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RELEASE OF TNT PRODUCTS 2005:71 Table of Contents Introduction 7 Editorial and Associated News [by Dr. Lee D. Miller, President] 11 Keeping Your Tools Sharp. 11 Dispelling Popular Myths. 12 TNT Explorer. 20 Introducing Advanced Techniques. 22 Changes to TNT Licenses 24 Immediate Access to DV2005:72. 24 New Multi-Core Licensing. 25 Fixed Licenses. 25 Floating Licenses. 25 Summary. 26 Windows 98, ME, and NT 26 Mac OS X 26 Versions Supported. 26 Complete 64-bit Support. 26 MrSID Support. 26 Installation. 26 Mac OS X Geology Workstation. 27 Stereo Without Glasses. 27 New TNT Version Numbering 27 Hardware News 28 Dual Monitors. 28 Microsoft Magnifying Mouse. 28 Apple Mighty Mouse. 29 External Storage. 29 TNTtalk Discussion Group 31 Land Viewer 31 TNTserver™ 2005:71 34 Background. 35 Open Geospatial Consortium Features. 36 Installing a TNTserver. 41 Managing a TNTserver. 44 Summary: Selecting a Geodata Server. 51 Prices. 52 TNTclient/TNTbrowser 2005:71 54 Introducing TNTmap™ 2005:71 54 OGC Compliant Clients. 54 TNTatlas 2005:71 for X 63 TNTfreeview. 63 Land Viewer. 64 Access Via a Web Map Service. 65 MICROIMAGES MEMO 3 15 JUNE 2005 RELEASE OF TNT PRODUCTS 2005:71 Inherited New Features. 65 TNTsim3D™ for Windows 66 Simulations with Manifolds. 66 Simulations in Stereo. 67 Smoothing Recorded Flight Paths. 68 Recording a Movie. 68 Custom Views. 69 Custom Help Dialogs. 69 Special Geospatial Scripting Features. 69 TNTview® 2005:71 70 Inherited New Features. 70 Upgrading TNTview. 72 TNTedit™ 2005:71 73 Inherited New Features. 73 Upgrading TNTedit. 74 Tutorial and Reference Materials 75 Tutorials. 75 New Booklets Available. 75 Revised Tutorials with Major Changes. 76 FAQs by Jack™. 76 Quick Guides. 77 New TNTmips 2005:71 Features 78 System Level Changes. 78 2D Display. 99 * 3D Display. 108 Georeferencing. 117 Raster Extract. 118 Raster Resample and Reproject. 118 Predefined Raster Combinations. 118 Raster Mosaic. 119 Import/Export. 127 Map Calculator. 137 Spatial Data Editor. 137 Render to SVG. 138 Calibration and Quantitative Use of Multispectral Satellite Images. 138 Geospatial Scripting Language (SML). 148 Upgrading TNTmips. 155 Promotional 155 Urban Studies. 155 Internationalization and Localization 155 New MicroImages Authorized Resellers 156 EGYPT. 156 GREECE. 156 MEXICO. 156 MICROIMAGES MEMO 4 15 JUNE 2005 RELEASE OF TNT PRODUCTS 2005:71 Discontinued Resellers 156 Bolivia. 157 Chile. 157 Bosnia and Herzegovina. 157 France. 157 Appendix: Abbreviations 157 Attached Color Plates Mac OS X: Geologic Mapping Station Mac OS X: Mac Stereo Viewing with the Sharp 3D Monitor TNTatlas: Nebraska Land Viewer Atlas TNTserver: Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Specifications (2-sided) TNTserver: Configuration (1/2 page) TNTserver: Managing General Controls (1/2 page) TNTserver: Managing Image Properties TNTserver: Managing Logging (1/2 page) TNTserver: Managing Site Logo (1/2 page) TNTserver: Managing Web Access (1/2 page) TNTserver: Managing Administrator Contact (1/2 page) TNTserver: Managing ID Titling (1/2 page) TNTserver: Managing Directories (1/2 page) TNTserver: Managing System Parameters TNTmap: Browsing and Selecting WMS Layers TNTmap: Viewing WMS Layers TNTmap: Using Google Earth as a Client TNTserver: Using a Third-Party WMS Client TNTsim3D: Manifolds TNTsim3D: Stereo Viewing TNTsim3D: Smoothing Flight Paths (2-sided) TNTsim3D: Making Movies (2-sided) TNTsim3D: Custom Views from any Angle/Position System: Direct Use of CAD Files (DWG, DXF, DGN, TAB) System: Resolving Auto-Link Issues System: AutoOpen External Spatial Data Files (2-sided) TNTexplorer: Introduction to Project File Folders TNTexplorer: Left Button Operations in a Folder TNTexplorer: Right Button Features in a Folder Miscellaneous: Managing Raster Null Cells Style Editor: Embedded vs Linked Style Objects (1/2 page) Theme Mapping: Embedded vs Linked Style Objects (1/2 page) System: Orthographic Projection for Global Views (2-sided) Spatial Display: Raster Layer Caching Spatial Display: Geometric Layer Caching Spatial Display: Automatic Highlighting of Vector Elements Spatial Display: Subtle Display Hints in LegendView Spatial Display: Merging LegendView Entries MICROIMAGES MEMO 5 15 JUNE 2005 RELEASE OF TNT PRODUCTS 2005:71 Spatial Display: Improving Line Intersections (1/2 page) Spatial Display: Partially Transparent Symbols (1/2 page) GeoToolbox: Show/Hide Areas of Interest 3D Display: Faster Display with Stored Terrain Properties 3D Display: Control Accuracy of Terrain Rendering 3D Display: Perspective Rendering of Geometric Layers 3D Display: Use LegendView to Toggle Layers 3D Display: Polygon Styling Options 3D Display: Drape Labels over Terrain 3D Display: Render 3D Elements as 3D Shapes 3D Display: Stereo Viewing on the Sharp 3D Monitor Mosaic: JPEG Directly to JPEG2000 Mosaic: MrSID Directly to JPEG2000 Export: Creating MrSID Files Import: Selecting File First Import: Selecting Format First Export: Creating External Files Export: Rasters for Google Earth Import: