New Features in TNTgis 2016

System

• Mac OS X 10.11 supported.

TNTmips Menu

• Image menu reorganized to better group similar processes; added new Classify, Statistics, and Spatial Analysis submenus.
• Geometric menu reorganized to better group similar processes; added new Statistics and Spatial Analysis submenus.
• Web GIS menu replaces Tileset menu.
• Main / Assemble submenu removed.
• Access TNTatlas assembly wizard from Main / TNTatlas / Assembly Wizard.
• Access Assemble Geomashup and Assemble Composite KML from Web GIS menu.
• Access 3D Animation process from Tools / Create 3D Animation.

RVC File System

• Create histogram concurrent with generating first pyramid tier for suitable raster types.
• Support element databases for label elements.
• Upgrade to Teigha 4.1.0 library for improved support of DGN and DWG formats for linking, import, and export.

File/Object Selection

• Favorite and Recent tabbed panels moved to top next to Browse panel.
• Added optional sidebar with tree view of path and preview of highlighted object.
• Add 'Back' and 'Forward' buttons to navigation controls.
• Changed "Saved Favorites" options on Location menu to "Saved Locations".
• Added ability to remove a saved location from the drop-down Locations menu.
• Specify default source/target selection locations to be process-specific or shared.
• Locations last used in process are included in the drop-down Recent list.
• Added filter capability for browse list of web items.
• Selected list shows more objects by default.
• Text Encoding menu for file selection shows more complete format descriptions.

File Manager

• Added optional sidebar with tree view of path and preview of highlighted object.
• Added controls to filter browse list with a text string.

Spatial Display

View window

• If both position reports use geographic coordinates, different display formats are automatically set (deg min sec / decimal degrees).
• Keyboard shortcuts (HotKeys) added for Next Marked (Shift-N), Previous Marked (Shift-B), and Unmark All (Shift-U) actions.
• Layer name DataTip for layers hidden by scale shows Min/Max map scale fractions instead of scale numbers.

Sidebar Legend

• Optionally show polygon fill transparency in legend sample.
• Sort legend entries based on sample labels or by entries in a designated database field.
• Allow use of the style name as the sample label in the legend.

Raster Layer

• Theme Mapping: generate colors by color spread or from a specified color palette.
• Theme Mapping: generate colors from palette in sequential order, reversed order, or by randomly sampling palette colors.

Vector Layer

• Allow access to database for label elements.
• Added DataTip controls and display for labels.
• Display settings automatically saved if user is prompted for missing items (e.g. style object) while loading.

KML Layer

• Show datatip for description in KML elements.
• Show legend for KML elements.
• Allow hiding/showing of Ground Overlay Images in Layer Controls.

WMS Layer

• When select web layer, automatically determine what type and add "Get Capabilities" query if WMS.
• If WMS layer has two coordinate reference systems allowed, default to the one that is not WGS84/Geographic.

Render to KML

• Add message if rendered KML too large to display in GE.
• Add option to 'Use DataTip settings for info balloon'.

Render to Raster

• Specify resolution of output in pixels per inch, centimeter, or millimeter at Design Scale.
• Warning message shown if rendering in stereo while not at Full View.
• State of "Render as anaglyph stereo" toggle is stored.
• TIFF output automatically created as BigTIFF if size exceeds the 4 GB limit for TIFF.
• TNTview provides option to Render to PNG (with KML file).

Miscellaneous

• Scale Ranges window for layouts provides color backgrounds for group headings to differentiate groups and layers in list.
• Text layer: display bold and italic text using corresponding fonts in the font family.
• GeoToolbox: save Distance and Bearning when saving line segment to CSV.

Style Editor/Style Assignment

• Import bitmap polygon fill pattern from PNG file.
• Option to override fixed color in point symbol when open in Symbol Editor.
• Bitmap Pattern Editor updated; menu functions moved to icon buttons and color controls streamlined.
• Hatch Pattern Editor updated with more flexible color controls and direct editing of hatch elements in list.
• Line Pattern Editor updated with embedded palette and all settings consolidated in pattern element list.
• Style Assignment/Automatic: generate colors from discrete palettes using sequential, reversed, or random methods.
• Style Assignment/Automatic: if selected source palette contains insufficient colors, style colors are repeated cyclically by sequential and reversed methods.

