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Presented by: Inga Morozoff, Bentley

Bentley Descartes V8i

Agenda

• What is Bentley Descartes?

• Where is it used?

• Features

• Benefits

• Live demo

• Questions and Answers

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What is Bentley Descartes?

• One high-performance product seamlessly integrated with MicroStation

• High productivity raster-to-vector conversion for mapping and engineering

• Vivid, lifelike visualizations and animations support better decisions and speed project approval

Bentley Descartes V8i is the only imaging solution that is truly integrated with MicroStation for high productivity visualization, mapping, and raster-to-vector conversion in a single product.

Where is Bentley Descartes Used?

• National, State, and Local Government

• Utilities

• Mapping and Surveying

• Architectural and Building Design

• Pipeline

• Oil and Gas Exploration

• Transportation

Bentley Descartes is used by these industries: National Governments and their entities that use aerial photography or satellite imagery in mapping or intelligence activities such as Military, Census, and Cadastre. In these orgainizations Descartes is used for site planning, corridor studies and visualization using image draping and in map conversion processes. Local Government organizations responsible for mapping the cadastre, public works, transportation, and urban planning use Descartes. Typical workflows include mapping, 3D visualization for urban planning, support of road planning and design, as well as map conversion workflows. Descartes is used by transmission organizations in utilities responsible for mapping corridors for electric or gas transmission lines. Likewise those in the distribution side of the utility, who are making use of imagery and aerial photography for planning and mapping their facilities. Organizations who are choosing sites for new substations, plants, or other larger facilities will use Descartes to assist what that process.

Of course, mapping and surveying companies use Descartes in imaging and mapping workflows, including pre-processing images for use in design or mapping applications. Pipeline companies that are mapping corridors for pipeline and gas transmission lines will use Descartes for risk assessment and area classification. Descartes is also used by the oil and gas industry for well localization and studies and in exploration workflows. Lastly, Descartes is used in the workflows of transportation planning and engineering.

Features of Bentley Descartes

• High Performance Image Display

• Realistic dynamic visualization

• Rapid interpretation and raster-to-vector conversion

• Precision mapping and engineering

• Image manipulation

• Document cleanup, editing, and enhancing

• Precision registration and resampling

• Interactive seamless mosaics

• Native support for industry formats

These top features of Bentley Descartes will be explored in upcoming slides starting with the first bullet…

High Performance Display

• Built on high-speed MicroStation Raster Manager

• Transparency, display order and display planes

• Cache system ensures high performance for all image formats out the need for conversion

Descartes is built on the Raster Manager, which is the high-speed raster display engine delivered with MicroStation. Images can be loaded in a flash and zoomed and panned interactively. You have full control over the display order of raster and vector data, ensuring an optimal display and plot every time. Images can also be rendered transparent or translucent, providing a great deal of flexibility in presentation of hybrid vector raster data sets. Descartes uses a high performance cache system that makes both Bentley and Non-Bentley image formats display quickly and accurately.

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Realistic, Lifelike Visualization

• Image Draping on DTM or 3D Objects

• Based on MicroStation rendering

• Include textures, lighting effects, shadows, and fog

• Create dynamic presentations, fly-throughs and animations

• Plot or publish to 3D PDFs

It’s easy to create exciting, dynamic presentations with Bentley Descartes. Drape an image or mosaic over a digital terrain model to create an accurate, seamless 3D image scene that depicts your project in the most lifelike manner possible with real life textures and conditions. Visualization facilitates the best decisions and avoids rework in planning and design by providing a realistic view of the project and the surrounding terrain. It also accelerates project approval and funding through the creation of highly professional presentation images, animations, and fly-throughs.

K90 Interchange North of Johannesburg International Airport

Interpretation and Conversion

• Automatic and interactive modes to create topologically ready linework.

• Raster Snap

• Convert contours and automatically assign elevations

• Convert all connected lines or just an area

• Erase raster while vectorizing

• Optical Character Recognition with foreign language support

• Raster symbol recognition and replacement

Bentley Descartes provides rapid interpretation and raster-to-vector conversion by providing fingertip control over all editing functions . It expedites work, saving time and money with a robust set of tools including cleanup, vectorization, and Optical Character Recognition. These easy-to-use conversion tools ensure raster-to-vector conversion is performed with accuracy and efficiency. Descartes can also isolate a color and extract the associated features through line following or heads-up digitizing at survey level accuracy for input to engineering processes. Preserve and exploit your existing scanned documents and drawings by converting them to MicroStation with Bentley Descartes.

Precision Mapping and Engineering

• High fidelity imaging with MicroStation accuracy

• Raster as DGN elements, DWG is also supported

• Seamless integration

Bentley Descartes provides high-fidelity imaging to support precision mapping and engineering by enabling you to combine imagery in virtually any format and projection with the precision mapping capabilities of MicroStation. Bentley Descartes gives you an unparalleled level of integration for raster data. Bentley Descartes takes full advantage of the geometric accuracy of the MicroStation environment so you can leverage images for survey quality mapping and precision engineering. The seamless integration of Bentley Descartes with MicroStation avoids dual working environments for raster and vector information.

Alexandra Park Restoration, Oldham Metropolitan B.C. Bentley Descartes was used on this project which authentically replicated or restored original structures that once stood on the site and enhanced the rich municipal heritage by creating new paths, bridges, improved landscaping and infrastructure.

