Merrick & Company today announced the free download availability of
MARS® FreeView™, an intuitive, easy-to-use viewing application for LiDAR, high-resolution imagery and GIS datasets. About the app — Merrick Advanced Remote Sensing (MARS®) software is a stand-alone, Windows-based application specifically designed for processing, analyzing and managing terrain data. MARS® provides unparalleled application and visualization performance for massive LIDAR datasets and includes a modular tool suite that is used to manage field collection, data analysis, quality assurance, production, and client deliverable workflows. To download MARS® FreeView™ see here
Archives for January 25, 2007
MARS FreeView viewing application for LiDAR available
Merrick & Company today announced the free download availability of
MARS® FreeView™, an intuitive, easy-to-use viewing application for LiDAR, high-resolution imagery and GIS datasets. About the app — Merrick Advanced Remote Sensing (MARS®) software is a stand-alone, Windows-based application specifically designed for processing, analyzing and managing terrain data. MARS® provides unparalleled application and visualization performance for massive LIDAR datasets and includes a modular tool suite that is used to manage field collection, data analysis, quality assurance, production, and client deliverable workflows. To download MARS® FreeView™, please visit the following website:
http://www.merrick.com/servicelines/gis/mars/FreeView/MarsFreeViewSetup.exe
Conduit – Immersive 3D Viewing of Google Earth
Just announced this week, VRCO Conduit(TM) for Google Earth(TM) Pro Enables High-Resolution, Motion-Tracked Stereo Viewing Driven by PC Clusters. Imagine standing in a room and a large, 3D display on your wall flies you through a cave or a canyon, courtesy of Google Earth Pro… essentially extending Google Earth’s display from your PC and onto your wall… its way cool! Imagine this (from the developer)… With Conduit for Google Earth Pro, applications can leverage ultra-high resolution stereoscopic display capability and a range of advanced 3D visualization features. The Conduit middleware package enables a desktop application, like Google Earth Pro, to natively drive advanced visualization environments. This maximizes the potential insight and data interpretation accuracy, since stereoscopic viewing provides a realistic sense of depth that is especially useful when experiencing spatially complex datasets. Conduit makes it possible to use the multiple graphics outputs of PC clusters to drive the multiple projectors used for large-scale walls or walk-in immersive rooms, creating life-size experiences that completely fill peripheral vision and engage more of the senses. The Conduit package supports ultra-high resolution displays, using a series of tiled projectors or new 4096 x 2160 native projection technology, such as the Sony SXRD projector that forms the core of Fakespace’s Beacon 8MP stereoscopic PowerWall™ display system. It also enables user motion tracking that provides real-time, realistic perspectives as the viewer physically moves around when viewing the data. For intuitive navigation and manipulation of models, the middleware enables the use of wireless virtual wands, gloves and joysticks either on the desktop or in large-scale displays. Check out the video demonstration available at www.mechdyne.com
TIGOR – 2006 First Edition TIGER/Line in ESRI Shapefile format!
Hey, its not free but its pretty cheap and may be of interest to you. Product details – TIGOR is an integrated data product that gives you all the layers of the 2006 First Edition TIGER/Line® in ESRI® Shapefile format! TIGOR is based on Census Bureau TIGER/Line® files; TIGER/Line® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Census Bureau. – See http://www.nextractor.com
Of note, beware of free Tiger data that may be for sale dirt cheap on commercial sites (like the data depot, etc…) as it likely may not be reformated and is freely available via ftp download from the US Census Bureau. If its not publicized as being in SHP format then you’ll likely simply get native TIGER files which require much effort to use in your GIS