

Products - VISCO Features
VISCO 2D
Multi-layered geodetic Graphics (Modul Core)
- Layer Types: Raster, Vector, Time based
- Add / Remove Layer
- Show / Hide Layer
- Geodetic and Pixel-Referenced Layers
- Default Graphics Attributes for Vector Layer
- Move layer up/down
- Layer Optimizations
- Quad-tree Optimization
- Vertex decimation
- Resolution pyramid based Raster Layers
- Tiled Raster view
- Layer visibility based on current visible Resolution
- Geodetic and Cartesian rendering and editing of geometries
- Grouping of graphic primitves
- Lat-Lon (DMS, Decimal), UTM, MGRS, UPS, SWISS, GEOREF, PIXEL position view
- Stepless and simultaneous data- rotation, zoom, scroll
- Geodetic Overlay of Raster and Vector data
- Layer list
- View rendering in background
- High Performance Rendering
Mouse Notify read-out
Callback Server for
- Position reports in
- Lat-Lon (DMS, Decimal)
- UTM
- MGRS
- UPS
- SWISS (CH1903/LV03, CH1903+/LV95)
- GEOREF
- PIXEL
- North direction
- Route measuring
- Resolution (Pixel/Meter)
- and various more events
Level based Filtering
Based on
- Zoom level
- Attributes (temporal, administrative...)
- Spatial relationships (GISCO)
- Custom
Modul Geodesy
Projections
- Albers Equal-Area Conic
- Azimuthal Equidistant
- Cassini
- Cylindrical Equal Area
- Eckert IV
- Eckert VI
- Equidistant Conic
- Equidistant Cylindrical
- Equirectangular
- Equal Arc Second Raster Chart
- Gauss-Kruger
- Gall Stereographic
- Gnomonic
- Hotine Oblique Mercator
- Krovak
- Laborde Oblique Mercator
- Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area
- Lambert Conic Conformal (1SP)
- Lambert Conic Conformal (2SP)
- Lambert Conic Conformal (2SP Belgium)
- Lambert Cylindrical Equal Area
- Mercator (1SP)
- Mercator (2SP)
- Miller Cylindrical
- Mollweide
- New Zealund Map Grid
- Ney's (Modified Lambert Conformal Conic)
- Oblique Mercator
- Oblique Stereographic
- Orthographic
- Polar Stereographic
- Robinson
- Rosenmund Oblique Mercator
- Polyconic
- Sinusoidal
- Swiss Oblique Cylindrical
- Swiss Oblique Mercator
- Stereographic
- Transverse Cylindrical Equal Area
- Transverse Mercator
- Transverse Mercator (Modified Alaska)
- Transverse Mercator (South Oriented)
- Tunisia Mining Grid
- UTM
- Van der Grinten
VisGeoReference Server
for external geodetic Conversion (User Defined Projections)
Geodetic Data:
- WGE: World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84)
- WGC: World Geodetic System 1972 (WGS72)
- EUR: European 1950
- North American Datum 1983 Geodetic Reference System 1980 (RF) (NAD83)
- North American Datum 1927 Clarke 1866 (CC)
- European 1950 International (IN)
Coordinate Systems
- Geodetic with horizontal and vertical datum
- Geocentric
- Topocentric
- Grid Systems: (UTM-MGRS, GK,...) und UPS
- EPSG refs parsing
- WKT refs parsing
- PROJ4 refs parsing
- Free definable custom Coordinate Systems
Geodesy
- Datum Transformation (WGS84, ED50, NAD27, WKT ...) (GISCO)
- Geodetic Distance
- Geodetic Search (GISCO)
- Geodetic Analysis (GISCO)
- Geodetic customizeable layer
- Geodetic Data Management (GISCO)
- EPSG Support
- WKT Support
- PROJ4 Support
Geodetic Data Controls
- Zoom (fixed step, in bounds, on key pressed, customizable...)
- Pan (on mouse drag, key pressed, customizable...)
- Rotate (on mouse drag, key pressed, customizable...)
- Grab (on mouse drag, key pressed, customizable...)
- Move (on mouse drag, key pressed, customizable...)
- Selection (on mouse click, rectangle drag, popup choice...)
- Graphical Creation/Editing of geometries, customizable
- coupling of display areas
- Fit (on layers content, selection, bounds)
- Distance /Azimuth measuring (Map ruler)
- Overview
- Map compass (Rhumbline (Loxodrome) rendering)
- Movable and Editable label
- Measure (on mouse drag...)
