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New features in TerraExplorer 6

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TerraExplorer 6 Release Notes

New features

• New Supported Formats
  • New Feature Formats
  • Enhanced Interoperability with KML

• Professional GIS
  • Load Features from Original Data Source
  • Load Streaming Layer in Area
  • Native Support for Complex Polygons and Polylines
  • Modify and Save Layer
  • Create new Feature Layers
  • Spatial Queries
  • Attribute Table
  • Search Tool

• Terrain Analysis
  • Slope Analysis
  • Flood Analysis
  • Volume Analysis
  • Analysis Tools API

• Realistic Visualization
  • Atmosphere Effects
  • Water Effect

• Indoor Navigation

• Presentation Tool
  Enables you to share geographical information with others through dynamic presentations
  • Create a presentation, in which you navigate through the 3D World, showing or hiding objects on the terrain, following dynamic objects, displaying messages and performing different operations.
  • Presentation route is created either by flying through the terrain recording an exact route or by adding each waypoint separately.
  • Easy to use editor enables you to set step timings and transitions and modify step sequence.

• Productivity Enhancements
  • Improved User Interface
  • Window Layout Options
  • Project Settings
  • Project Tree
  • Date and Time control

• TerraCatalog
  Catalog database that stores organizes and manages connections to raster and feature layers and projects, located on a local disk, on the network, on Oracle or on an SQL Server. When TerraExplorer is connected to TerraCatalog, the catalog can easily be browsed and the required geographic data loaded into a TerraExplorer Project.

• Create Pipe lines tool
  • Create 3D pipe lines long a user-defined path.
  • Create pipe lines along all lines in a selected group or layer.
  • Save output as TerraExplorer group of objects or feature layer (Shape file).

• New API
  • User friendly.
  • Covers almost all TerraExplorer functionality.
  • Optimized for C# / JavaScript environments.
  • Creating analysis tools.
  • Adding and editing feature layers
  • Controlling popup window position and size.

• Error Logger
  The TerraExplorer log records and displays warnings, messages, and errors to help you troubleshoot any TerraExplorer issue. Log files can be exported and sent to Skyline support:

• New Installation
  • Based on standard InstallShield technology.
  • Registry free installation:
  • OEM products do not need to run TE installation or perform DLL registrations.

• Localization for TerraExplorer
  By separating all resources from the source code, TerraExplorer simplifies the translation of user interface text and graphics.

• New TerraExplorer Viewer and TerraExplorer Plus Capabilities. See TerraExplorer Comparison Table

Updated features

• Performance and Stability Improvements
• Improved 3D Model Streaming Performance
• Supports MPT V3
• Improved Complex Terrain Model

• Imagery & Elevation Layers
  Reads Coordinate System Code from File (WKT)
  • Supports Complex Clip Polygon
  • Optimization
  • Null Values
  • Full API for All Raster Operations

• Updated Analysis Tools
  • Viewshed Improvements
  • LOS Improvements
  • Contour Map Improvements

• Navigation Improvements

• Object Improvements
  • Text Label Improvements
  • 3D Model
  • Video Object Improvements
  • Timespan
  • Highlight Effect to All Type of Objects

• Improved Draw Tools
  • Collaboration
  • Duplicate Objects
  • Power Line
  • Timespan tags

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