BENTLEY DESCARTES V8 XM Edition Comprehensive imaging solution for mapping, visualization, and raster-to-vector conversion

Product Overview

Bentley Descartes is the only imaging solution that is truly integrated with MicroStation, adding high-performance raster operations. Quickly warp, reference, resample, mosaic, or reproject images or create image scenes for visualization and analysis with 3D terrain draping. Use integrated Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Line Following for document conversion and take advantage of a robust toolset to repair and enhance legacy drawings.

Bentley Descartes was designed to serve the mapping and visualization needs of professionals in many industries. It is used worldwide across disciplines, including mapping, land management, surveying, energy exploration, civil and environmental engineering, plant design, and architectural design. Because Bentley Descartes is tightly integrated with MicroStation, it can be customized to fit virtually any workflow where imaging automation is needed.

Descartes is a full 24-bit imaging application and handles all industry-standard file formats natively, including the most popular aerial and satellite file formats. Whether your need is high quality cartography, production mapping, image maps, or vivid 3D visualization, Bentley Descartes provides the solution.

Descartes provides full 24-bit imagery support, simplified corridor planning tools, and hybrid displays.

Key Features

Visualization

Interpretation and document conversion

High-fidelity imaging

On-the-fly projection of georeferenced images

Cleanup, editing, and enhancement

Image manipulation

WYSIWYG georeferencing and registration

Seamless image mosaics

High-performance display

Native binary, grayscale and color format support

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BENTLEY DESCARTES The only imaging solution truly integrated with MicroStation Benefits • Integrate imagery to facilitate the best decisions and avoid rework in planning, design, and

throughout a project or facility lifecycle with realistic, lifelike 3-D visualization of the surrounding terrain.

• Accelerate Project Approval and Funding through the creation of highly professional presentation images, animations, and fly-through.

• Expedite work and save time and money with rapid image interpretation and conversion.

• Preserve and exploit your existing scanned documents or drawings 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 to support map production and digital map creation for your business or government’s needs.

• Take advantage of the seamless integration of Descartes with MicroStation to avoid dual working environments for raster and vector information and take advantage of existing MicroStation skills in your organization. DWG with raster is Descartes and Raster Manager is also compliant.

• Capitalize on the high performance display engine and the capabilities of Descartes to rapidly 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 image.

• Drape imagery on Digital Elevation Models to create a real world visual display, perform solar studies,

and execute situation analysis and planning for defense and industrial operations.

• Use the extensive Descartes API to gain maximum productivity by automating repeatable workflows that can be executed in batch or customizing the interactive environment to your needs.

Case Studies Danish Road Directorate: LARGIS (Land Acquisition GIS) helps them better understand the impact of specific routes, to determine a fair and accurate location of current highways and to manage cadastral information and land parcel creation more proactively.

Honduras Land Information System: The Honduras Land Administration Project (PATH), provides Hondurans with accurate information on urban and rural land parcels and cost-effective land administration services.

Case Study: Helsinki 3D Mapping: The City of Helsinki, Finland created a new, accurate 3D model. The maps and database are used by City Planning, Public Works, Helsinki Energy, Gas, and Water departments, as well as Helsinki Harbour and the Public Transportation Authority.

Oldham Metropolitan Burough Council Environmental Protection Management: A composite of historic information, maps, and data was brought into Oldham’s corporate geospatial system to analyze alongside current information to investigate possible contamination left by historic industrial operations.

Case Study: Gdansk Urban Planning: The Gdansk Development Agency (BRG) creates local urban plans to ensure sustainable development for Gdansk and its 500,000 residents.

Standard File Formats

New! ECW (unlimited), PDF, IMG, JPEG 2000, BIL, DOQ, FLI, SPOT CAP and Digital

Image Map

TIFF (1 to 32-bit), GEOTIFF, iTIFF, COT, CIT, RLE, CALS, PCX, IMG, BUM, TG4, INT, RGB, TGA, JPEG, RLC, RS, HMR, BMP, and IKONOS 3,

and 4 bands from Space Imaging

Compression schemes:

Deflate, PackBits, CCITT3, CCITT4, and JPEG

Wavelet compression

schemes: ECW and MrSID

System Requirements

Intel Pentium-based or AMD Athlon

Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP2 or higher recommended†), Windows XP, Windows NT 4 (SP6 recommended†),

Windows 98 (Second Edition recommended), Windows Me

Prerequisite Application:

MicroStation V8 XM Edition, Geospatial Extension (for raster reprojection and

WMS functionality)

Supported graphics card. Dual-screen graphics supported with vendor-

supplied drivers for Windows NT 4. Multi-monitor configurations supported with Windows 98, Windows 2000 and

Windows XP

In addition to the MicroStation V8 XM Edition requirements, Bentley

Descartes requires the following: 512 MB Memory (1GB or more typically

results in better performance) 150 MB minimum free disk space for

product installation

For more information, visit www.bentley.com/descartes