eCognition Server software provides a powerful processing environment for batch and parallel execution of analysis jobs, based on Rule Sets or applications.ĮCognition Suite 9.4 Highlights Improved UI EfficiencyĮCognition Suite 9.4 includes a number of user interface improvements that are designed to make general software use easier and rule set development quicker by making tools more efficient.Users can easily configure, calibrate and execute analysis applications (Rule Set in combination with a UI) created in eCognition Developer. eCognition Architect enables non-technical professionals such as vegetation mapping experts, urban planners or foresters to leverage eCognition technology.It is used in geospatial industry to develop Rule Sets or applications for eCognition Architect for the automatic analysis of geospatial data. eCognition Developer is the development environment for object-based image analysis.
The eCognition Suite offers three different components which can be used stand-alone or in combination to solve even the most challenging fully automated and semi-automated production tasks: The proximity of eCognition to GIS, its ability to link and fuse the available data in an analysis - combined with the straightforward export of results to GIS layers - help eCognition users to achieve outstanding results.
The result is a unique approach to translate mind models (why a human interpreter can see the objects, changes, or features in the geospatial data) into computer understandable code (Rule Set) or an individual/customized application.ĮCognition can fuse a variety of geospatial data, such as spectral image data, 3D structure data from point clouds and spatial/thematic data from GIS vectors. To build an analysis solution, it is possible to flexibly combine the image interpretation steps like object creation (segmentation), object classification (knowledge based, fuzzy logic, machine learning), object detection (template matching) and object modification (fusing, smoothing, orthogonalization, simplification) into a Rule Set or even a new application (Rule Set with UI) to solve the analysis problem. Just like the human mind, it uses color, shape, texture, shape and size of objects, as well as their context and relationships, to draw the same conclusions that an experienced analyst would draw. It builds up a picture iteratively, recognizing groups of pixels as objects. The eCognition technology examines image pixels not in isolation, but in context. A complete list of new features and bug fixes can be found in chapter New Features - Bug Fixes and Limitations.
For an overview of the highlights please refer to the chapter Overview. We recommend upgrading to this new version to benefit from the new features and improvements.
eCognition then combines the analysis logic with scalable computing power to identify changes over time or features on the earth’s surface across very large sets of data.ĮCognition Suite version 9.5 is a major release and includes a range of new features and bug fixes.
The analysis logic is structured into series of steps to create a computer-based representation of an expert’s geospatial interpretation process a so called Rule Set. It is designed to improve, accelerate and automate the interpretation of a variety of geospatial data and enables users to design feature extraction or change detection solutions to transform geospatial data into geo-information.ĮCognition imports a variety of geospatial data, fusing them together into a rich stack of geo-data for the analysis.
Are there any other free simulation software/packages one can point me at ? Preferably, something that can be easily tight to a GIS environnment (ESRI ArcGIS for example) for easier raster/vector processing.Trimble® eCognition® Suite is an advanced analysis software available for geospatial applications. I ran into land use simulation models mostly based on Cellular Automaton (CA) concepts such as Land Use Sim ( ) but it seems to be a paid software. I am now looking into modelling the changes using a set of driving factors (yet to be identified) and assess land cover changes. As such, I now have land cover maps for the watershed at four dates, 1985, 1995, 20. I have been able to map them accurately enough using remote sensing analysis of Landsat 5 TM/Landsat 8 OLI Images. I am mainly interested in three types of land units, namely bare soils, cultivated soils and vegetated areas. As part of a research work, I am modelling Land Use/Land cover changes over the span of 4 decades on a 40 km² watershed in a rural area located in sahelian climate (west africa).