Carmenta Engine 5.17

General

• Software Development Kit (SDK) for rapid development of interactive geographic applications on Windows, Linux and Android.
• High performance visualization and processing of geographic data, both in 2D and 3D.
• Fast 64-bit kernel developed in optimized C++.
• Individually optimized .NET, C++ and Java APIs.
• The .NET API supports both .NET Framework and .NET.
• The Linux and Android SDKs support both x86-64 and ARMv8 64-bit CPUs.
• The Windows and Linux SDKs support cross-platform development (Windows, Linux, Embedded Linux, Android).
• Optimized internally for multi core CPUs.
• Hardware accelerated map rendering that offloads the CPU.
• Parallel asynchronous processing that keeps the user interface responsive.
• Map controls for MAUI, WPF, Xamarin, Windows Forms, Qt, Qt Quick, Win32, MFC, X11, Java and Android.
• Supports over 100 geographic data formats natively.
• Different layers can have different coordinate systems, reprojection is done on the fly.
• Maps can be accessed via remote servers (OGC WMS, WMTS, WCS, WFS and CSW).
• NEW! Browse and access remote map tile collections via the OGC API – Tiles interface.
• Efficient cache mechanism for handling large numbers of moving objects on the map.
• Flexible API for smoothly animating object movements.
• Dedicated radar plot and radar video functionality can handle millions of dynamic plots and be used to create real-time PPI displays.
• Component based architecture built around intuitive data flow paradigm.
• Easy deployment using runtime merge modules (.msm) or simple XCopy deployment.
• Built-in profiler for measuring and tuning the performance of map and application layers.
• Built-in tiled map image file cache, suitable for optimizing vector layers on low-end hardware.
• Integrated read/write support for OGC GeoPackage files enables efficient, single-file geodata distribution.
• Presentation of map layers and application layers can be defined in map configuration files using Carmenta Studio, or in runtime using the APIs.
• Geographically correct spatial calculations such as projection, distance, great circle, scale factors, azimuth/angle calculations etc. available for all reference systems.
• Multiple windows and views can present the same data with different visualizations simultaneously.
• Supports internationalization – titles, descriptions and other metadata can be specified in multiple languages.
• Unicode support for rendering non western right-to-left text, such as Arabic.
• Supports scale-correct, high resolution printing of any map.

Visualization

• Supports custom line styles, pattern fills and textures.
• Predefined common map symbols, line styles and patterns.
• Semitransparency is supported on all drawing operations.
• Hardware accelerated map layer effects can perform color adjustments (brightness, contrast, hue, saturation etc.) as well as glow, halos and ambient occlusion.
• Elements such as scale bars, compasses and north arrows can easily be added to the map.
• Support for animating the visualization, e.g. to create blinking or pulsating objects.
• Anti-aliasing of text, symbols, lines and polygons removes jaggedness in presentation.
• Raster filtering, bilinear or bicubic, improves visualization of scanned maps etc.
• Hardware accelerated configurable multi-sample antialiasing and anisotropic filtering for maximum legibility in 2D and 3D.
• Off-screen drawing to file or memory.
• Raster symbols from common image files.
• Vector symbols from SVG or font files with halo and outline effects.
• 3D symbols and corridors from common 3D shapes or 3D models.
• Multiple visualizations on objects such as multiple texts and symbols at a point or line.
• Complex line styles with auto-placement of symbols or labels along lines or in nodes, texts or symbols that clip lines etc.
• Level of detail in 2D with automatic switching on/off of map layers based on scale and/or geographic area.
• Vector and raster layers can be arbitrarily mixed. Layers can be combined using normal or multiply blend modes.
• Attribute data-controlled visualization, selection and discrimination.
• Automatic label placement of text and symbols that prevents overlapping and duplication.
• Automatic scale-based aggregation of hierarchical data, e.g. tactical ORBAT structures.
• Visualization can be configured to automatically adapt to displays with very high pixel density.
• Supports military tactical symbology (NATO App-6, DOD MIL-STD-2525).
• Supports nautical symbology (IHO S-52, NATO AML Portrayal).
• Supports meteorological visualization (wind barbs, pressure charts etc.)

