INPHO is one of the leading suppliers of end-to-end photogrammetric solutions. INPHO’s portfolio covers the entire workflow of photogrammetric projects, including aerial triangulation, stereo compilation, terrain modeling, orthophoto production and image capture. In addition, INPHO offers innovative software solutions for processing digital terrain models, including advanced filtering and editing of LIDAR data.

Since its foundation in 1980 by Prof. Fritz Ackermann, INPHO has gained excellent credit as a provider of first-class software products offering supreme quality, high degree of automation and unsurpassed productivity. After turning into a full photogrammetric system supplier in 2000, INPHO has been strengthening its direct sales activities, building up a worldwide distributor network. INPHO’s experienced staff combines expert knowledge in photogrammetric theory and photogrammetric production with unique know-how in software engineering. Meanwhile INPHO has got a large customer base with more than 1000 companies specializing in photogrammetry and LIDAR data processing in more than 100 countries all over the world.  

INPHO is a full-featured photogrammetric system for all standard tasks in a digital photogrammetric project, including geo-referencing, DTM generation, orthophoto production and 3D feature collection. Its software modules can be used as a complete, perfectly tuned system, or as flexible, individual components, which integrate easily into any photogrammetric production workflow.  

A wide range of digital imagery is supported, including scanned aerial images, data from digital aerial cameras as well as various satellite sensors.

The main advantages of INPHO’s photogrammetric system are its rigorous mathematical modeling for top accuracy, and its smooth workflow and a high degree of automation for supreme productivity.

The new core of the photogrammetric system is ApplicationsMaster, which provides a comprehensive collection of tools for project definition such as data import and export, coordinate transformation as well as image processing, image orientation and DTM handling.

The main components of INPHO’s photogrammetric system are:            

ApplicationsMaster
Core of the system, featuring the common user interface and allowing to operate all system modules.

MATCH-AT
Fully automatic aerial triangulation for any frame imagery from digital or analogue cameras. Match AT enables advanced sub-block handling.

Match-AT Stereo sw
Stereoscopic verification and measurement of control points.

DTM Box

A package for automated generation and editing of digital terrain models (DTM), which includes two products: MATCH-T Ver. 5.0 (Windows XP) and DTMaster stereo Ver. 5.0 (Windows XP).

MATCH-T is intended to automatically generate DTMs and provides a collection of tools for:

• automated generation of DTMs in the fields of interest;
• generation of a regular DTM by the method of successive iterations;
• application of object-oriented correlation methods and robust DTM interpolation;
• geodetic generation of a regular DTM;
• use of structural terrain lines for automated DTM generation;
• special tools for mountainous terrain handling.

DTMaster stereo provides a collection of tools for:

• measurement and editing of coordinates for points and lines;
• processing of a large bulk of data;
• stereoscopic measurement of points and lines;
• application of geo-referenced raster imagery as reference data (for example, orthophotos, aerial survey data, maps);
• support of a wide range of data formats, for example DXF, ASCII XYZ, ESRI/Shape, LAS, WINPUT;
• automatic identification of DTM generation errors.

OrthoBox
A package for orthophoto production, which consists of two products: OrthoMaster Ver. 5.0 (Windows XP) and OrthoVista Ver. 4.2 (Windows XP).

OrthoMaster allows orthophoto generation for single images and complete image blocks. The product provides a collection of tools for:

• support of multispectral data from digital or analogue cameras;
• true-ortho capability (if applied with OrthoVista);
• support of different raster formats: GeoTIFF, TIFF/TFW, ECW etc.;
• import of project files from: MATCH-AT, SUMMIT, Z/I Imaging;
• import of data orientation parameters from: MATCH-AT, PAT-B, PHOREX2, BLUH, BINGO, Aerosys;
• on-the-fly DTM generation using SCOP technology from different formats: XYZ ASCII, SCOP binary, DXF, GeoTIFF, TIFF/TFW, ERS;
• use of different discretization and geometric simulation algorithms;
• conversion into different map projections;
• optimized data processing technology using MATCH-AT and OrthoVista;
• batch processing.

OrthoVista is a powerful tool for mosaicing and orthophoto production including algorithms for automatic identification of seam lines with radiometric adjustments for the whole block of images. The product provides a collection of tools for:

• automatic color correction and adjustment for single images as well as color & brightness balancing for the entire mosaic;
• radiometric adjustment of color, brightness and contrast;
• generation of image mosaics and automatic identification of seam lines and their visualization;
• editing of seam lines (OrthoVista SE);
• import and export of seam lines in DXF format;
• support of different formats such as GeoTIFF, TIFF/TFW, Zeiss inp, Vision RPT, ERS etc.;
• support of multispectral images;
• batch processing.

Summit Evolution 'Professional'

A specialized solution for digital vectorizing of locations using stereo pairs of aerial and space imagery. The product provides a collection of tools for:

• Application of AutoCAD, MicroStation or ArcGIS tools;
• Internal, relative and absolute orientation of stereo pairs;
• On-line triangulation;
• Import of projects and orientation elements from other software products;
• On-line data acquisition using CAPTURE tool;
• Handling of imagery histograms;
• Map editing (only for AutoCAD and MicroStation).

Optional Hardware:

DAT/EM Keypаd – a functional keyboard for Summit Evolution.
Stealth Mouse S2-E – a 3D controller.
Planar StereoMirror – a high-contrast stereo system consisting of two special 20” LCDs of 1600x1200 resolution.

An example of LIDAR data processing chain.