Modul Vector
Graphic Primitives
Geometries can be either Cartesian or geodesic
Vector Primitive Types
- Point (2D & 3D)
- Line
- Polyline (2D & 3D)
- Line Loop
- Wide Polyline and Wide Line Loop, supporting absolute or relative width and Cap- and Join-Styles
- Polygon/Area (2D & 3D ), multiple rings or holes
- Circle
- Ellipse
- Rectangle
- Geometry Collection, Groups
- Spline - interpolating, extrapolating with sharp edges also mixed up
- Bezier Curve
- Direction
- Speech Bubble
- Text
- Distance
- Reference Point
- Triangle Fan and Strip
- Symbols (Vektor and Raster)
- OGC Simple Features
- Compass Primitive with Pie, Arrow and Line Ticks
- Scale Primitive
Attributes can be associated to the Graphic Primitives (temporal, as default...)
- Point attributes
- Color
- Kind
- Thickness
- Line attributes
- Color
- Dash pattern
- Line width
- Fill
- Fill attributes
- Fill color
- Fill pattern
- Outline with Line Attributes
- Text attributes
- Font
- Horizontal and Vertical Alignment
- Up, down, left, right, center Attachment
- Text Color
- Background Fill Color
Geometry rendering
- Geometries can be rendered/edited either in Cartesian or geodesic mode (e.g., great circle line, ellipse)
- Point rendering with icons (Images, TrueType Fonts...)
- Point rendering with custom vector symbols
- MIL-STD-2525B symbology: Units, tactical, metoc,...
- APP6a symbology
- MIL-STD-2525B/APP6a Outline style
- Geosym symbology: point icons, line & fill color
- Custom line stroke, fill pattern (including texture/transparency)
Vector Formats
- VPF (zB. VMAP, VITD)
- ESRI Shape Files
- TAB Formate
- VISCO Vector
Advanced Vector
- Multi-level/ multi-format tiling/subtiling
- Plug in API for new Formats / Readers
- Plug in API for Converters
- Customizable Plug in API for Readers
- Editable/Non-Editable Layers
- Selectable/Non-Selectable Layers
- Vertex Reduction
- Automatic on the fly creation of resolution based vector layers, customizable
- Automatic creation of Quad-tree based vector data, customizable
- Warping
- Automatic map scale change on zooming, customizable
Vector shade
- Transparency Control
- Color editing
Fixed Display Graphic
- Line
- Polyline
- Line Loop
- Triangle Fan, Triangle Strip
- HUD Mask (Raster Symbol)
- Scale x/y
- Symbol
- Text
- Compass with Pie, Arrow, and Line Ticks
- Fully customizable
- Updateable
- Supports absolute and relative Positions
Raster (Modul Reader)
Raster/Matrix Formate
- CHH (MilGEO) MilGeo PCMAP (STANAG 7151)
- GTIFF GeoTIFF (read/write), tiled/untiled, all orient.
- TIFF TIFF (read/write), tiled/untiled, all orientations
- RAS SUN Raster 8,16,24 Bit, RGB, BGR, RLE compression
- RAW Various image data, easily described
Advanced raster
- Plug in API for new Formats / Readers
- Plug in API for Converters
- Customizable Plug in API for Readers
- automatic creation of resolution pyramids, customizable
- automatic creation of tiled raster data, customizable
- automatic Warping
- Multi-level resolution
- Multi-level tiling
- Automatic map scale change on zooming, customizable
- Continuous raster panning
Miscellaneous
- Cutting of Scenes
- Scale x/y
- Resolution x/y
- Screenshot
- Fully customizable
- geodetic coupling of Display areas in Position and Angel
Modul Shade
Vector shade
- Transparency Control
- Color editing
Raster shade
- Transparency Control
- Color map editing
- Dim (brighter and darker)
- Brightness
- Scale
- Bias
- Viewable Picture types:
- 4 Bit Color Table
- 8 Bit Color Table
- 8 Bit Color Table (signed / unsigned)
- 16 Bit Grayscale (signed / unsigned)
- 32 Bit Grayscale (signed / unsigned)
- 24 Bit True Color
Histogram Operations
- Stretch
- Normalize
- Exponential
- Logarithmic
- Linear
- Reset
- Range
- Ignore Values
- automatic best view support
- create for loaded Area/Image
- create for File
- for picture areas separately applicable
Supported development environments / Language Bindings
Java compliant
- Borland JBuilder
- IBM Eclipse für Java
C++ compliant
