which is opened by the button ERE in the Mouse setup window see the chapter Macro editor 14 2 2 Immersion SoftMouse Immersion SoftMouse produced by Immersion company see www immersion com could be used for 3D photogrammetric processing in PHOTOMOD system 63 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Delivery set of this mouse includes interface device fo
89. llation process the NetHasp ini standard file will be automatically created on each workstation where network version to be installed Drivers for hard lock key are installed automatically during the local version installing This may require a reboot of the operating system before the first start of PHOTOMOD system If you have problems with hard lock key drivers installing you can install them manually by running HASPUsersetup exe file from the HASP folder included in the distribution To start the installation of PHOTOMOD system user should run the setup exe file which is part of the distribution kit All the necessary system settings are made directly to the installation process to run PHOTOMOD system user should create at least one profile after the installing see chapter PHOTOMOD resources system The system installing consists of a sequence of steps each of which is accompanied by instructions in the appropriate dialogue windows In the event of termination of the installation at any stage set at this point the program files and data files are not deleted but to complete the installation you should run the installer and go through all the steps again The process of PHOTOMOD initial installation consists of the following steps Preparation stage e Step 1 Welcome and warning Push the Next button 5 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Installing PHOTOMOD 5 i
90. lled on this computer before the Folder of the previous installation is selected as default Target Folder CProgram Files PHOTOMODBS ae PHOTOMMGD 5 0 943 En Wet lt Back Cancel e Step 4 Select the folder name for the PHOTOMOD programs modules in the Start menu Set if it necessary the option for creating a shortcut on the desktop Installing PHOTOMOD 5 Select a Start menu Folder where shortcuts For starting PHOTOMOD 5 should be placed tart menu Folder PHOTOMOD 5 0 E T 2ip ABBYY Lingwa 11 Adobe Autodesk Context For Windows CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 3 EPSON Scan Express Media Player ExpressPlus frooole Earth J Create shortcut on Windows desktop PHOTOPOD 5 0 943 En Met lt Back Cancel e Step 5 Turn on the appropriate option if it necessary to run the System Monitor See chapter PHOTOMOD System Monitor module 7 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Installing PHOTOMOD 5 i It is recommended that PHOTOMOD System Monitor is set to launch at windows startup Should the setup program make corresponding changes to Windows settings W Launch PHOTOMOD System Monitor when Windows starts PHOTOMMD 5 0 943 En Wet lt Back Nexk Cancel e Step 6 for network version in the case PHOTOMOD network version installing specify the station name or IP address of station on which the hard lock key is i
91. llows user to disconnect the storage selected in the list Identifier is read automatically when the storage is connected next time a Clear list of storages It allows user to disconnect all storages of the group Identifiers are read automatically when the storages are connected next time Storage properties It opens Storage identifier window to edit the identifier Note Attention Editing of storage identifiers and structure storages of group may lead to errors in system functioning 2 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Edit list of storages t 44 aoc B StS CAPAStS lt New storage gt St EnPhSt lt New storage cone __ Connecting new storages in Edit list of storages window Create new storage or connect existing then push the Apply button The list of all storages identifiers in the group are displayed in the Group field of each storage Edit list of storages AH x daad H ee ean oun sts CPhSSES St3 5t4 St ss ESPRSSt4 St3 5t4 cone y The window displays created group of storages Press the OK button List of storages will be displayed in Connect virtual folder window 2014 28 General Information 2014 Connect virtual folder el irtual Folder name Storages onkenks Folder i Storage group St5 C APhStS St E Phste Edit ie The list of
92. m monitors mentioned above you can work with PHOTOMOD 5 0 using any monitors and glasses supported by previous PHOTOMOD versions except for those using interlace stereo mode PHOTOMOD 5 0 also supports anaglyph stereomode that does not required special videoadapters and monitors you can use any red and blue ahaglyph glasses The drawback of that mode is that you can t see color in stereo mode and that the image looks dark due to the color filters used in the glasses Me lonad Anaglyph glasses 14 2 Mice and hand wheels adjustment for stereo processing Since 3D feature extraction is a time consuming process it requires the system to be as ergonomic as possible Beside using hot keys or icons of the main menu PHOTOMOD system provides a useful capability to setup mouse or special equipment sets of hand wheels foot pedals for performing of different operations in stereo mode Output effectiveness is increasing significantly when applying the special 3D mice or hand wheels foot pedals to the terrain features stereo extraction due to their convenient handling and precise marker positioning on and also using one touch keys for quick operations launching That allows the operator to focus only on image processing and avoid working with keyboard and standard mouse You can use either ordinary 3 button or 5 button mice or special 3D mice as well as hand wheels foot pedals for work in stereomode see next chapters for detailed description
93. med simultaneously by multiple operators from multiple workstations Implementation of network processing involves several options which have their advantages and disadvantages See chapters Distribution of resources on workstations and Distribution of resources on servers 9 2 1 Distribution of resources on workstation Profile resources can be located on several workstations in local network Any number of profiles can be created in a network All folders used for storing data should be open for public access to read write Recommendations include It s strongly re commended to store the resources on a separate computer or computers which is not used as a workstation to avoid resource data access failures caused by the workstation software failures It is also recom mended to distribute resources to different disks to use the available disk space efficiently It is also recom mended to install hard lock key on a separate computer which does not has resource intensive tasks which can lead to failures in protection and failures of PHOTOMOD processing on workstations 19 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 For simultaneous editing of the same files there is always a rule except for explicit messages and warnings the rule of the last saved data is stored There is no limitation for browsing it s allowed to simultaneously open the same project files in an