Database Tables / Operations

• DataTip shows field type when mouse-over field name.
• When copy table with computed fields, you can choose to convert these fields to fixed values.
• Database Table Creation wizard defaults to UTF8 encoding for new tables instead of ASCII.
• Set Date and Date/Time fields to auto-update when element is changed by setting Element Modification Timestamp useage option.
• Ability to set default "current" value for date and date/time fields
• Memo field window applies wordwrap to contents.

Editor

• Element Modification Timestamp database field is automatically updated when element is created or modified.

Edit Vector

• Supports database for label elements.
• When combine elements choose how to retain/assign attributes.
• Specify trace layer separately from snap layer.

Georeference: Auto-Register Operation

• Use multiresolution keypoint matching in addition to image cross-correlation to find control points from reference image.
• Keypoint provides a compact binary description of an image neighborhood at varying resolutions that is independent of orientation.
• Keypoints computed for reference image are automatically stored for later use.
• Use keypoint matching to determine correct orientation of aerial camera images with single EXIF geotag location.

Geometric Object Operations

Transfer Attributes

• Process window redesigned for greater ease of use.
• View window automatically displays source and target objects.
• Use CAD or shape object in addition to vector as either source or target.
• Use all or marked elements in source and/or target.
• Add attributes directly to target object or to a copy.
• Transfer attributes from points/lines/polygons to vector labels.
• Transfer attributes from source lines to target lines by intersection, subset, or distance.
• Choose which tables to transfer.
• Transfer all records or only those attached or related to elements.
• Option to save text report with summary and details of the transfer operation.

GeoTagged Image Table Creation

• Allow writing to existing image table.
• Option to create vector object with points attached to image table records.

Image and Raster Operations

Radiometric Correction: new process to apply radiometric corrections to satellite imagery (Image / Radiometric Correction).

• Sensor data automatically read from metadata file, object, or subobject.
• Process ASTER, DMC, GeoEye, IKONOS, Landsat, KOMPSAT, Pleiades, QuickBird, RapidEye, SPOT, and WorldView images.
• Enter sensor data manually for other satellite sensors.
• Apply sensor gain/offset to correct digital numbers to radiance.
• Correct for path radiance via histogram edge, predicted values from scattering model, from a dark object area designated in the View, or by manually entering values.
• Convert image band values to top-of-atmosphere reflectance.
• Apply cosine TZ (COST) atmospheric absorption correction.
• Normalize reflectance values to flat surface using DEM.
• Sort image band list by wavelength, raster name, band.

Lens Correction: new process to remove lens distortion from aerial images (Image / Resample and Reproject / Lens Correction).

• Camera and lens parameters automatically read from EXIF image metadata if available.
• Process uses open-source Lensfun lens calibration library.
• Correct for barrel distortion, vignetting, and/or transverse chromatic aberration prior to georeferencing or mosaicking.
• Perform exposure balancing of images aquired with different ISO or shutter settings.

Auto-Register to Reference: new process to perform batch auto-registration of multiple geolocated images (Image / Auto-Register to Reference).

• Automatically georeference multiple aerial or satellite images to one or more reference images.
• Process images with nominal georeference or geolocated images with unknown orientation.
• Use multiresolution keypoint matching in addition to image cross-correlation to find control points from reference image.
• Keypoint matching is used to determine correct orientation of aerial camera images with single EXIF geotag location.
• Input and reference images are automatically associated based on location information.

Compute Key Points (Image / Utilities / Compute Key Points).

• New process to compute and store keypoints for reference image for auto-registration
• Choice of AKAZE or BRISK keypoint detectors.

Convert Key Points to Vector (New process: Image / Utilities / Convert Key Points to Vector).

• New process to convert image keypoints to vector points for display and analysis
• Keypoints automatically created if they do not already exist.

Raster Reassign Cell Values (New Process: Image / Classify / Reassign Cell Values)

• Reassign cell values and change data type using automatic or manual modes or from raster database table.
• Automatic mode: assign integer output values for specified set of uniform input value intervals (integer or floating-point) within the specified range.
• Value mode: specify individual output values for individual input values.
• Threshold mode: define a set of minimum thresholds to subdivide the input values and specify value to assign above each threshold.
• Range mode: define a set of contiguous or noncontiguous ranges by minimum and maximum value and the output value to assign for each.
• Database mode: assign new value for each raster cell from specified field in a raster database table.
• Database mode provides options to set cell value if no record or designated field is blank.
• Save and reopen lookup table or import from a contrast table.
• Process multiple rasters using the same settings and optionally use TNTmips Job Processing.

