Blue Marble Geographics® has released new versions of its GIS and point cloud editing software development kits (SDK) — the Global Mapper® SDK and LiDAR Module® SDK. The version 21 SDKs incorporate enhancements from the recent releases of the desktop versions of the software, including the addition of the LiDAR Module's photogrammetric tool — Pixels-to-Points® — for generating point clouds from drone and UAV images.

For more than 20 years, Global Mapper has been renowned for its ease of use, powerful analysis capability, and support for more than 300 file formats. The Global Mapper and LiDAR Module SDKs enable developers to add the functionality of Global Mapper and the LiDAR Module to their own applications and to create custom toolbars and extensions for the desktop version of Global Mapper. New capabilities added in the version 21 release of the Global Mapper SDK and LiDAR Module SDK include the following:

New Features in the Global Mapper SDK

• Speed enhancements in the display of tiled online image sources

• Significant speed improvements in the drawing of ECW files

• Faster exports to tiled palette-based formats

• High bit depth raster exports now support resampling  

• Faster multi-threaded processing when verbose error log levels, such as Debug or Debug Extreme, are enabled

• Improved display of online tiled sources where only part of the zoom level is filled with data 

New Features in the LiDAR Module SDK

• Automatic identification and reclassification of utility poles from a point cloud layer

• Many updates to the Pixels-to-Points tool (via GENERATE_POINT_CLOUD script command) including improved quality, enhanced orthorectification, and color harmonization

• Speed improvements when gridding LiDAR data with large gaps

For a complete list of updates or to download the Global Mapper SDK today, visit: www.bluemarblegeo.com/products/global-mapper-sdk.php.