- KDevelop
- Microsoft Visual C++
- Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
- Borland C++ Builder
C# compliant
- MS Visual Studio .NET
VB compliant
- MS Visual Basic
CORBA compliant
- IDL
Base Standards
- OpenGL
- CORBA
- XML
- OpenGIS
- various NATO-Standards
- various MIL-Standards
- various Industrial-Standards
- Digest
Supported Platforms
- Microsoft Windows NT 4, 2000, XP
- Linux, Kernel 2.4 - 2.6x
Application Integration for
- Java (JDK 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5)
- AWT, Swing, SWT
- .NET
System requirements
- CPU 600 MHz minimum (1GHz or more recommended)
- RAM: 196 MB minimum* (256 MB or more recommended)
- MS Windows (NT, 2000, XP) / Linux
- Hardware accelerated OpenGL Graphic Card, 64MB Memory (NVIDIA recommended)
VISCO 3D (coming soon)
VISCO 3D Modul
In addition to the VISCO 2D Features
- OpenGL based
- Multi-themed 3D Graphics
- Hybrid 2D/3D Projection
- Advanced camera controls
- Fly through
- Customizable selection
- DTED rendering and texture mapping
- Transparency control
- Fog, sky, light controls
- Labeling
- Connection with 2D Views, Vertical View and Real-time Package
- 3D view printing support
- Configurable labeling (scaling, framed, filled)
- Large terrain rendering with on-the-fly loading form disk
- 3D Icons
- Support for different digital height models
- Contour relief
- Contour line and -layers
- Terrain declination
- Terrain cut
Vertical/Altitude View
- 3D polyline rendering and editing with mouse
- Labeling
- Sub-profile rendering
- Controls: zoom, pan
- Fully customizable
- Synchro with map(s)
Modul Move
- Automatic Move Pattern
Modul Mini GIS
- Multilevel Image Support
- automatic scale change on zooming
VISCO Time 4D
VISCO Result
- Real-time time based Data display
- Combination of multiple scenarios
- Different View modes
- Time based
- ID based
- step based
- Play mode
- Modi
- Play- forward / backward, stepwise, Pause
- Time compression / real Time, Time decompression, fixed Time gap
- Loop / reverse
- History function
- N measurements- fixed or in Time window
- Time window
- Grouping
- Show- and hide
- Result management
- maximum age / count
- Settings
- Step length
- Time Compression factor
- Time slice size
- Time bar Widget (Time slider)
- smooth move forward or back in time
- moveable Borders
- multi plane
- different Tick forms
- Grid snapping to timeframes
- Automated Update of the Begin time
- Automated Update of the End time
- Visualization of the Time slice (History mode)
VISCO MTI (Moving Target Indikation)
- Mission color customizable
- Scan area
- Show-/ Hide
- Visualization in Mission Color
- Transparence customizable
- Mode
- Single scan
- Single scan inside a definable Time slice
- History
- History combined with Time slice
- Time slice
- Dwell area
- Show-/ Hide
- Visualization in Mission Color
- MTI Settings
- MTI Dots in Standard Color
- MTI Dots in Mission Color
- MTI Dots in dependency on speed (Red move to Platform, Blue move back from Platform)
- MTI Dots in dependency of Type ore Color customizable
- "Fading History" in all Modes arbitrary
- MTI as Symbol in dependency of the Type
- MTI Configuration
- Transparence customizable
- MTI Dot size customizable (Current Scan, History)
- MTI as Symbol filterable
- Load of single Scans
- Simultaneous load of multiple Scans
- Show- and Hide of individual Missions
- Possibility to Show- and Hide of Scans with the Job Id (per Mission)
- Possibility to select individual MTI's
VISCO Core-Addons
- special MTI-Feature Improvement
- API for time based display
VISCO add on Komponenten
VISCO Graphic Editor
- Load
- Save
- Edit
- Grouping
- Graphic primitives
- Select
- Move
- Measure
- Compass
- Scale
- Change Attributes
VISCO Geo Referencer
- Geo coding of Picture Data with Reference points
VISCO Symbol Editor (coming soon)
- Creation und editing of Symbols
- Point rendering with custom vector symbols
- MIL-STD-2525B symbology: Units, tactical, metoc,...