94. n od Boal ts oa os fe Tl E ee Baud rate j11s200 Z sensitivity 4 Swap X and l Invert X motion l Invert motion we coe Immersion compatible devices adjustment in Mouse configuration window After that push Apply and OK buttons and the following picture appears in Mouse setup window 2014 72 General Information 2014 E engl_var ConfigMouseConfig mcf Mouse setup a Oj xj D S g E IV Driver active Macros list j Available buttons 3D snapping Mouse L Standard mouse Immersion compatible hand wheels foot pedals Mouse x2 Immersion Pedal 1 Cancel selection Immersion Pedal 2 Correlate Immersion Pedal 3 Delete segment Setup of Immersion compatible foot pedals This window contains list of macro s existing in default driver or created edited by the user in Macro editor see the chapter Macro editor The rightmost window consists of two tabs one of which allows to setup standard mouse buttons see the chapter Three and five button mice and the second one Immersion compatible hand wheels foot pedals marker s actions after pressing each of three pedals To assign new macro or existing to chosen pedal select the action in Macros list then select pedal in the Available buttons list and assign the action to the pedal by pushing the icon Add binding or by double mouse click If you nee
95. n red 10 Creating resources system 10 1 Control panel Control Panel program is used to arrange a structure of resources for working in PHOTOMOD system Use the following way to start PHOTOMOD Control Panel Start Programs PHOTOMOD PHOTOMOD Control Panel Besides it can be started using context menu which is opened on right clicking an icon or pressing a button in Project Management window of PHOTOMOD Core The program window looks as shown below Control Panel Iof Profile Resources Service Help esource tree rofiles AS PE E F tz Arkh Tests 173 53 GB Danube_Images_mistiff tz Belgium3 703 39 GB Werojecte4 Miklos_PhHStImages_mst 117 02 GB Images 1 45 TB WPROJECT24 PhSDatalImages 1 23 TB MeridianImg1 WEROJECTZS MeridianImg1 MeridianImg WPROJECTZ6 MeridianImg org 6l GB MeridianImg3 327 87 GB WPEROJECTZ4 MeridianImg3 Managing network profile is available only in network profiles management mode Manage network profiles en Oo Control Panel window The window displays resources system which may be available for working in PHOTOMOD system Each profile has its own resources structure that is a list of virtual folders which are matched to regular folders on drives on different computers in network for PHOTOMOD system file resources storage In one work session in PHOTOMOD system only one selected profile is available active profile for work The window is divided into two parts th
96. ndencies of tasks from each other A task does not run until all the tasks it depends on are successfully accomplished 15 5 Control of distributed processing The Monitor for distributed processing window which is opened by the menu command Monitor Start monitor in the Distributed processing control center menu is used to control the status of distributed processing Monitor for distributed processing Ioj x Tasks total 72 running 0 completed 9 pnmo Hh rE D Re er Oe O0xCC9138 Waiting 0 Compute new points 2 2 25 05 2010 10 51 23 Meridian Ox9AF244 Waiting 0 Transfer and Filter points 25 05 2010 10 51 23 Meridian 0x8143E0 Waiting 0 Compute new points 1 2 25 05 2010 10 51 23 Meridian Ox3438EC Waiting 0 Transfer points 1 2 25 05 2010 10 51 23 Meridian 0x224188 Waiting 0 Transfer points 2 2 25 05 2010 10 51 23 Meridian OxDCBOEO a Converting images task 4 of 4 25 05 2010 10 36 35 25 05 2010 10 52 00 RAZUVANOVANG ee Ox430F4E Waiting Converting images task 3 of 4 25 05 2010 10 36 35 Meridian Ox34FC6E Waiting A Converting images task 2 of 4 25 05 2010 10 36 35 Meridian 0x622320 Waiting 0 Converting images task 1 of 4 25 05 2010 10 36 34 Meridian omputers gt I ceed eal Nel We address_ _Type_ _currenttasts_ ove quentty_ __Mextasis_ _ PHOTOMOD version _ MASHA 192 168 2 14 Client i HAMMER 4 192 168 2 48 cient RAZUVANOVANG j 192 168 2 116
97. nection between Clients and Server In the Maximum tasks number input field specify number of tasks that will be executed by the Client simultaneously By default the number of tasks equals the number of processors or cores for multicore processors in computer Note In general case it is not recommended to increase a number of tasks specified by default since it is not result in additional increasing of performance On the contrary overall time of tasks execution will increase If you are going to use the computer for other work along with executing tasks in distributed processing mode it is recommended to decrease this value optional Click the More button The Additional settings for distributed processing window is opened where you can define tasks start interval in milliseconds and create debugging logs of Client and Server Click OK C Additional settings for distributed processinc Tasks start interval ms Enable server debug log Enable dient debug log WARNING debug logs should be enabled when debugging network connectivity problems only in order to send the log files to the Technical Support service Enabling debug logs during normal operation may lead to problems with stability o Click OK in the Distributed processing setup window to finish Server setup The icon appears in Windows system tray if only Server is running or the icon if Server is Client Right click the icon of distributed processin
98. nstalled Installing PHOTOMOD 5 Mame or IP address of che computer with H45P protection dongle hammers PHOTOMOD 5 0 3943 En Net lt Back Cancel File copy stage e Step 7 Everything is ready for PHOTOMOD installation in the next dialogue window push the Next button to copy program files The installation process starts 2014 8 General Information 2014 Everything is ready to install PHOTOMOD 5 Click Next to start copying Files or Back to modify installation parameteres PHOTOMOD 5 0 943 En Net lt Back Cancel e Step 8 After the installation push the Finish button to move on to the system configuring Installing PHOTOMOD 5 E Installation has been completed Click Finish to exit the installation program After exiting the installation W Start PHOTOMOD PHOTOMMD 5 0 943 En Met Cancel If hard lock key is not found the appropriate message is displayed Set the hard lock key on local station or on a specified in Step 6 network station during the network version installing and run PHOTOMOD If the installer does not find the PhConsts50 dil file or it does not comply with hard lock key see also chapter Protection the appropriate message is displayed Contact to technical support service of Racurs Company to get the file PhConsts50 dll Close the System Monitor if it was opened and copy this file into the PHOTOMOD program folder
