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• PHOTOMOD 7.3: Expanded possibilities for using LAS, NDVI calculation support, acceleration of 3D models building process.

• Completion of the stereophotogrammetric complexes delivery for “Roskadastr” enterprises. It included 74 PHOTOMOD sets for stereo vectorization and 9 full sets of PHOTOMOD program.

• Kazakh enterprises have expanded cartographic production by using PHOTOMOD tools.

• More than 2 million sq. kms of radar survey data were delivered to our customers.

• Exhibitions and conferences: Interexpo GEO-Siberia 2022 (Russia), XIII International Research and Practice Conference “Geodesy. Mine Survey. Aerial Survey. Navigation” (Russia).

• II Joint International Scientific and Technical Conference “DIGITAL REALITY: Space & Geospatial Data, Processing Technologies”, September 12-15, 2022, St. Petersburg, Russia.

• Photogrammetric platform PHOTOMOD 7.1 and 7.2: new functional improvements. PHOTOMOD AutoUAS — new software for fully automatic processing of UAS images with the simplest interface. PHOTOMOD StereoClient —a new application for remote work in professional stereomode.
• The new version PHOTOMOD Radar 2.0.1 for SAR data processing.
• Joint International Scientific and Technical Conference “DIGITAL REALITY: Space & Geospatial Data, Processing Technologies”, September, 6-9, 2021, Irkutsk, Russia.
• Distribution agreement with Capella Space.
• More than 50 000 km² of satellite RSD were delivered to our customers.

• PHOTOMOD 7.0: better performance and advanced functionality, new approach to photogrammetric processing of remote sensing data.

• INTERGEO DIGITAL  (Germany), 2nd International Conference “Geodesy, Cartography and Digital Reality” (Russia), Bronze sponsorship of the XXIV ISPRS Congress (posponed to 2021).

• 20th International Scientific and Technical Conference “FROM IMAGERY TO DIGITAL REALITY: ERS & Photogrammetry” is postponed to 2021.

• More than 50 000 km² of satellite RSD were delivered to our customers.

• PHOTOMOD 6.5: new algorithm for the bundle adjustment, new distributed processing implementation, radical quality improvements of the 3D modeling and visualization, new 3D-feature extraction tools.

• National Geographic Information Institute granted PHOTOMOD to be an official Photogrammetric Suite in South Korea.

• Exhibited: Interexpo GEO-Siberia 2019 (Russia), INTERGEO (Germany), 1st International Conference “Geodesy, Cartography and Digital Reality” (Russia).

• 19th International Scientific and Technical Conference “FROM IMAGERY TO DIGITAL REALITY: ERS & Photogrammetry”, October 28-31, 2019, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

• Racurs: A Quarter of a Century in the Geoinformation Market. The Feodosy Nikolaevich Krasovsky Award for the best scientific and technical developments in geodesy and cartography

• PHOTOMOD 6.4: Automatic generation of textured 3D-models (3D-TIN), radical speeding up of satellite blocks adjustment, easing of PHOTOMOD UAS restriction on input image size to 80 MP.

• PHOTOMOD software is available at the cloud-based platform GeoCloud.work.

• A distributor agreement with the Space Rocket Centre Progress.

• Exhibited: Interexpo GEO-Siberia 2018 (Russia), Smart Geospatial Expo (Republic of Korea), INTERGEO (Germany), United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (China).

• 18th International Scientific and Technical Conference “FROM IMAGERY TO DIGITAL REALITY: ERS & Photogrammetry”, September 24-27, 2018.

• PHOTOMOD 6.3: fully automatic generation of True Ortho, more user-friendly PHOTOMOD UAS interface, increased reliability of UAS aerial triangulation.

• PHOTOMOD distribution agreements with DIT Space SRL (Costa Rica) and TerraLink (Kazakhstan).

• Exhibited: Geospatial World Forum (India), GEO-Siberia (Russia) INTERGEO (Germany).

• 17th International Scientific and Technical Conference “FROM IMAGERY TO DIGITAL REALITY: ERS & Photogrammetry”, October 16-19, 2017, Hadera, Israel.

• SI Imaging Services and Racurs concluded an agreement on mutually beneficial promotion of KOMPSAT data and PHOTOMOD.

• PHOTOMOD 6.1: dense DSM creation algorithm, StereoMeasure — forest valuation tools.

• PHOTOMOD dealer agreement with TERRANALISIS LTDA (Chile).

• Exhibited: GEO-Siberia (Russia), ASPRS (USA), ISPRS (Czech Republic), INTERGEO (Germany), Geomatics (Iran), Agrimensura (Cuba).

• 16th International Scientific and Technical Conference “FROM IMAGERY TO MAP: digital photogrammetric technologies”, November 14-17, Agra, India.

• PHOTOMOD Lite 2016 Contest.

• PHOTOMOD 6.0.2: new localization architecture including Chinese, English, Greek, Russian, Spanish languages.