Duplicate Microsoft Access Relationships Scripts by Jack™: Workflow: Calibrating/Analyzing Multispectral Images Scripts by Jack™: Calibrating Multispectral Satellite Images Scripts by Jack™: Calibrate Satellite Images to Surface Reflectance Scripts by Jack™: Correct for Terrain Induced Radiance Effects Scripts by Jack™: Mapping Dense Vegetation and Bare Soils Scripts by Jack™: Mapping Vegetation/Soil Biophysical Properties Scripts by Jack™: Generalized Mapping of Biophysical Properties Scripts by Jack™: Color-Enhance Satellite Images of Coastal Areas Sample Tool Script: Control Display by Area of Interest (2-sided) Sample Tool Script: Draw into CAD Object in a Script (2-sided) Sample Tool Script: Measure Strike/Dip of Geologic Features (2-sided) Sample Geospatial Script: Patch Holes in SRTM DEMs (2-sided) Urban Studies: Slope Analysis Urban Studies: Site Selection Analysis Urban Studies: Watershed Analysis MICROIMAGES MEMO 6 15 JUNE 2005 RELEASE OF TNT PRODUCTS 2005:71 Introduction MicroImages in its 19th year in business is pleased to distribute 2005:71 of the TNT products. This is the 56th release of TNTmips and adds approximately 164 new fea- tures submitted by clients and MicroImages. The version numbering for the TNT prod- ucts has been changed to reflect the year:version (for example, 2005:71) of the TNT product you are operating. This follows the trend in software industry (for example, AutoCAD 2005, SQL Server 2003, and so on.). Thus your V7.1 has become 2005:71 and the next release will be 2005:72 or 2006:72 depending upon the day of its release via microimages.com. Previous versions are similarly renamed 1986:09, … 2003:68, 2003:69, and 2004:70. The actual release date of and this revised designation for every previous version number of a TNT product can be found at www.microimages. com/relnotes/. What follows is a brief summary of many of the significant new capabilities in 2005:71 of the TNT products. • Mac OS X: Installation now uses the frequently encountered commercial Installer VISE program. • TNTsim3D: Planar, folded, or curvilinear manifold surfaces designed and viewed in TNTmips can be used in a simulation with or without a terrain surface. Fly around or through raster or vector features projected onto these manifolds to better visualize their 3D structure and its relationship to the topography and other surface features. Any view in any simulation can be switched to stereo using almost any viewing device (choose line or column interleaved or anaglyph). Recorded flight paths can be smoothed and played back to create a movie. Custom views can be created for any viewpoint but are slaved to the changes in the Main view (for ex- ample, centered on the same terrain position). Custom help and other metadata can be displayed in a new window. • TNTatlas: A DVD entitled Land Viewer: Nebraska Statewide is provided to dem- onstrate how to distribute a 1-terabyte color, 1-meter orthoimage of a large area (the State of Nebraska) as a JPEG2000 200:1 lossy compressed atlas. A Tool Script is provided to illustrate how to zoom directly to a view of a farm or ranch, city, county, or Natural Resource District of interest in this TNTatlas. • TNTfreeview: TNTatlas can now be easily used as a free viewer while still provid- ing all its interactive tools. No need to learn how to startup and load a layer in TNTatlas. Simply click on any directly supported spatial data file (MrSID, JP2, JPEG, DWG, DXF, DGN, shapefile, a TNT layout, …) of any size and it will open TNTatlas with a view of it. • TNTserver: Publish any composite atlas view or its individual layers over the Internet or intranet using this OGC complaint Web Map Service. Combine atlas content being hosted with images from other sites publishing their geodata via a Web Map Service. Use these results as custom layers in Google Earth. Installa- tion and patching now use the Install Shield process as the other TNT products. A new TNT server Manager program is included for easier setup, management, and optimization of the operation of TNTserver. • TNTmap: This is a new, free, open source, HTML-based client application to lo- cate and select layers from any Web Map Service, including TNTserver, and com- posite these images into a view of the area of interest. It can also start Google MICROIMAGES MEMO 7 15 JUNE 2005 RELEASE OF TNT PRODUCTS 2005:71 Earth and overlay these results or save them locally as a raster for use as a layer in NASA’s World Wind. • Linking to CAD Files: Direct links can now be made to AutoCAD DWG and DXF files and MicroStation DGN files by selecting them with the mouse or from within a process via the TNT Select Object dialog. ISO Coordinate Reference Systems can be identified and added to their links. After a few seconds to build the link, they behave as TNT CAD objects for any further processing. • Starting from Data: Use a mouse click on a DWG, DXF, DGN, TAB, MrSID, JPEG, JP2, PNG, TIFF, ECW, and so on including an object, group, or complete map layout in a Project File to start your TNT product and view the file as geodata.