Extensibility

• Possibility to ”plug-in” custom data reading, processing and visualization code as components that fit seamlessly into the Carmenta Engine data-flow model.
• Custom visualization can be developed either using native GDI or OpenGL or by using Carmenta Engine’s high-level drawing API.
• Custom processing written in Python script can be embedded into map configurations.

Coordinate systems and projections

• Configurable reference systems, projections and geodetic datums, support for EPSG IDs.
• Handles embedded reference system information.
• Supports more than 15 types of projections, including Mercator, Transverse Mercator, UTM, Lambert, Albers, Stereographic, Azimuthal Equidistant and Orthographic.
• Projections for georeferencing using ground control points.

Geographic databases and formats

• Can generate low resolution variants (”pyramids”) for all raster data sources to improve performance.
• Support for spatial database queries.
• Spatial indexing for efficient reading of large datasets.
• Geographic data and other resources can be read directly from zip archives.
• Support for monitoring folders and automatically updating the map when data is added or removed.
• Full-text attribute indexing for fast text search functionality, e.g. address search.
• Supports reading Raster Attribute Tables for thematic data sources.
• Supports reading geospatial metadata according to the French GéoBase Défense and TopoBase Défense standards.
• Efficient conversion of vector data to and from GeoJSON.
• Reads directly (conversion is not needed) from a large number of formats:

• ADGR
• Erdas IMG
• OGC GeoPackage
• AIXM ²
• Erdas LAN/GIS
• OGC KML
• AML ²
• GeoJSON ¹
• OGC WCS
• ARINC 424 ²
• GeoSoft Raster
• OGC WFS
• ASRP
• GeoTIFF ¹
• OGC WMS
• AutoCAD DXF ⁵
• GIF ¹
• OGC WMTS
• AutoCAD DWG ⁵
• GridASCII
• OpenFlight
• AUX
• GPX
• Oracle Spatial ⁵
• BIL, BSQ, BSP
• HDR
• PNG ¹
• Bing Maps
• IHO S-57 ^2,3
• PolGASP
• BSB Nautical
• IHO S-63 ^2,3
• PostGIS ⁵
• BMP ¹
• Intergraph raster
• Raw
• CADRG
• Japanese DEM
• RPF
• CEOS (Spot)
• JPEG (.jpg) ¹
• SDTS DEM
• CIB
• JPEG2000 (.jp2)
• SQL Server ⁵
• C-MAP CM93 ^3,4,5
• Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT)
• SRTM HGT
• CMRG (PCMap)
• MapInfo TAB
• TIFF ¹
• COLLADA
• MapInfo MIF
• Tile Servers
• DEM
• MBTiles
• USGS ASCII
• DFAD
• MFF
• USGS DOQ
• DTED
• MrSID ⁵
• USRP
• ECW
• MySQL ⁵
• VTP BT elevation
• Envisat N1
• NITF
• VPF ²
• ESRI Shape (.shp) ^1,2
• NOAA
• VMAP ²
• ESRI Binary ADF
• OGC API – Tiles
• VVOD ²
• ESRI ASCII Grid
• OGC 3D Tiles
• WVS ²
• ESRI File Geodatabase
• OGC CSW
• WMO GRIB

1. Reads and writes
2. Uses spatial indexing for fast access of large files
3. With optional IHO S-52 nautical chart presentation
4. Not available in Carmenta Engine Linux version
5. Not available in Carmenta Engine for Android

Interaction

• Flexible API for querying geographic objects on screen.
• High-level interaction tool interface that developers may use to ”plug in” their own interaction handling.
• Separate visualization can be configured for selected and hovered map objects.
• Tools for navigating 2D and 3D maps.
• Tools for creating and editing 2D and 3D points, lines and polygons.
• Tools for creating and editing circles, ellipses, circle sectors, rings etc.
• Tools for multi-touch interactions such as pinch-to-zoom and twist-to-rotate.
• Overview window functionality.