99. of the source image for the entire brightness range Select desired image channel in the Channels dropdown list blue green or red or all at once to apply the rest of stretching histogram parameters to them Number of nodes parameter specifies the number of segments of the transfer function and should be left 1 for majority of cases The Trim left and Trim right set the percentage of corresponding left or right histogram edges which will not be considered during the operation To view the image histogram and set the transfer function specifying an arbitrary brightness transformation used the window which opened by pressing the button a Curves Channel Red oo EB Gl Gl 3 7 3 7 i Restore Load Saves J For all Preview Cancel Apply Curves window Graphically this function is viewed as a curve color of which is determined by the selected channel Values of image brightness are plotted on X axis before the conversion the value in the Input field and on the Y axis after convertion value in the Output field The transfer function is defined by setting the nodal points the small squares Between the nodal points the transfer characteristic is a cubic spline To add a node point it is necessary to put the marker to the desired point of the histogram and click the left mouse button To delete a node point right click on the selected point To select the nodal point click the left mouse
100. on of network profiles in Centralised management folder field and enable Use option The Manage network profiles button becomes available Press this button to create and edit network profiles Control Panel Manage network profiles window are displayed Control Panel Network profiles management Profile Resources Help BSource tree Virtual Folder Miklos PhS Errors Belgium Moscow Orkh_ Tests rtl GB 117 02 SB 703 39 GB se OF GB 173 53 GB Danube_Images_mstiff WProjecte4Miklos_PHStImages_mst 251 01 GB Images WEROJECTS4PhSDatal Images 479 03 GB MeridianiImg1 Lyon 1 23 TB WPROJECT 25 Meridianing1 27 71 GB Meridianimg WPROJECTZ6 MeridianImge 29 42 GB Iyon tmp 06E Lyon extern 0E Control Panel Manage network profiles window Create network profiles and define resource tree for them Press the Apply button In Profiles folder of specified central control folder following is created The profiles x ini file which contains list of all network profiles Names of subfolders of profiles which match to names of profiles which contains profile x ini configuration files of profile resource Each profile x ini file which matches to specific profile contains the definition of profile resources tree this is list of virtual folders and specified absolute paths for them to regular folders or storages Press the OK button Created network profiles will be displayed in Profile list in Control Panel an
101. on to choosing and configuring of the OS during the preparation of the computer as file server for network processing It is recommended to use FreeBSD for this purpose less preferable operating systems are Microsoft Windows Server or Linux Our tests have shown that these operating systems are the best server platforms for photogrammetric processing It is strongly recommended to consider that Windows XP Vista 7 OS has a limited number of simultaneous network connections to computer if it is planned to placing data on computer with no server version Simultaneous work will be difficult if number of workstations in network exceeds 8 Emphasis is placed on reliability storage subsystems Due to the fact that the license manager requires a lot of system resources it is recommended to connect the HASP key to a dedicated computer The proposed configuration of network may to look as described below 2014 20 General Information 2014 Preferred is an option of data placement when profile resources are located in multiple virtual folders in accordance with the volume which are on different servers It is better to follow the rule One disk is one virtual folder In case when distributed processing is performed using many workstations and a single profile provided is more uniform load distribution on aggregate bandwidth of disk system of servers and network Consider several examples of recommendations how to organize of the n
102. on with Server is established Client is running connection with Server is established e Start automatically Allows to start the Distributed processing control centre automatically during Windows loading Right click on the icon opens the context menu of distributed processing which contains the following commands e Start monitor allows to open the Monitor for distributed processing window used to view tasks performing process and to form list of tasks which are planned to be performed on Client computer and to manage the process on Server computer e Settings allows to open the Distributed processing setup window used to specify computer status Server Client or Server Client in distributed processing mode and to define additional parameters e About is used to view information about the Distributed processing control centre program version serial number build date and technical support expiry date e Exit used to exit from the Distributed processing control centre 15 4 Tasks posting for distributed processing To post tasks for distributed processing see types of such tasks in chapter Overview it is needed to create tasks in corresponding applications e Define the content of task for example converting of images computing of pickets open the appropriate modules windows define the output folders and also the input folders in case of images conversion and press the Distributed processing button Split t