• PHOTOMOD distribution agreement with SI Imaging Services (Korea).

• Exhibited: INTERGEO (Germany), GEO-Siberia (Russia), CUBA-2015 (Cuba), “Space Days in Kazakhstan” (Kazakhstan).

• Organized: Regional seminar “Modern photogrammetric technologies. New possibilities of PHOTOMOD 6.0”, June 4, 2015,Astana, Kazakhstan. Russian-Vietnam seminar “Russian Technology of Remote Sensing Data Receiving and Processing”, December 7-9, 2015, Hanoi, Vietnam.

• 15th International Scientific and Technical Conference “From imagery to map: digital photogrammetric technologies”, October 26-29, 2015, Yucatan, Mexico.

• Agreement with SI Imaging Services (Korea) on KOMPSAT-2,3,5 distribution in Russia, Belorussia and Kazakhstan.

• PHOTOMOD 6.0: new possibilities, increase of RSD data processing volume and rate.

• PHOTOMOD UAS — stand-alone full photogrammetric UAS-oriented software.

• ISO 9000 certified.

• Partnership agreement with National Company “Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary”.

• PHOTOMOD distribution agreement with OFEK Aerial Photography (Israel).

• Exhibited: INTERGEO (Berlin, Germany), GEO-Siberia (Novosibirsk, Russia).

• Organized: Third regional seminar: “3D-modeling. DPW PHOTOMOD” (Ekaterinburg, Russia), the regional seminar in Kazakhstan “Modern technologies of RSD processing. DPW PHOTOMOD”, 14th International Scientific and Technical Conference “From Imagery to Map: Digital Photogrammetric Technologies”, China.

• PHOTOMOD education seminars were held in Greece, India, Russia.

• Quantity of the orthomaps, 3D-models, DTMs were created by the Production Department.

• Racurs Celebrates 20 Successful Years.

• PHOTOMOD 5.24: ability to process SPOT 6 imagery, full localization in Chinese, new DEM edit toolbar, speeding up the new operations in distributed processing mode.

• Agreements with: RAM Trade company (Kazakhstan), PHOTOMAP (Slovak).

• GeoForm+ 2013, GeoSiberia 2013, Earth from Space, INTERGEO 2013, GEO-GIS Mongolia, Geomatics-2013 (GeoCuba), 13^th International Scientific and Technical Conference “From imagery to map: digital photogrammetric technologies” (France).

• PHOTOMOD education seminars were held in Greece, Turkey, China, France, Cuba, Russia.

• Quantity of the orthomaps were created by the Production Department.

• PHOTOMOD 5.24: ability to process Canopus-B and Pleiades imagery, the templates for fast and convenient vectorization of roofs, support of new type of metadata for frame VisionMap A3 images.

• PHOTOMOD Lite Contest.

• Personal Account Service.

• Agreement with Astrium GEO-Information Services.

• XXII ISPRS Congress, Russian-Chinese PHOTOMOD seminar, INTERGEO, Geoform+, GEO-Siberia, 12^th International Scientific and Technical Conference “From imagery to map: digital photogrammetric technologies” (Algarve, Portugal).

• PHOTOMOD 5.2. New adjustment best for UAV, 3D models with textures in 3D-Mod module, new pushbroom scanner images adjustment.

• Agreements with Galantis (USA), Navayuga Middle East FZC (UAE), Geomatica Ingenieria (Colombia).

• Geoform+ 2011, GEO-Siberia — 2011, Earth from Space — the Most Effective Solutions, 11^th International Scientific and Technical Conference "From imagery to map: digital photogrammetric technologies" (Spain).

• New learning opportunities: webinars, video tutorials.

• Quantity of orthomaps were created by Production Department.

• PHOTOMOD 5.1: GPGPU technology support, new algorithm of DTM building and filtering, lidar data converting to DEM of unlimited size.
  

• Special PHOTOMOD HPC Edition for high-performance computing clusters.

• PHOTOMOD Radar: new software tool of coherent co-registration of SAR images and coherent change detection, quality estimation software tools.

• Agreement with Geosatelites, S.A. (Nicaragua).

• INTERGEO EAST, Geoform+, GEO-Siberia, Map Asia, Xth International Scientific and Technical Conference “From imagery to map: digital photogrammetric technologies” (Gaeta, Italy).

• 4000 orthomaps were created by Production Department.

• PHOTOMOD 5.0. New level of automation and productivity.
  

• Agreements with Alezi Teodolini (Brazil), Media Data Communication (Indonesia), GEOINFO SERVICES (Malaysia), CIS GmbH (Germany).

• GeoEye´s Most Innovative International Channel/Reseller.

• PHOTOMOD has been certified for using in Russian Ministry of Defence.

• Geoform+ 2009, GEO-Siberia — 2009, IVth International Conference "Earth from Space - the Most Effective Solutions", 2nd IXth International Scientific and Technical Conference "From imagery to map: digital photogrammetric technologies" (Attica, Greece).

