nFrames & SURE SOFTWARE• SURE Software is developed for professional photogrammetry applications. Delivering 3D reconstruction from images with unique performance and flexibility. SURE Software comes in two editions serving small to medium frame imagery (SURE Pro) and large frame cameras (SURE Aerial). Customers and partners are able to derive precise point clouds, DSMs, True Orthophotos and Textured Meshes. Scalable from close range to projects of large scale such as country-wide airbourne image datasets.

About us

» Company history• Initiated 12/2012 as spin-off from the

Institute for Photogrammetry, University of Stuttgart• Since 10/2014 independent company nFrames GmbH• Currently team of 11 people • Financed exclusively by revenues• Close connection to Universities and cutting edge research

» Products & Services• Core product: SURE Software• Consulting services

Selected Customers & Partners

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Key Values

Key Values

SURE Software Editions

close & medium range applications• Use Cases: UAV, cultural heritage, mobile

mapping, metrology

• Up to 40 Megapixels Image size

• Up to 10000 pixels Focal Length

For large frame camera applications• Use Cases: manned airborne data acquisition, city wide

mapping, country wide data production, forestry

• Unlimited Image count

• Unlimited Image size up to 40 Megapixels

• Unlimited Focal Length

As simple as you wantAs advanced as you need

GUI • Pleasant, clear, easy-to-navigate• 5 steps from scratch to high end product• Complete log information• Anytime to pause/redo• Multi visualization mode for output/mid-product

Command line• Dedicated for command line user• Parameters customization• Expertise level to interactive with

software

Easy Production Workflow with key outputs

• Precise photogrammetric results• Sharp geometry and texture

• Efficient acquisition• Minimal amount of flight lines

• Efficient processing• As less manual editing as possible• High level of hardware efficiency

Quality

Productivity

SURE Aerial Key Points

Nadir imaging – countrywide production

» Automatic products• DSM• True Ortho• Textured DSM Mesh

» High production efficiency • Flight efforts• Image count• Processing time DSM & True Ortho:

• 0.4h/km² @ 20cm GSD• 0.7h/km² @ 10cm GSD

recommended: >= 75%/30%

Oblique imaging – city mapping

» Additional views for• Better façade geometry & texture• Less occlusions• Best choice for urban environments

Challenges from terrain displacement

» Pixel shifts untreated in the traditional flight planning• Occlusions• Perspective distortions• Insufficient overlap

Dense Point Clouds

Dense 3D Point Clouds

Adaptive filtering

Dortmund, 10cm oblique imagery - IGI DigCAM Penta imagery - courtesy of Aerowest GmbH

Dense 3D Point Clouds

Scales to large dataset

DSM Pointcloud

True Orthophotos

19Courtesy of Sven Briels - burokarto.nl

Low overlap conditions (60/40), 3.5cm GSD

Traditional Orthophoto SURE True Orthophoto

Orthographic projection

True Orthophoto

True Orthophoto

Projection on the DSM

True Orthophoto

(80/70)

True Orthophoto

16 Bit Multispectral

True Orthophoto

Georeferenced tif tiles

Adaptive Scalable Meshes

DSM Mesh

Adaptive triangle size

DSM Mesh

DSM Mesh

Automatic seam leveling

DSM Mesh

DSM Mesh

DSM Mesh

3D Mesh – previous version 1.3

Digital Surface Models

DSM

Colorized DSM

» Scalable adaptive 3D Mesh

» Mesh Editor

» Integrated Ortho & DSM Viewer

» Increased speed of up to 20%!

What’s new in SURE Software 2.0 upcoming release?

Integrated Ortho & DSM Viewer

New 2.5D Tool

Geometry EditingPreview: Mesh Editing

Changes affect Point Cloud & True Orthophoto

Preview: Mesh Editing

Trackable changes & Unddo/Redo

3D Mesh

3D Mesh

3D Mesh

3D Mesh (Beta)

Brookfield place building - 234m

Occlusions and building lean

Occlusions and building lean

Occlusions and building lean

Occlusions and building lean

Strong displacements – perspective distortions

True Ortho

True Ortho

True Ortho

True Ortho

SURE Software: Creates new opportunities through efficiency and quality geometry.

• Higher image similarity

• Less occlusions

• Better radiometric performance

• Higher resolution

• Improved productivity

• Improved hardware efficiency

è Completely automatic production of DSMs, True Orthos & Textured Meshes

Conclusions