103. ow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 In the case of the local version the installation package and hard lock key of the PHOTOMOD system must be installed on individual workstations The hard lock key drivers are installed automatically along with the local version of PHOTOMOD system It might require a reboot of the operating system before the first start of PHOTOMOD system In case of any errors corresponding with the system protection try to install key drivers manually by running of HASPUsersetup exe from HASP folder on your installation CD In case of network PHOTOMOD version the driver is not installed on workstations however you should install license manager Imsetup exe file from Lmanager folder The license manager must be installed on the PC the hard lock key is attached to Please note that work in PHOTOMOD network version impacts considerably on resources of the computer where network hard lock key and License manager have been installed That is why hard lock keys producer Aladdin company www aladdin ru recommends to install the key on the isolated machine where CD DVD recording for instance are not launched You should keep in mind that HASP HL licence manager impacts considerably on computer resources That is why resource intensive tasks CD DVD recording work in PHOTOMOD etc on computer with network hard lock key installed may lead to failure of protection system followed by disturbances in work with PHOTOMOD system on wor
104. parately correction parameters are stored separately in rmc file extension only geometric transformations rotations reflections are applied to images In PHOTOMOD system the file is displayed with the specified correction parameters e Apply to image all changes are applied directly to the raster i e the raster is saved with changes Depending on the source image in Precision section select Auto by default 8 bits or 16 bits Auto results in 8 bps if the input image has 8 or fewer bits and 16 bps otherwise In the Compression section select the type of compression by default is No no compression Image compression may be performed using LZW algorithm the image is compressed without loss of quality or JPEG Compression level can be set in the appropriate input field for usage of JPEG algorithm Default compression quality value is 80 which will decrease the size of images by 5 7 times In most cases this does not lead to significant loss of quality but allows saving disk space Compression is available for the MS TIFF output format only Megafliff format is provided to convert large images MegaTIFF is a set of MS TIFF raster files in the folder with the file name which is created in the output folder during the converting and the file prf extension 2014 38 General Information 2014 MegaTiff section contains the following options Auto default MegaTiff is only created if the raster input size is great
105. pen the window with mouse settings menu command Service Mouse setup in PHOTOMOD Core module push the Device setup button and select GeoMouse in Used mice field see the chapter Mice and hand wheels adjustment for stereo processing 65 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Mouse configuration B x Changes made in this window define how selected pointing device works for all applications on this computer sed mice Standard mouse and GeoMouse EOMZ y Standard mouse button actions assignment GeoMouse buttons may be assigned standard mouse button actions Such assignment will work For all applications on this computer PHOTOMOD System Monitor is necessary to setup the assignment Device parameters COM port fi ai pane sensitivity o _ Invert Z motion Baud rate 7 Z sensitivity j Swap and z Invert 4 motion ee Invert motion wi coe GeoMouse setup in Mouse configuration window Then in Device parameters panel select its COM port and adjust mouse wheel sensitivity by Z using an appropriate slider Use Standard mouse button actions assignment panel to the right to assign actions of the standard mouse buttons to the GeoMouse Select the GeoMouse bution in Button column button names and their location are shown on leftward picture and in appropriate cell of Assignment column select necessary button of u
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107. r mouse connection to COM port power unit and mouse itself After installation of Immersion SoftMouse to your PC turn PC on and run PHOTOMOD System Monitor module Then open the window with mouse settings menu command Service Mouse setup in PHOTOMOD Core module push the Device setup button and select Immersion SoftMouse in Used mice field see the chapter Mice and hand wheels adjustment for stereo processing Mouse configuration lO x Changes made in this window define how selected pointing device works for all applications on this computer sed mice Standard mouse and Immersion SoftMouse X B2 f C A4 AID CA1 LM A2 RM Bt B4 Standard mouse button actions assignment SoftMouse buttons may be assigned standard mouse button actions Such assignment as well as moving mouse cursor with SoftMouse will work For all applications on this computer while PHOTOMOD System Monitor is running Device parameters COM port fi xY plane sensitivity TANS j T Invert Z motion Baud rate 115200 bd zZ sensitivity 2 Swap X and Y Iris tion Invert motion Immersion SoftMouse setup in Mouse configuration window Then in Device parameters panel select its COM port and baud rate and adjust mouse and wheel sensitivity using an appropriate sliders Here you can also setup left or right mouse wheel move for changing marker height Z coordinate during vectorization
108. r to re calculate them into Cartesian which are acceptable in PHOTOMOD system you should do the following Push the Select button in Reference system field of the left panel and select coordinate system of input GCP s Then load ASCII file with points coordinates the Load button in left Points field In the right panel in Reference system field exactly in the same way select the output coordinate system from Cartesian ones available for example and recalculate the coordinates the Calculate button under left Points field or the icon gt Calculate from left to right After that new GCP coordinates appear in the right Points field You can save them in txt file the Save button under right Points field and use then in further work with PHOTOMOD project PHOTOMOD GeoCalculator Joj x File Database Reference system Calculate Tools Help Reference systems Reference system types t northern hemisphere t Territories Murayvut EPSG Reference system Name WADSS LSAS 93 Description Canada New Brunswick Service Mew Brunswick Land and Information Standards Manual EPSG Supersedes ATS from 1999 in Mew Brunswick Latitude amp longitude units DM SH Height units metre Geodetic datums Datum shift types Datum shifts Reference ellipsoids Prime meridians Map projections Map projection types Poi Linear units Points Angular units Scale uni