• Quantity of orthomaps were created by Production Department.

• PHOTOMOD 4.4: new GCP Survey module, 3D objects while exporting to AutoCAD, direct input of GPS data, distributed processing.

• PHOTOMOD Radar: new Ship detection, Sea-Waves analysis modules, Polarimetric processor.

• Agreements with Sistemi Avanzati srl (Italy) and SIGMAGEO (Portugal)

• ISPRS, INTERGEO EAST, Geoform+ 2008, GEO-Siberia, VIIIth International Scientific and Technical Conference "From imagery to map: digital photogrammetric technologies" (Porec, Croatia).

• 4000 orthomaps were created by Production Department. 3D modeling of cities.

PHOTOMOD 4.3: block layout by projection centers only, bundle adjustment, TIN simplifying with user-defined level of accuracy.

PHOTOMOD 4.2: radiometric correction of images, support of hand wheels/foot pedals for stereo vectorization, pan-sharpening.

PHOTOMOD Radar 4.2: image processing tools, oil spill detection processor.

Geomatica-2007, INTERGEO EAST, Geoform+ 2007, GEO-Siberia — 2007, VIIth International Scientific and Technical Conference "From imagery to map: digital photogrammetric technologies" (Nessebar, Bulgaria).

Racurs has been awarded the Big Gold Medal of Siberian Fair in the frame of GEO-Siberia — 2007.

• PHOTOMOD 4.1: "monoblock" and "stereoblock" processing for all supported scanner sensors.

• PHOTOMOD 4.0: fully automated tie points measurement, RPC-stereoblock processing.

• Agreement with GIS Sofia (Bulgaria), "Uralgeoinform" (Russia).

• INTERGEO EAST, Geoform+ 2006, GEO-Siberia — 2006, VI International PHOTOMOD User Conference (Budva, Becici).

• Racurs has been awarded the Big Gold Medal of Siberian Fair in the frame of GEO-Siberia — 2006.

• PHOTOMOD 3.8.: working with georeferenced raster maps in AT and StereoDraw modules. 
  PHOTOMOD GeoMosaic: georeferencing and mosaicking raster images from a number of external formats independently of the PHOTOMOD system.

• License agreement with ORBIMAGE, Inc. 

• Racurs won the World Bank's tender to supply forestry enterprises with software tools. 

• V International PHOTOMOD User Conference (Jurmala).

• PHOTOMOD 3.6. New modules: PHOTOMOD StereoLink (stereo feature extraction within Microstation environment) and PHOTOMOD Radar (SAR data processing). 
  PHOTOMOD 3.7: epipolar transformation “on-the-fly”, QuickBird and IKONOS mono blocks processing, SPOT 5 imagery processing (HRG and HRS sensors).

• XX^th ISPRS Congress in Istanbul, IV International PHOTOMOD User Conference (Minsk).

• Agreement with the Czech company GEODIS Brno, certification of PHOTOMOD Ver.3.6 by Space Imaging

• PHOTOMOD 3.5. ASTER, IKONOS, QuickBird images processing.

• Delivery of 28 sets of PHOTOMOD within a tender in lot 5-C of LARIS project of International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for Russian Federal Land Survey Cadastre centers in Irkutsk and Saratov.

• Racurs was licenced by the Federal service of geodesy and cartography of Russia to cartographical production.

• The III^rd International PHOTOMOD User Conference (Golitsino). Celebration of Racurs 10 years jubilee.

1. PHOTOMOD 3.11. Automatic interior orientation in AT module. Introduction of Mosaic module.

2. The II^nd International PHOTOMOD User Conference (St. Petersburg).

3. Production project: aerial survey data processing of electric power lines (about 6000 images).

• PHOTOMOD 3.0. Network technology, scanner space imagery processing.

• The I^st International PHOTOMOD User Conference (Irkutsk).

• Production Department formation, realization of first photogrammetric processing projects.

• Further system development: graphic user interface in Solver module, support for compressed images.

• New site www.racurs.ru.

• PHOTOMOD AT module - Block triangulation and adjustment.

• Introduction of VectOr module, based on GIS "Panorama".

• PHOTOMOD becomes a registered trade mark in Russia.

• Stereo feature extraction with code table.

• Entrance into ISPRS as a sustaining member.

• PHOTOMOD ScanCorrect. DTP scanner calibration.

• Sertification of the PHOTOMOD software by FCC Zemlya for using in Russian State Land Use Committee organisations.

• PHOTOMOD StereoDraw. 3D vectorization in stereo.

• First agreements with foreign dealers.

• PHOTOMOD DTM (DTM creation and editing, contour lines generation, orthorectification).

• PHOTOMOD VectOr (object drawing and editing on orthophoto).

• Entrance into GIS Market Support Association of Russia.

• The first commercially available version of PHOTOMOD. Single stereopair orientation, stereo visualization, matching.
  

• Racurs company foundation.