OrthoMaster is INPHO’s advanced software for rigorous orthorectification of digital imagery. It offers high degree of processing automation and is optimized for high performance orthophoto production.

OrthoMaster generates high quality orthophotos, i.e. digital images with constant scale, using digital aerial images, image orientation data and digital terrain models (DTMs) as the source data. OrthoMaster can process both, single images and complete blocks of aerial images.

The rigorous differential rectification process is performed fully automatically. In case there is no DTM available, rectification to a plane is also possible. If required, OrthoMaster can generate the DTM internally, as well, from a set of ASCII data, i.e. arbitrarily distributed XYZ points and break lines.

OrthoMaster can generate true orthophotos and photo mosaics in combination with the OrthoVista software. All man-made 3D objects (e.g. buildings and bridges), which are not integrated in the DTM, will cause relief displacements in the resulting imagery after performing a regular orthorectification only. OrthoMaster effectively eliminates the relief displacements by intersecting the 3D object data, if available, with the basic DTM, and utilizing advanced computation algorithms for generating true orthophotos of highest geometric quality.

• automated processing of single images
• automated processing of aerial image blocks
• generation of orthophotos in a pre-set frame
• flexible definition of optimal ortho areas
• on-the fly DTM generation from ASCII data
• NEW
• automatic, semi-automatic, and manual interior orientation
• import of area of interest
• imporoved handling of breaklines and breaklines below bridges for true-ortho generation
• generation and display of contour lines
• optional handling of radial distortion parameters
• Source image types:
  • scanned images of aerial frame cameras
  • prepared for digital frame cameras
  • prepared for digital line cameras
• Input image formats:
  • TIFF (scanlined/ tiled /JPEG)
  • ers, ecw (ER Mapper)
• Orientation data import from/via
  • MATCH-AT/T, inBLOCK, PATB, DAT/EM Summit, PHOREX2, Z/I project, Aerosys, Bingo, BLUH, MMH850, ISM/DIAP and more
  • import of complete project file or interior and exterior orientation read from separate files
• DTM data import (binary):
  • SCOP, GeoTIFF, TiffWorld (tfw)
  • ers, ecw (ER Mapper)
• DTM data import (ASCII):
  • XYZ mass points & break/form lines
  • DXF files
  • import of multiple raw data files per project
• Output image formats:
  • GeoTiff, TiffWorld (tfw)
  • ers (ER Mapper)

OrthoMaster and OrthoVista are available as the bundled OrthoBox software providing unparalleled performance for digital orthophoto production.

Demo versions for software evaluation of OrthoMaster and OrthoVista products along with example datasets are available for downloading on our web site www.inpho.de.

• support for a wide variety of orientation data formats (AT results)
• interactive work kept in minimum even in very large projects
• handling of very large DTMs
• bridges, buildings and breaklines can be handled properly in the DTM process
• optimized data flow for advanced color balancing and mosaicking in OrthoVista

• fast Pentium or AMD processor
• min. 256 Mbyte RAM or more
• sufficient disk capacity
• supported platforms: Windows XP/2000/NT