109. ration oj x Changes made in this window define how selected pointing device works for all applications on this computer sed mice Standard mouse and Stealth 3D Mouse 51 2 Standard mouse button actions assignment Stealth 3D type Z buttons may be assigned standard mouse button actions Such assignment as well as moving mouse cursor with Stealth 3Dwill work For all applications on this computer while PHOTOMOD System Monitor is running Device parameters GOM port z xY plane sensitivity TERET a Invert Z motion Baud rate gt Z sensitivity I swap xand zi Invert 4 motion E Invert motion wey coed _ Stealth 3D Mouse 1 Z setup in Mouse configuration window Ek oh Changes made in this window define how selected pointing device works for all applications on this computer sed mice Standard mouse and Stealth 3D Mouse 52 2 Standard mouse button actions assignment m O OA DOA oN Stealth 3D type Z buttons may be assigned standard mouse button actions Such assignment as well as moving mouse cursor with Stealth 3Dwill work For all applications on this computer while PHOTOMOD System Monitor is running Device parameters GOM port 7 xY plane sensitivity J E I Invert Z motion Baud rate Y 2 sensitivity Swap and I F invert motion F Invert motion wey coe
110. re Note temporary pyramid image is created in a Pyramid subfolder of folder with the source images Therefore user should have sufficient free space on selected drive 39 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 otherwise the pyramid will not be created and visualization of images having no intrinsic overview pyramid will be slow Temporary pyramidal image and image histogram which are used for image processing can be deleted after closing Radiometric correction window if the check box Remove the pyramid and the histogram on exit is checked Radiometric correction window will open after creating the temporary pyramid i Radiometric correction RGB_21 1 7500 x 11500 x 3 x 8 QQaul Miata Do oo R 141 G 133 B 114 7 Remove pyramid and histogram after close Cancel Radiometric correction window In some cases depending on the image type when the window is opened the system can issue a warning about necessity of performing radiometric correction Question Mel x Raster 16 bits per sample Perform autolevels Title bar of Radiometric correction window displays the name of image as well as its width height and number of bits per pixel Main toolbar contains zoom control buttons 2 Center on marker and zoom in s Center on marker and zoom out S Zoom image to fit in window 2014 40 General Information 2014 1 Center on mark
111. rectly without conversion in PHOTOMOD system On the one hand it allows user to save disk space on the other hand it can significantly slow down images processing and thus it is better to use rasters in MS TIFF format It is possible to convert image into internal format on the stage of adding images into project in PHOTOMOD system but when it is planned to work with large quantities of images on different drives which occupy large disc space in its original format It Is recommended to prepare images using PHOTOMOD Raster Converter before creating new project See chapter PHOTOMOD Raster Converter 11 1 PHOTOMOD Raster Converter PHOTOMOD Raster Converter is an utility program for batch conversion of raster files into PHOTOMOD MS TIFF internal format with JPEG or LZW compression to reduce raster file size as well as conversion of MS TIFF files into standard TIFF format to use images from PHOTOMOD project in other systems incompatible with PHOTOMOD MS TIFF format To run PHOTOMOD Raster Converter program click Start Programs PHOTOMOD PHOTOMOD Raster Converter In addition PHOTOMOD Raster Converter can be called from PHOTOMOD Core menu by selecting Tools Raster Converter The program main window is shown below 35 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 PHOTOMOD Raster
112. rofiles See chapter PHOTOMOD resources system to learn more about the resources system See chapter Local processing to learn more about local processing lt is recommended using network version for large volume photogrammetric works which require simultaneous participation of several operators The network configuration of the PHOTOMOD system is preferable in most cases it allows organizing operators work more flexibly and to use production capacity more efficiently In this case network profiles should be created in a special folder to provide storage for project recourses The resources can be placed on any network drives Each computer involved into co operative processing should be set up to have access to this folder See chapter PHOTOMOD resources system to learn more about the resources system See chapter Network processing to learn more about network processing In the chapter Protection see also the description of the installation and configuration of protection for local and network versions 6 Protection The PHOTOMOD system is protected by HASP hard lock key from Aladdin Co There are local and network versions of the PHOTOMOD system differing in licensing conditions for modules and subsystems According to mentioned above there are some features of the installation and setup of hard lock key to work with local and network versions of the PHOTOMOD system 11 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Mosc
113. ser to select active profile its resources space will be available for work in the next PHOTOMOD session The active profile is marked with red tick It is strongly recommended to close all currently running PHOTOMOD modules and push the Apply button oo Connect folder It allows user to connect new virtual folder to selected local profile It opens Connect virtual folder window which allows specifying name of new virtual folder and absolute path to local network folder or group of storages to store virtual folder data See chapter Virtual folders connecting New connected virtual folder and its pass are displayed in Resources tree list It possible to add new virtual folders in PHOTOMOD Explorer window too it displays all resources including all subfolders and files related to virtual folders However it s possible to disable and rename virtual folder in Control Panel only The button is not available for network profile Push the Manage network profiles button to connect virtual folder to network profile See chapter Creating and connecting network profiles ax e Disconnect folder It allows user to disconnect selected in Resources tree list virtual folder of local profile In this case folder on disk which is matched to this virtual folder is not deleted only virtual name and path are forgotten The button is not available for network profile Push the Manage network profiles button to disconnect virtual folder to network prof
