SkylineGlobe Product Suite
The SkylineGlobe software suite sets the standard for 3D desktop and web-based applications, enabling an enterprise to build and efficiently publish realistic 3D environments that can be explored, queried, analyzed and edited by desktop, web, and mobile clients. The suite includes:
§ Editors – PhotoMesh, TerraBuilder, and TerraExplorer Pro
§ Cloud Services – Streaming, Storing, and Cataloging
§ Clients – Desktop, Mobile, and Web applications
SkylineGlobe Product Suite
The SkylineGlobe Enterprise solution is scalable, with licenses to support from ten to tens of thousands of concurrent users.
Whether deploying a desktop, mobile or web-based application, SkylineGlobe Enterprise provides a full Application Programming Interface (API) allowing you to customize it according to your requirements. Because SkylineGlobe Enterprise is based on open OGC standards such as WFS and WMS, it can operate as a seamless 3D interface with other existing, legacy systems within the organization.
"On the fly" data fusion from disparate and distributed sources without data pre-processing allows you to keep your 3D environment current and relevant.
Skyline’s range of products allows users to design an implementation customized to meet their requirements. Deployment options include the ability to work in a networked or disconnected (off-line) mode and make content available to the public or keep it restricted to secure networks and authorized users. Highly efficient streaming server technology supports large enterprise deployments with minimal hardware requirements.
Editors
Skyline offers powerful applications for generating, editing and publishing 3D terrain and urban model databases from a wide variety of data types.
TerraBuilder
TerraBuilder is a 3D terrain database creator with professional-grade tools for manipulating and merging orthophotos, DEM and DSM raster files of different sizes and resolutions. The resulting photo-realistic, geographically accurate terrain database (MPT) can be made available to local TerraExplorer clients or published to remote clients using the SkylineGlobe Server.
PhotoMesh
Skyline’s breakthrough PhotoMesh application fully automates the building of high-resolution, textured, 3D mesh models from oblique and nadir photographs and LiDAR captured from street view, drones, UAV and airplanes. PhotoMesh results can be generated in standard 3D model (3DML, OSGB, DAE, OBJ), raster (Orthophoto, DSM, DTM) and point cloud (LAS) formats.
TerraExplorer Pro
TerraExplorer Pro is a powerful GIS tool for merging unlimited, geo-referenced 3D terrain, 3D mesh, LiDAR, BIM, raster and feature layers into a 3D high-resolution, geospatial environment. The project and all its individual layers can be directly uploaded and published to SkylineGlobe cloud server from TerraExplorer. Through a single publishing operation, the project and its individual layers are made available to all TerraExplorer clients: Desktop, Mobile, and TerraExplorer Fusion, as well as standard geospatial clients. TerraExplorer Pro also provides powerful tools and a high resolution 3D environment in which to view, query, analyze and present geospatial data.
Cloud Services
SkylineGlobe Server (SGS) is a private cloud solution that provides a comprehensive set of web services for publishing, storing, managing and streaming 3D spatial data. SkylineGlobe Server provides streaming services for all your spatial data types including terrain (MPT/TBP), map (raster-WMS/WMTS), feature (WFS/WFS-T), 3D Mesh (3DML, OGC 3D Tiles, SLPK (I3S)), and point cloud (CPT, OGC 3D Tiles). All data on your server is cataloged and referenced so clients can easily find the specific published layer required. Your data is kept safe by multiple security layers, including restriction of each user group to predefined data folders and a robust user authentication mechanism.
The server’s built-in complete user access control system allows easy management of users, groups, and administrative roles controlling the server-side storage and client-side view/edit permissions.
SkylineGlobe Server is compliant with the following OpenGIS Implementation Specifications:
§ OpenGIS® Web Feature Service (WFS) Implementation Specification
§ OpenGIS® Web Feature Service Transactions (WFS-T) Implementation Specification
§ OpenGIS® Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification
§ OpenGIS® Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS) Implementation Specification
SkylineGlobe Terrain Service
Powerful terrain service technology for streaming terrain data stored either in Skyline optimized terrain databases (MPT) or in terrain databases defined by the TerraBuilder project file (TBP) to remote TerraExplorer clients and any application that reads the standard OGC WMS/WMTS protocol.
