Deploying DMC in today's workflow

The mission of Z/I Imaging is to bring our customers best-in-class solutions for the entire photogrammetric production process; from acquisition via exploitation to digital distribution. With the availability of a digital camera, it will be possible to completely close this process-chain. As a consequence the management of this digital workflow becomes more considerable. Besides new digital image quality, benefits like cost and time saving will lead to higher productivity. The advantage of this flexible, fully digital workflow can just be empowered by introducing efficient data management tools. The state of the art hybrid workflow consists of several single independent steps. Today we can find mature powerful tools for each single production step. Developments during the last years where mainly focused to optimise the functionality of these digital photogrammetric exploitation tools. The lack of efficiency in current production environments is mainly based on missing of data management tools, interfacing problems and missing standardization of exchange formats. The success of digital imagery products from satellites has expanded the understanding of the workflow to start already from digital image acquisition. According to this understanding the following paper will describe the fully automated data post-processing steps for Z/I Imaging’s new Digital Modular Camera as an integrated part of a complete digital photogrammetric workflow. Finally it discusses the integration of DMC imagery into the new TerraShare data management environment.