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PurVIEW is an integrated image display and viewing
plug-in
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** Audio plug-in, adds audio signal processing features
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stereoscopic
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viewing technology for
ESRI
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., doing business as Esri (), is an American Multinational corporation, multinational geographic information system (GIS) software company headquartered in Redlands, California. It is best known for ...
ArcGIS
ArcGIS is a family of client, server and online geographic information system (GIS) software developed and maintained by Esri.
ArcGIS was first released in 1982 as ARC/INFO, a command line-based GIS. ARC/INFO was later merged into ArcGIS De ...
9 (or later version). Essentially, PurVIEW is a
photogrammetry
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-based data capture workstation that extend the ArcGIS environment. It converts Arc- desktops into precise stereo-viewing windows for geo-referenced aerial or space-borne imagery. Digitizing features directly yields positional accuracy comparable with photogrammetric mapping.
Using ArcMap,
geodatabase
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Most s ...
contents can be directly accessed and reviewed superimposed on standard geo-referenced 3-dimensional image models, revealing errors and omissions, or natural changes.
PurVIEW's creators, International Systemap, are working with ESRI to develop seamless software integration for the 2010 release of ArcGIS 9.4.
PurVIEW is suitable for a number of professional fields, such as mapping,
geomatics
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,
geology
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,
forestry
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and
mining
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