SkylineGlobe Feature Service
Powerful feature service technology for streaming point, polyline, and polygon feature layers from files and from the Oracle, SQL server, PostGIS and ArcSDE databases to remote TerraExplorer clients and any application that reads the standard OGC WFS protocol. The Feature Service can stream most TerraExplorer supported feature layer formats. It also supports advanced spatial and attribute queries from TerraExplorer and other WFS clients. With SGS’s support for WFS-T (Web Feature Service-Transactional), remote clients can edit (create, delete, and update features) the feature layer and save changes to the data source.
SkylineGlobe Maps Service
Powerful maps service technology for streaming most TerraExplorer supported raster layer formats to remote TerraExplorer clients and any application that reads the standard OGC WMS/WMTS protocol. The layers are streamed as WMS/WMTS tiles in JPEG and PNG formats.
SkylineGlobe 3D Mesh Service
Powerful 3D city model service technology for streaming 3D Mesh Layer (3DML) databases from 3DML files to remote TerraExplorer clients. 3D mesh layers (3DML) are high-resolution, textured, 3D mesh models that have been compressed and stream-optimized to accelerate loading speed and efficiently handle memory. The 3D Mesh Service also exposes the data as 3D tiles for Cesium based clients.
SkylineGlobe Point Cloud Service
Powerful point cloud service technology for streaming multi-resolution and stream-optimized point cloud data from CPT files to remote TerraExplorer clients. The Point Cloud Service also exposes the data as 3D tiles for Cesium based clients.
Clients
Skyline offers a range of 3D visualization clients that enable users to interact with, edit and annotate a geo-referenced 3D environment. Users can customize the database with data from a network, local drive or the Internet. Overlaying data specific to the user’s requirements onto a 3D map creates a targeted, interactive picture that can meet the needs of a diverse user base and the specific requirements of each individual user. Skyline’s client applications can be used in a local desktop environment, accessing terrain and content data directly, or in a network environment via the SkylineGlobe server.
TerraExplorer Desktop
A cutting-edge 3D GIS desktop viewer and creator that provides powerful tools and a high resolution 3D environment in which to view, query, analyze and present geospatial data.
With TerraExplorer's robust and extensive capabilities and ever-increasing interoperability, stunningly realistic 3D visualizations can be created by overlaying the terrain with unlimited data layers, 3D models, virtual objects and more.
TerraExplorer Fusion
TerraExplorer Fusion is a powerful 3D geospatial viewer that enables you to view and analyze high-resolution, stunningly realistic 3D content right in your web browser with no download or installation required. TerraExplorer Fusion enables viewing of most online layers and objects published to SkylineGlobe Server, performing powerful measurements and analysis operations, and dynamically exploring the 3D World via presentations which merge a custom flight path with distinct displays of the project. Built on HTML5/ WebGL standards, TerraExplorer Fusion ensures compatibility with multiple platforms and browsers.
TerraExplorer Fusion is based on TerraExplorer Desktop source code converted to WebAssembly. This conversion technology provides exceptional compatibility, enabling most of the original TerraExplorer Desktop code to run as-is in web browsers with numerous advantages, including support for nearly all the layers and objects supported by the Desktop version, consistent API for code sharing, and powerful performance.
TerraExplorer for Mobile
TerraExplorer for Mobile is a customizable, 3D GIS viewer for Android and Apple iOS devices that enables you to view high-resolution SkylineGlobe 3D content. The TerraExplorer for Mobile app can display most of your spatial databases including 3D city layers and feature layers, and it provides powerful tools to query, analyze and present your data on the go. TerraExplorer for Mobile seamlessly accesses online data from Skyline’s SkylineGlobe server and other OGC-compliant servers, and quickly loads online TerraExplorer projects.