Some of the new feature highlights of Reality Studio 2024.1 are described below.
Distribute your reconstruction processing
Use distributed processing to reduce time-to-delivery and scale up production by splitting the processing workload of reconstructions among multiple workstations. Reconstructions are submitted as jobs to a workspace other workstations can connect to. Workstations can either contribute to the submitted jobs or monitor their progress.
With a decentralized approach, the workstation that submits the project to the workspace does not need to stay active for others to contribute, making the processing robust against connectivity issues (network instability, system updates, and so on).
Workstations with a valid Reality Studio license can easily connect to a workspace. The only other requirement is file access to the workspace and input data.
Once a workspace is set up, multiple projects can be submitted and processed without changing any settings on the contributing workstations. Workstations contributing to a workspace automatically pick up processing tasks of the jobs submitted.
Automatic image measurements
You can now speed-up the most manually involved step in the alignment workflow. Use the new Find Suggestions functionality in the Image Measurements tool to receive automatic measurement suggestions based on the image content of previous measurements.
Make two manual image measurements of the same point and click Find Suggestions to generate suggestions. Use different images as templates to generate more suggestions and approve all suggestions with a single click.
Perform alignments with multiple capture sessions
Optimize multiple capture sessions in a single Alignment process by modeling the systematic errors of each flight mission individually. Estimate global shifts and misalignment corrections per capture session.
Improvements in the Quality Assurance tool
Use the improved Quality Assurance tool to inspect your alignment results. Some of the improvements are described below.
Inspect your internal camera parameters optimization results
Get detailed statistical information about the alignment results of the camera's internal parameters. On the Cameras tab, choose any camera head and inspect it to detect possible outliers and errors.
Use the Camera Residual Plot view to detect remaining systematic errors such as uncompensated distortion. Choose between reprojection errors vectors or image count attributes per cell. Change the clustering scale using the slider and click a feature to view additional statistics.
Evaluate your individual camera poses optimization results
Get detailed statistical information of the individual camera poses for each camera session. Inspect these tables to detect possible outliers and errors.
Export and share
You can now customize your reconstruction products, export, and share them between contributors across desktop and online platforms. You can also export the project to a geodatabase to continue your work outside of Reality Studio. Some of the new features are described below.
Customize and export reconstruction products
Customize your reconstruction products and export them in your preferred ways. You can convert a reconstruction to different formats, apply a region of interest, resample raster products, change tiling on some raster and point cloud products, and project from one coordinate system to another.
Share reconstruction products online
Share reconstruction products to ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise portals so you can seamlessly integrate them into your other GIS workflows. On the Share pane you can customize the sharing settings by adding tags, setting sharing levels, and writing a summary of the content being shared.
Export your project to a geodatabase
Export a project to inspect or share with contributors through ArcGIS Pro.
The export project functionality creates a folder containing a geodatabase with relevant data for alignments, reconstructions, and datasets. It also includes a layer file that stores the layer symbology and a similar structure to your Reality Studio Project Tree.
Process offline
Use the ArcGIS Raster Data to configure Reality Studio for offline use in high-security environments or areas where continuous internet connectivity cannot be ensured.
Use datasets in foot units
Use your datasets with linear dimensions in foot units throughout the entire workflow.