Raster Arithmetic and Indices

• Raster Arithmetic and Indices is the new name for the previous Raster Calculation process.
• Added interface to enter prescale offset values by band for vegetation indices.

Raster Convert Data Type (New process: Image / Convert Raster / Data Type)

• Provides simple interface for changing raster data type and rescaling values.
• Automatic or manual rescaling to the new data type range.
• Set out-of-range output values to null or to the limiting value of the output range.

Raster Set Null Cells (Image / Utilities / Set Null Cells)

• Set a specific value as null or create a null mask.
• Redesigned process window shows input about existing null settings (null value, null mask).
• Option to set a specified range of values to null.
• Set Minimum, Maximum, or Zero as the null value from menu or manually enter any value.
• Choose to create a new raster or process in place.
• Apply a specified binary raster to modify the null mask.
• Optionally use TNTmips Job Processing.

Raster Color Conversions (Image / Convert Raster / Color)

• Streamlined interface now allows processing multiple input composites or raster sets.
• Convert color-composite rasters from or to sets of RGB separates or perform color-space conversions.

Miscellaneous

• Raster Mosaic: mosaic ungeoreferenced UAV or other aerial images with automatic tiepoint generation.
• Geometric Raster Statistics: option for Gray Level Coocurrence statistics to choose the number of bins for the GLCM matrix.
• Raster Color Conversion: window redesigned to allow processing multiple input rasters or raster sets.

Terrain Operations

• Lidar Classification: additional more precise choices (centimeters, millimeters) provided for Vertical Units for Noise classification.
• Lidar Manager: option on Selection panel to select by return type.
• Lidar Manager: option to express tile extents in meters, kilometers, decimeters, centimeters, or feet.

Export

• KML: allows explicit selection of a table as source for Extended data or Schema data.
• KML: convert bitmap point symbols to linked PNG files.
• Vector to GML:supports exporting multiple vector objects as layers in a single GML file.
• Vector to GML: supports export of labels with attributes.
• Vector to Shape: option to create shape multi-element if one record attached to multiple vector elements.
• Vector to Shape: option to split character and memo fields into multiple fields if string length exceeds DBF length limit.

Import

• Import ALOS AVNIR image data.
• Import ALOS PALSAR-2 Level 1.1 radar data.
• Get and store sensor metadata on import of satellite images.
• If no .prj file and CRS is not set in Import Parameters, CRS is set to Local Engineering.
• If .prj file can't be read or used, then notification message is shown.
• KML: convert PNG placemark markers to bitmap patterns.
• KML: table is created for Schema data.
• KML to Vector or CAD: DataTip automatically set from element Name and Description fields.
• KML to CAD: point symbol styles are imported.

Export Geometric Tileset

• Option to create and use external CSS file containing style descriptions for SVG tileset.
• Much faster processing of input vector with empty areas and when using specified database fields for assigning name and description.
• Option to choose table to list all fields and values in InfoWindow.

Assemble Geomashup

• Single Add Overlay icon button with menu to allow selection of type of overlay.
• Google Maps: added ability to limit the spatial extents of the geomashup when viewed in browser.
• Added option to include a Home button in the geomashup to return to the default view (useful for exiting full screen mode).

Geospatial Scripting

• SML class RVC_DBTABLE_MAKEPARM_STYLE_ELEMENT added to create an unpopulated style assignment table, allowing script to set up styling by attribute for elements in an output geometric object.
• FindElementSet method added to RVC_GEOMETRIC and derived classes to find element set by extents.
• Add RVC_STYLE method for adding TEXTSTYLE entry.
• Added functions to specify vector label anchor method/location and style name: VectorAddLabelPoint and VectorAddLabelPolyline.
• Auto-Register pipeline class updated with support for new methods using keypoint matching.
• Perform lens correction in SML via IMAGE_PIPELINE_LENS class and pipeline filters for geometric distortion and vignetting.

SML Script Builder

• Sidebar list provides predefined models for selection.
• Added "New" icon button to toolbar to start building new model.

Map Calculator

• Conversion of coordinates in text files skips and transfers field names and other non-coordinate text.

Contact Support Form

• If reporting error and no error data supplied, user is prompted to add data before sending report.