In House Mapping Software

AEROmetrex is particularly proud of its ability to write specific software that improves the efficiency, quality and accuracy of the spatial data it delivers.

AEROblend has been written because no other software takes into account the radiometric (intensity and colour) differences between photographs. The AEROblend process ensures seamless joins between images and tiles.

AEROblend removes solar reflection "hot spots" and improves visual uniformity of orthophotos by balancing intensity and colour variation across each frame. Use of an "adaptive feathering" algorithm merges input images into a digital mosaic. The algorithm automatically computes a blending function which determines how to combine the adjoining input images into the output mosaic. In areas of complex relief displacement (eg. Buildings), the blending function is automatically made steeper so that the image transition occurs more quickly in these regions.

Other in-house developed software includes the ability to create a "pseudo" natural colour image from infrared film.

With the use of an automatic algorithm to convert a near infrared image into an image that appears in natural colour, environmentalists, horticulturalists and viticuturalists can have both infrared images to monitor health levels in crops and vegetation as well as natural coloured images for planning and pictorial consultation.

As the majority of users have ease in interpreting aerial photography in natural colour, the opportunity now to provide this from colour infrared film means that both forms of imagery can be provide from a single aerial survey thereby saving significant costs in both flying, film and processing.