Auxiliary utilities

In addition to its main modules, PHOTOMOD system includes several utilities for use in various service operations.

PHOTOMOD System Monitor — appearing as “grey ball” icon in the Windows system tray, starts PHOTOMOD and opens pop-up menu for running PHOTOMOD, PHOTOMOD Mosaic, Explorer, Control Panel and Raster Converter. This menu also handles distributed processing, current profile selection and mouse set up.

PHOTOMOD Control Panel — program for managing resource distribution and work organization either on local machine or in network. See PHOTOMOD resource system.

PHOTOMOD Explorer — views and edits resources of the active profile.

PHOTOMOD Raster Converter — prepares images before loading to PHOTOMOD project: batch conversion to MS TIFF or MegaTIFF, compression, and radiometric correction.

PHOTOMOD Image Wizard — performs operations related to PHOTOMOD project images. This utility links images of one project to those of another, searchs for missed links and rasters, creates fake images, and more.

Camera editor — enters camera passport data (interior orientation parameters).

Converter 4.x projects — converter of PHOTOMOD 4.* projects to PHOTOMOD 5.0 format. PHOTOMOD 4.* should be installed prior to starting converter.

PHOTOMOD GeoCalculator — converts and recalculates coordinate values between various coordinate systems. See coordinate systems supported.

Coordinate system constructor — edits coordinate system database to create new coordinate systems or edit the parameters of existing ones. Manages import/export of coordinate systems.

PHOTOMOD DirectGeoreferencing — calculations of estimating accuracy assessment of terrain measurements