- APP6a symbology
- MIL-STD-2525B/APP6a Outline style
- Geosym symbology: point icons, line & fill color
- Custom line stroke, fill pattern (including texture/transparency)
- Standard Symbology
- MIL-STD-2525B
- NTDS
- NIMA VPF Geosym
- NATO STANAG 2019 (App 6a)
Optional formats (VISCO Multireader)
VECTOR
Format Name | OGR Simple Feature Library |
Arc/Info Binary Coverage | Arc/Info Binary Coverages (eg. Arc/Info V7 and earlier) |
Comma Separated Value .csv | non-spatial tabular data stored in text CSV files |
DODS/OPeNDAP | reading feature data from OPeNDAP (DODS) servers |
FMEObjects Gateway | Feature sources supported by FME-Objects License dependant |
GML | Geography Markup Language |
IHO S-57 (ENC) | ENC (Electronic Nautical Chart). Vector interchange format used for maritime charts |
Mapinfo File(MIF/MID) | MapInfo datasets in native (TAB) format and in interchange (MIF/MID) format |
Microstation DGN | Microstation DGN files from Microstation versions predating version 8.0 |
MySQL | non-spatial data in MySQL tables |
OGDI Vectors | Point, Line, Area, Text, OGDI gltp url |
ODBC | spatial and non-spatial tables accessed via ODBC |
Oracle Spatial | Oracle Spatial (8.1.7 or later) Object-Relational format |
PostgreSQL | access to spatial tables in PostgreSQL extended with the PostGIS spatial data support |
SDTS | SDTS TVP (Topological Vector Profile) and Point Profile datasets are supported |
SQLite | spatial and non-spatial tables stored in SQLite 3.x database |
UK .NTF | National Transfer Format, used by the UK Ordnance Survey |
U.S. Census TIGER/Line | TIGER/Line files are a digital database of geographic features, such as roads, railroads, rivers, lakes, political boundaries, census statistical boundaries, etc. covering the entire United States |
VRT - Virtual Datasource | transforms features read from other drivers based on criteria specified in an XML control file |
RASTER
Format Name | |
ADRG | DIGEST Raster products (ADRG over OGDI) |
AAIGrid | Arc/Info ASCII Grid |
AIG | Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf) |
AIRSAR | AIRSAR Polarmetric |
BMP | Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap (.bmp) |
BSB | BSB Nautical Chart Format (.kap) |
BT | VTP Binary Terrain Format (.bt) |
CADRG | DIGEST Raster products (CADRG over OGDI) |
CEOS | CEOS (Spot for instance) |
DOQ1 | First Generation USGS DOQ (.doq) |
DODS | DODS / OPeNDAP |
DOQ2 | New Labelled USGS DOQ (.doq) |
DTED | Military Elevation Data (.dt0, .dt1) |
ECW | ER Mapper Compressed Wavelets (.ecw) |
EHdr | ESRI .hdr Labelled |
ENVI | ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster |
Envisat | Envisat Image Product (.n1) |
FAST | EOSAT FAST Format |
FITS | FITS (.fits) |
GIF | Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) |
GIO | Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf) |
GRASS | GRASS Rasters |
HDF4 | Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 (HDF4) |
HFA | Erdas Imagine (.img) |
HKV | Atlantis MFF2e |
IDA | Image Display and Analysis (WinDisp) |
ILWIS | ILWIS Raster Map (.mpr,.mpl) |
JDEM | Japanese DEM (.mem) |
JPEG | JPEG JFIF (.jpg) |
JPEG2000 | JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k) |
JP2KAK | JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k) |
L1B | NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR) |
LAN | Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS |
MEM | In Memory Raster |
MFF | Atlantis MFF |
MrSID | Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database |
NDF | NLAPS Data Format |
NITF | NITF |
netCDF | NetCDF |
OGDI | OGDI Bridge |
Paux | PCI .aux Labelled |
PCIDSK | PCI Geomatics Database File |
PNG | Portable Network Graphics (.png) |
PCRaster | PCRaster (.map) |
PNM | Netpbm (.ppm,.pgm) |
RS2 | RadarSat2 XML (product.xml) |
SDTS | USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF) |
SAR_CEOS | SAR CEOS |
USGS DEM | USGS ASCII DEM (.dem) |
VRT | Virtual Raster |
XPM | X11 Pixmap (.xpm) |
VISCO Video
Creation of Videos from visualization sequences
- MPEG1
- MPEG2
- MPEG4
- ...
- Player for Videos
VISGUI
- High level application component
- Multi-map manager
- Modular and extensible
- Synchronized 2D/3D view
- Advanced redlining of 2D/3D geometries
- C++ API
- Java API
- WMS Client addon
- Map workspace management
- Table view with filtering, sorting, find in table
OGC OpenGIS WMS client API
- VISCO WMS client Layer
- HTML WMS client sample
- VISCO client selection control
Specifications VISCO WMC (coming soon)
Deployment
- OGC Compliant WMS 1.1.1
- Uses VISCO as Fat Client Standard "Browser" Visualization Tool
- Supports the following Requests and Functionalities
- GetMap
- GetCapabilities
- MultiLayerDescriptions
- Time-Dependant-Data
- Vertical Dimensions
- Additional Dimensions
- Vendor Specific Parameters
- Exceptions
- GetFeatureInfo
- Styles
- Additional Metadata Options
- OpenGIS WMS konform
- XML based configuration file