114. sia PHOTOMOD 5 3 i Save correction parameters of selected image saving settings to rmc file View section contains Viewing images window as well as a toolbar which contains the following buttons A Zoom window in Zoom window to 1 1 scale image pixel matches to screen pixel Display image in full screen BS Open print image dialog See chapter Printing images To show hide scrollbars in the window Ctrl F8 shortcut is used Radiometric correction of images If not satisfied with the visual properties of images you may apply radiometric correction to them Radiometric correction is mainly used at image preparation stage for correcting radiometric distortions caused by sensor specific characteristics See chapter Radiometric correction of images Output parameters and selection of target folder The following output parameters are set in Output format panel In File format section select the output format MS TIFF by default or TIFF Decide if you are going to apply parameters of radiometric correction directly to raster or save them separately in rmc file by default Select 8 or 16 bits per sample color depth default is Auto If it is necessary apply compression JPEG with certain quality or LZW without quality loss Enable the appropriate option in MegaTiff section if converted rasters are larger than 4 GB default is Auto Correction parameters section contains the following settings e Save se
115. signed one or more of the following roles e Server is the control center of the distributed processing responsible for distribution of tasks and synchronization of client computers e Client a worker which receives tasks to process from the Server Each Client must be connected to the Server e Monitor an observer which allows an operator to control tasks execution process The Monitor must be connected to the Server Server may also act as a Client or Monitor Clients can be temporarily excluded from processing Also it is possible to employ all benefits of distributed processing on a single computer i e having multi core CPU in this case the computer acts as the Server Client and Monitor at the same time There may be set up several groups of computers within one local network processing projects independently of each other Any Client or Server may be used to post tasks and only Server may be used to synchronize processing Prerequisites for processing tasks in distributed processing mode Network distributed processing Network distributed processing requires allocation of multiple networking computers as Clients for tasks performing In order to organize network distributed processing you need to connect network profile to all participants i e the same Centralized management folder must be set on all computers See chapter Creating and connecting network profiles At that it is not necessary to choose the same profile as
116. skaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Geodetic Calculator is started from Windows Start menu Start Programs PHOTOMOD Geodetic calculator It also can be started from PHOTOMOD Core via the Service Geocalculator menu command At first program launch you should specify the path to folder containing coordinate systems database in the window appeared Select database Folder 2 be NetMeeting HAG Network Associates E Gutlook Express ME PHOTOMOD 42 eng MS PHOTOMOD 42 rus o EH PHOTOMOD GeoCalculator ENE PHOTOMOD GeoCalculator Eng 2 B Config 2 Ac Coordsys ae International Make New Folder Cancel Selection of folder with coordinate system database Then the dialogue of the program settings is opened also could be opened using menu command Tools Options or the icon y Options Upper panel of the window Database directory shows the path to the database folder and allows to change it if needed lf coordinates calculations have poor result the field with invalid value is shown in red color by default or by color selected in drop down list in Colors panel x Options eee Database Directory Colors Invalid Field Value Color mmrea gt Interface Mode C Standard f Advanced x Cancel Program settings Interface mode panel allows to select one of two working modes Standard and Advanced which have different set of menu commands appeared aft
117. storages group Press the OK button Virtual folder for storages group will be displayed in the Resource tree list in Control Panel See also chapters Storages and Disiribution of resources on servers Control Panel Iof x Profile Resources Service Help esource tree Xx et a a Virtual Folder tz Belgium 703 359 GB Images Ez Errors 117 02 GB StS C PhstS 217 64 GB fait Local 1 45 TB St Esyphste 205 55 GB 1 23 TB Lyon extern OB o a won tmp OB x Meridian 2 24 TB Miklos _Ph5 874 61 GE Cz Moscow 327 07 OB Tir Test profile 401 13 GB tz NpPorSsBOACTBEHHbIM_test 317 22 GB ocal profile 1 423 19 GB Morte rr coe oe coe Resource tree using storages group 10 3 Creating and connecting network profiles PHOTOMOD initial setup window the main setting in which is the central control folder for storing configuration files of network profiles is used to create edit network profiles as well as providing access to network profiles Using network profiles is provided for implementation of network processing of one project See chapter Network processing ob PHOTOMOD initial setup window is started from Control Panel by pressing the button 29 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 PHOTOMOD initial setup Oe x entralised profile management Jv Use Centralised management Folder WFilez PhS Contig ee Manage network profiles
118. sual mouse by double click in the following way The first double click will assign left button click symbol L will be shown in the Assignment cell the next double click will assign left button click symbol R will be shown in the Assignment cell the next one middle button click symbol M Such assignment as well as marker move by GeoMouse will be valid for all applications on your PC while PHOTOMOD System Monitor is running After that push Apply and OK and open Macro editor in Mouse setup window if you need to create new macro see the chapter Macro editor Then return to Mouse setup window and assign new or existing macro to necessary button or button combination by selecting it in Available buttons list choose button combination by mouse with pressed Ctrl or Shift keys see the chapter Three and five button mice 2014 66 General Information 2014 E engl_var ConfigMouseConfig mcf Mouse setup i a Oj xj DS 8 IV Driver active Macros list Available buttons Standard mouse Geomouse EOMZ Cancel selection Correlate Delete segment Drag Enter Insert Mouse R Insert before active verte GeoMouse 9 GeoMouse 11 GeoMouse 12 GeoMouse 13 GeoMouse 14 GeoMouse 15 GeoMouse buttons setup To assign new macro to chosen mouse button select the action in Macros list then select mouse button in the Available buttons list
