LumiDB now supports orthophotos
Orthophoto support is now live in LumiDB. You can ingest a multi-file GeoTIFF dataset with sidecar files, preview it in the Viewer and connect it to downstream tools via WMTS or XYZ endpoints. This opens up interesting “cross-pollination” opportunities, such as coloring point clouds with orthophoto imagery or computing elevation-based analytics.
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Orthophoto support is now live in LumiDB. You can ingest a multi-file GeoTIFF dataset, optionally accompanied by sidecar files, preview it in the Viewer and connect it to downstream tools via WMTS or XYZ endpoints.
When we started LumiDB, we envisioned a "point cloud database", because that's where we personally felt the biggest pain. When talking with users, it quickly became apparent that using one system for point clouds and another for other data types is not optimal. Rarely does a survey consist of only point clouds. So we decided to build first-class support for other modalities as well, starting with raster images. They are available through the same APIs as point clouds, subject to the same access control and accessed with the same lightning-fast performance we are known for.
What I'm personally most excited about, however, are the interesting possibilities this "cross-pollination" of data types opens up. Having both 3D and raster data in the same place and behind the same API enables us to leverage them in advanced ways, such as coloring point clouds with orthophoto imagery or computing elevation-based analytics. So no longer is LumiDB just a "point cloud database"; it is now a fully-fledged geospatial data warehouse. Even if you don't care about these advanced analytics or processing capabilities, you will be able to use LumiDB to connect and share all your geospatial assets using one platform, one access model and a rich set of integrations and connectors.
Today, we're starting with ingestion of GeoTIFF orthophotos, a basic preview in the Viewer, and exposing the datasets as WMTS and XYZ tiles. We're deliberately starting with an end-to-end pipeline enabling connectivity to downstream GIS tools via standard protocols, because that's where we see LumiDB's value first and foremost: LumiDB is the single connectivity layer across all these modalities. Better support for DSMs and DEMs, more comprehensive formats (ECW, ArcASCII, …) and more advanced Viewer capabilities will follow soon.
If you've got point clouds and rasters scattered across systems and want them in one place, get in touch.
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