Data processing “On the fly”

• Buffer zone generation for raster data and vector data.
• Clipping of geographic points, lines, polygons and meshes by geographic polygons or viewing area.
• Connection / desegmentation of lines and polygons.
• Data reduction through line and polygon ”thinning”.
• Geographic, UTM/MGRS and GARS grid generation.
• Generate circle and ellipse objects from point + radius.
• Generate concentric range circles and radial lines around objects or at the center of the map.
• Generate 3D volumes (e.g. boxes, spheres and pipes) from 2D objects.
• Hill shading with dynamic sun position.
• Slope and aspect calculations.
• Detection of ridges, valleys, peaks and basins.
• Isoline, e.g. elevation contours calculation.
• Real time line-of-sight calculation in both 2D maps and 3D city environments.
• Rapid calculation of visibility of defined target areas from one or more observation areas.
• Volumetric line-of-sight with multi-sensor airspace coverage analysis.
• Support for custom propagation models, e.g. radio propagation, in the line-of-sight calculation.
• Merging heterogeneous raster data with different resolutions into homogeneous data.
• Rasterization of 2D vector layers.
• Reprojection of vector and raster data.
• Resampling of raster data.
• Accessibility analysis and routing calculations for terrain vehicles.
• Nap-of-the-earth routing calculations for rotary-wing aircrafts, e.g. drones.
• Transformation of line objects to polygons and vice versa.
• Smoothing of line and polygon shapes.
• Vertical profile calculation which can cut through both terrain, land use and vector data.
• Vertical clearance and terrain warning calculation for flight routes based on terrain and vector obstacles.
• Projection of drone full motion video onto the ground or onto detailed 3D environments based on camera parameters.
• NEW! On-the-fly generation of image mosaics from drone full motion video streams.
• Dynamic generation of point density rasters for heat map presentation.

Software development kit contents

• Carmenta Studio – a visual editor for map configurations.
• Carmenta Explorer – a map configuration viewer.
• NEW! Carmenta Tile Engine – a tile server that supports the OGC API – Tiles interface.
• Comprehensive documentation, including tutorials, technical articles and API documentation.
• Many sample applications with source code in C# for Windows Forms, WPF, MAUI and Xamarin, C++ for Qt, MFC, Win32 and X11 as well as Java for Swing and Android.
• Sample maps and map configurations.

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System Requirements

Carmenta Engine 5.17

Carmenta Engine for Windows

Operating Systems:

• Windows 10, 64-bit
• Windows 11

Graphics device requirements for hardware acceleration:

• Using OpenGL rendering requires a device supporting OpenGL 3.0.
• Using DirectX rendering requires a device supporting DirectX 11.

Language and framework requirements:

• .NET API: NET 6.0 or later, or .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later. The .NET MAUI map control requires .NET 8.0 or later.
• Java API: Java 11 or later.
• C++ API: Visual Studio 2019 or later. When using Qt or QT Quick, Qt version 5.15 or later should be used.

Integrated Development Environments:

• Support is provided for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and 2022 (C++ and C#).
• Other C++ IDEs that use the Microsoft C++ compiler (MSVC) can also be used.
• Java developers can use NetBeans or Eclipse.

Carmenta Engine on Linux

Operating Systems:

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9.
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4.
• On Linux x86-64 and ARMv8 compatible 64-bit CPUs are supported.

Graphics device requirements for hardware acceleration:

• Using OpenGL rendering requires a device supporting OpenGL 3.0 and EGL 1.4.
• When using OpenGL ES on Linux, the device needs to support OpenGL ES 3.0 or later.

Language requirements:

• Java API: Java 11 or later.
• C++ API: GCC 7.5 or later.
• When using Qt or Qt Quick, Qt version 5.15 or later should be used.
• .NET API: .NET 6.0 or later.

Carmenta Engine on Android

Supported Devices:

• Android devices running Android version 9.0 or above and have an ARMv8 compatible 64-bit CPU or an x86-64 compatible 64-bit CPU.

Graphics device requirements for hardware acceleration:

• Using OpenGL rendering requires a device with full support for OpenGL ES 3.0. Carmenta Support can provide an up-to-date list of Android devices which have been tested and verified to work well.

Integrated Development Environments:

• Support is provided for Android Studio for Java projects and Visual Studio 2022 or later for .NET projects.

Language and framework requirements Java API:

• Java 11 or later.
• C++ API: NDK r23 or later.
• When using Qt Quick, Qt version 6.2 or later should be used.
• .NET API: .NET 6.0 or later.

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