TerraBuilder

TerraBuilder is a 3D terrain database creator with professional-grade tools for manipulating and merging aerial photos, satellite images, and digital elevation models of different sizes and resolutions. The resulting photo-realistic, geographically accurate terrain database can be made available to local TerraExplorer clients or published to remote clients (using the SkylineGlobe Terrain service).

Interoperability

Supports wide range of layer types

> Load local and remote files
> Support for extensive range of formats
> Dynamic plug-in mechanism for easy installation of updated plug-ins from Skyline
> Automatic reprojection of layers that use different coordinate systems

Flexible Layer Manipulation

Range of editing tools for maximum precision

> Easily crop, resize, and move layers
> Adjust geographical coordinates using tie points
> Adjust color and elevation parameters
> Use Clip, Exclusion, and Fill polygons for easy editing
> Perform polygon operations simultaneously on multiple layers
> Polygon feathering

High Performance

Efficient terrain creation process

> Preview mode - lets you preview and correct potentially problematic areas before initiating MPT file creation
> Use of network fusers dramatically reduces processing time
> Automatic creation of source resolution pyramids
> Multi-core and multi-computer processing supported to accelerate massive data set publishing

Near Real-Time Updates

Avoid time-consuming re-creation of complete MPT files using DirectConnect

> Optimize DirectConnect project by referencing pre-processed optimized versions of sources in their native formats
> Multi-core and multi-computer processing supported to accelerate massive data set publishing
> Serve unprocessed terrain databases to remote TerraExplorer Pro and WMS clients using SkylineGlobe server