119. sufficient that they are available for reading Profile resources system includes all subfolders and files from each regular folder drive except files with meta extension for which virtual folder is specified Files with meta extension store metadata and are not resources See also chapter Creating resources system All the configuration files which describe a set of local profiles created and their structure are stored in PHOTOMODS5 VAR configuration folder See chapter PHOTOMOD5 VAR configurations folder 15 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Control Panel program is used to create and manage profiles Control Panel window allows to create and edit profiles connect virtual profile folders create connect a repository of network profiles select an active profile etc See also chapter Control Panel oI x Profile Resources Service Help JA Belgiuma 8577 44 GB it Big project Example OB Werojectz44PhS_ Belgium3 Data 205 59 G5 tz Calmyk ra Dl GB Images PhS_Belgiumi 2_Img R fit DSS 240 45 GB WProjectz6 PhS_Belgium_1 2_Irng 220 00 SB it dtm_stdrav OB Images Ph5_Belgiumi 2 _Img R cz Errors 308 41 GB WProjectz5 PhS_Belgium_4ch_Images 40 84 GB it InfoMap OB Images Ph5_Belgium3_Imgl fit Local 240 45 GB Werojectz44PhS_ Belgiun3 Img 20 82 aB it Local profile 409 16 G6 Images Ph5S_Belgium3_Img te Lyon 1 02 TE WProject25 PhS_ Belgium _In
120. t list of Macro editor window To the right of the list there are two windows used for assigning chosen actions to buttons Upper window Actions on button down includes operations list executed when button is pushed down Actions on button dow Press F2 ke Release O key Release Fe key To select an action and save it into macro push the button window to open the following panel add action under this 2014 76 General Information 2014 O x Press Jlett mouse button fe Press r ke jejeje es ee om re sjeo ees s Jaf ef sf fs sf rf ef fel deh s medea mal ef ca falwlel aj rj viel rol elt 1 e 7 ol 9 conn af s fof ef elas ciel el asje a eed e e o w a alej o 8 e Cancel Creating new action for macro Here you can select one of two ways e Press selected mouse button after that you should indicate the exact mouse button left right or middle in pop down list to be pressed e Press selected key press chosen key on the shown keyboard it will be highlighted in green After selecting the set of actions you can save the set Cancel button or save it OK button then this action appears in Actions on button down window The rest buttons under actions list are used for the following 7 delete action T move up o move down y autocreate sequence for button up automatically adds and completes the action whi
121. ters panel select COM port used for this equipment You can adjust hand wheels sensitivity in XY axes using XY plane sensitivity slider and also foot wheel movement sensitivity which operates marker in Z axis using Z sensitivity slider If you need to re assign X and Y axes to left and right hand wheels check the option Swap X and Y And if you need to invert movement of marker by right left or foot wheels check an appropriate option Invert X Y or Z motion Mouse configuration 10 x Changes made in this window define how selected pointing device works for all applications on this computer sed mice Standard mouse and Hand wheels foot pedals Vector A EOMZ nd Standard mouse button actions assignment f Standard mouse button actions can not be assigned to the buttons of this device Moving mouse cursor with the wheels will work For all applications on this computer while PHOTOMOD System Monitor is running Device parameters COM port fi v xY plane sensitivity _ _ T Invert Z motion Baud rate Y Z sensitivity Swap X and Y Invert X motion Invert motion wi coe Vector A devices adjustment in Mouse configuration window After that push Apply and OK buttons and the following picture appears in Mouse setup window 2014 14 General Information 2014 E engl_var ConfigMouseConfig mcf Mouse setup Oj xj
122. the project Beside the project Inthe specified Folder Ina common set of Folders E a El Convert Close Project converter main window In the PHOTOMOD 4 projects section select the project use the Ctrl Shift buttons for projects selection for conversion Next the output folder of file system in which for each project is created the subfolder with project name to store the converted project files is specified in the PHOTOMOD 5 project placement section The Images section contains options for placing converted project images Do not export In subfolder of the project Beside the project In the specified folder In a common set of folders In any case for images to be loaded when the converted project is opened in PHOTOMOD 5 0 they must be contained in the profile resources If the system recognizes relative paths to project images correctly the images are loaded without any more manual intervention Otherwise it is necessary to set up project paths to images with ImageWizard which operates on profile resources only A detailed description of the converter 4 x projects as well as of options for placing connecting images to the project is contained in the appropriate chapter of the Project creation User manual 13 Geodetic calculator An additional PHOTOMOD system utility used for recalculating of ground control points coordinates from one coordinate system into another 49 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslav
123. to place resources multiple file servers Use several different server drives It s a good idea to allocate resources so that it would be convenient to backup it Two strategies of resources allocation on the servers are recommended Strategy 1 Connect different server drives folders as virtual folder to store images and separate server drives to store projects Administrator involvement is desirable for organization of such structure and to monitor availability of free space on server drives 21 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 Control Panel Network profiles management Ioj x Profile Resources Help esource tree es H et a ab Profle Free Lal virtual folder Belgium3 877 44 GB Imagel 4rkh_Tests oi a6 VW Projectz4 PhS Belgium _Imgi 53 82 GB Lyon 1 02 TB Image ADS_ANEKCAHAPOE 410 75 GB WProject254PhS_ Belgium _Img2 42 03 GB UC best 308 41 GB Project Calmyk 673 51 GB WProject21 Phst Belgium 1 443 95 GB Network profile example 1 544 84 GB Example of creating network profile using different server drives to store images and separate network profile for project files Strategy 2 Select different server drives folders as storages to place images and connect that group of storages to profile using virtual folder It is recommended to select separate server drive s as virtual folder to store projects In this case all storages connected using virtu