Flexible Image Manipulation

• Translate, scale, rotate, crop, move, merge and more

• Clipping and cropping non-rectangular shapes

• Transparency and translucency support

• WYSIWYG enhancement tools

• Work with images as elements

• Selection set operations

Bentley Descartes includes tools to crop, copy, move, merge, scale, mirror, square, and rotate images or objects within images, as well as tools to make regions of images translucent or transparent. These interactive tools provide dynamic feedback, making image manipulation intuitive and efficient. Clip raster to reveal what lies beneath, or clip raster to a polygon shape. You can work with single images, or apply an operation to a selection set of images. Cut or copy a section of an image to another area taking advantage of the Color Mask tools to selectively refine the operation by color. Use these capabilities to automate production of montages, corridor and plan sheet alignments, or to lay out plots or documents. Use the extensive Descartes API to gain maximum productivity through automating repeatable workflows that can be executed in batch or customizing the interactive environment to your specific needs.

Cleanup, Editing, and Enhancement

• Automated despeckling and interactive cleanup tools

• Cleanup masks specify which colors are modified

• Rich set of raster editing and touch-up tools

• Clean up scanned legacy drawings for conversion or restoration

Clean-up drawings by filling in holes and reduce noise by de-speckling. The cleanup tools can be applied to a specified area of the image and be used with colour masks. Rapidly improve the quality of poor source drawings in order to take advantage of automated conversion tools or quickly restore and enhance legacy drawings to prolong their life. Bentley Descartes also provides a rich set of tools to edit images. Touch-up tools make it easy to remove unwanted pixels in an image or improve the quality of raster linework. Simple but powerful brushing tools can be used to paint or edit selected portions of an image with brushes that filter to specific target colors.

Rapidly improve the quality of poor source drawings in order to take advantage of automated conversion tools or quickly restore and enhance legacy drawings to prolong their life.

Georeferencing and Registration

• WYSIWYG Image Registration

• Dynamic warping with preview before resampling the image

• Vector data can also be transformed

• No residuals warping feature

Descartes unique WYSIWYG image registration is much more intuitive than other approaches that require distinct windows for vector and image data and that rely heavily upon transformational statistics. Register provides for dynamic warping which overlays vector data over the uncorrected image so you can verify the transformation model before resampling the image. It also provides for transformation of vector data through the same model and batch resampling of images.

Precision registration is designed for production efficiency.

Seamless Image Mosaics

• Rapidly mosaic multiple images

• Tone balancing

• Seam definition and feathering

• Images can be combined into one image or remain separate

Capitalize on the high performance display engine and the capabilities of Bentley Descartes to create seamless mosaics of multiple images, scanned aerial photos, or adjacent raster scanned images to see the complete picture for use in your business processes. Choose to leave the source images in their original form to produce a mosaic or create an easily transportable mosaic all in one file. Several images can be done at once, and the process is swift, interactive and can be completed in minutes!

Native Support for Industry Formats

• Built on high-speed MicroStation Raster Manager

• Cache system ensures high performance for all image formats

• Formats are supported natively – no conversion required to begin work

• Ability to convert images to any supported format

• Georeferencing information inherent in image is used for automatic placement

Bentley Descartes provides support for a wide variety of industry-standard image formats. Native binary, grayscale, and color image formats (1, 4, 8, 11 and 24, 48, and 64 bits). All formats are implemented natively for optimal performance. Open and Save operations are done without additional conversion. Likewise, files can easily be converted to any supported format, providing flexibility to address internal standards and to support exchange with other systems.

ProjectWise Integration

• iDesktop Integration– Raster attachment and world files

– Check/Copy Out control from Raster Manager GUI

– Controlled Auto-Check-in/out

• Reference Out– New technology allowing raster files to be “streamed

out” instead of totally copied out

– Saves Time and Disks Space

All Bentley Descartes V8 XM Edition features for opening or creating a file can now access either a ProjectWise folder or a local folder. As an example, you can use the Corridor tool with images from a local hard disc and output the Corridor image to ProjectWise. Bentley Descartes editing features will verify the state of the image and will function only if the image is "Checked Out". To check out an opened image, simply remove the check mark from the Read-Only column in the Raster Manager dialog box. This integration is available throughout the Bentley Descartes application.

What’s new in Bentley Descartes V8i

• Enhanced Merge Tool

• Editing 3D Oriented Rasters

• Binary File Enhancements

• Dynamic Raster Snap

• Local Transform Tools

• Vectorize Enhancements

• Copy/Paste integrated with the Windows Clipboard

• Resample a Raster to Another Coordinate System

• New Filters

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Benefits of Bentley Descartes

• Integrate imagery to facilitate the best decisions.

• Accelerate Project Approval and funding with professional presentation images, animations, and fly-through.

• Expedite work with rapid image interpretation and enhancement and conversion.

• Exploit existing scanned documents by converting them to MicroStation using cleanup, vectorization, and OCR tools.

• Combine imagery in virtually any format and projection with the precision mapping capabilities of MicroStation and Bentley’s Geospatial applications.

Benefits of Bentley Descartes

• Seamless integration with MicroStation avoids dual working environments and takes advantage of existing MicroStation skills. DWG with raster is also supported.

• Rapidly create seamless mosaics to see the complete picture for use in your business processes.

• Combine imagery with existing vector data and use the tools provided in Bentley’s geospatial products for precision mapping and engineering.

• Use visualization for to execute situation analysis and planning for defense and industrial operations.

• Use the Descartes API to automate repeatable workflows, batch or interactive.

Thank you.

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