124. ts ser ais PS A 178 83 29 1 61 7822935 r407961 14 189 47 ad 2 6175200 44 r407961 4 189 47 29 3 6178200 56 r407976 19 189 47 30_1 61781324 63 r407094 56 183 51 O51 6178155 45 r 4089565 94 150 Save Clear Calculate Load Save Clear Calculate C Program Files PHOTOMOD 42 eng Coordsysi International ot Operations of point s coordinates selection and recalculation may be performed both from left to right panel as described above and vice versa from right to left panel In the latter case use the icon Calculate from right to left Moreover GeoCalculator program allows to view select edit and also export import coordinate system databases using commands of the Database menu item 14 Equipment for stereo measurements The task made in stereomode is the most laborious part of PHOTOMOD project processing Two stereomodes are available anaglyph and page flipping ones 2014 52 General Information 2014 To perform the stereo processing efficiently special equipment is required it should be appropriately set up as described below 14 1 Video cards Depending on the tasks to be solved various graphics adapters can be used to work with PHOTOMOD See the list of supported adapters below Nvidia Quadro FX 5800 Nvidia Quadro FX 5600 Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 Nvidia Quadro FX 4600 works Nvidia Quadro FX 3800 works Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 Nvidia Quadro FX 1800 Nvi
125. used automatically each 4 Set PhysX configuration time the specified programs are launched Display Change resolution I ld like to use the following 3D setti Adjust desktop color settings Adjust desktop size and position Rotate display Global Settings View HDCP status et up multiple displays Stereoscopic 3D 3D App Default Global Settings Set up stereoscopic 30 View compatibility with games Settings El Video Adjust video color settings Feature Adjust video image settings BOCCTAHOBMTE Global presets Enable overlay Error reporting Exported pixel types Color indexed overlays 8 bpp Extension limit Off Maximize texture memory Off Maximum pre endered frames 3 Multi display mixed GPU acceleration Multiple display performance mode Power management mode Adaptive Stereo Display mode nView Clone mode Stereo Swap eyes orf hi Description This listbox contains all of the features you can adjust on your NVIDIA GPU based graphics card You can change the setting of a feature using the dropdown listbox beside the feature name fa MH ALHA Oo CAMcTeMe 14 1 2 Videoadapter driver settings for StereoPixel and Planar monitors StereoPixel LcReflex 20 3D monitor Apart from the requirement described above using this type of monitors you should do following select Set multiple displays in the drop down list Display Then in the section 2 of the settings select th
126. uted processing setup window using the Use this computer as Distributed processing client checkbox You can temporary disable the Client computer set it to pause in the Monitor for distributed processing window using the ie button see chapter Computers management If you would like to view computer status in distributed processing mode and to check if the Server and or Client is running and Client and Server are connected point mouse cursor on the icon of distributed processing in Windows system tray to see the following popup window PHOTOMOD distributed processing center Server started port 10000 Client started 127 0 0 1 10000 81 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5 3 15 3 Distributed processing center Distributed processing center in launched using one of the following menu items in PHOTOMOD System Monitor context menu opened by right clicking the icon in Windows system tray e Distributed processing control centre is used to start Distributed processing center the appropriate icon appears in Windows system tray its view depends on the status of computer in distributed processing mode shown as follows Server and Client are not running i e the computer does not take part in distributed processing a _ Client is running but no connection with Server Only Server is running m ie Client and Server are running Client connecti
127. vice 2014 14 General Information 2014 Exit closes PHOTOMOD System Monitor module and exits from PHOTOMOD system 8 PHOTOMOD resources system Resources system implemented in PHOTOMOD system is focused primarily on cooperative processing data using network configuration Providing convenient access to all data related to a particular projects group and located in the network in an arbitrary manner without having to perform unnecessary operations with network files is the main advantage On the other hand the resources system is a flexible and open and allows to organize the data placement optimally for a specific task PHOTOMOD resources system includes the following key concepts Profile is an independent group of resources related to one project or projects group Virtual folders is a mechanism for creating a branched structure of profile resources Folders and storages are virtual folders types Profile defines resources configuration Profile has a virtual name and does not correspond to the actual file system Profile name is a root of resources tree and all the branches of profile resources are attached to it It s possible to place profile resources on any workstation and network drives It s recommended to create one profile for resource allocation of one project or independent group of projects There are two types of profiles oca and network profiles Local profile is accessible only from the workstat
128. y number on multiple computers The best way to organize network based workflow using network computers to store resources is as described below 1 Create a central control folder on any workstation Configure read write network access to that computer 2 Create network profile in this repository or multiple network profiles and setup resources configuration of each profile Connect the virtual folders 3 Configure the usage of central control folder on the all workstations All network profiles for which configurations are stored in central control folder will be available on workstations which are displayed in Control Panel s profiles list Select network profile for working and activate it Then restart all open PHOTOMOD modules for changes to take effect See also chapter Creating resources system inji Profile Resources Help Free Meridian 2 60 TB Projects test 1 266 09 GB Filez TechSupport Projects 308 41 GE Miklos PAS 995 13 G6 fUC_Images Errors 303 41 GB WFrilez TechSupport Greece_Master_Class EQ_Group Images_mst 303 41 GB Belgium3 877 44 GB Arkh Tests 57 06 GB Lyon 1 02 TB 405 Ane 410 75 G6 Calmyk 673 51 GE Example of creating network profile on workstation 9 2 2 Distribution of resources on servers This option is most appropriate for working with network projects It is recommended to have dedicated file servers which are not used as workstations It is strongly recommended to pay attenti

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