Fledermaus Product Licensing and Features
Fledermaus Feature list | Fledermaus | Fledermaus Offshore | Fledermaus Viewer | Fledermaus Geocoder Toolkit (FMGT) |
Cross-Platform: Windows, Mac & Linux | √ | √ * (intention - however, not yet available for other platforms) | √ | √ |
2D Scene Views | √ | √ | √ | √ |
3D Scene Views | √ | √ | √ | × |
4D Scene Views | √ | √ | × | × |
Scene Composition | √ | √ | × | × |
Surface measurement tools | √ | √ | √ | × |
Create a 3D surface model and multi-variate surfaces from a variety of ungridded and gridded data types | √ | √ | × | × |
3D model object imports | √ | √ | × | × |
Interpolate, mask, crop or resample grids to get the best possible interpretation of the seafloor | √ | √ | × | × |
Import of ancillary data including images, Esri shapefiles, AutoCAD DXF and DWG, points, lines, 3DS models and ENCs (ENC’s FM 7) | √ | √ | × | × |
Drape sidescan mosaics, backscatter, charts, and other imagery onto surfaces | √ | √ | × | × |
Show object and surface change over time using time-stamped data (surface time series) | √ | √ | × | × |
Perform slope, rate of change and surface difference calculations | √ | √ | × | × |
Interactively digitize and label | √ | √ | × | × |
True 3D Mesh technology | √ | √ | × | × |
Eye dome lighting (EDL) for point clouds | √ | √ | × | × |
Real-time tracking of objects (vessels, animals, etc.) via serial cable, UDP packet or logged string* | × | √ | × | × |
Generate and export points, lines polygons, contours, grids in industry-standard formats | √ | √ | × | × |
Create time/space notes for moviemaking and 3D/4D presentations | √ | √ | × | × |
Auto-generated flight paths using the presentation system; output to MPEG movies | √ | √ | × | × |
Produce high-resolution graphics for reports, posters, and publications | √ | √ | × | × |
Create slides directly in scene with easy text/image insertion, and export to the presentation | √ | √ | × | × |
Export Google Earth KML and KMZ files Node-less surface interpretation tools | √ | √ | × | × |
Fledermaus Viewer installer for viewing of Fledermaus *.scene and *.SD files | √ | √ | √ | × |
Backscatter processing of specific frequency | × | × | × | √ |
Multi-spectral backscatter processing | × | × | × | √ |
Grid-based & cluster voxel-based Volumen calculations | √ | √ | × | × |
Scene interpretation tools | √ | √ | × | × |
Support of bathymetric data to improve backscatter footprint results on rough surfaces | × | × | × | √ |
Directory monitoring | × | × | × | √ |
Beam pattern correction | × | × | × | √ |
Cascading backscatter normalization tool | × | × | × | √ |
Intra-vessel backscatter adjustment | × | × | × | √ |
Tiling to support raw large data sets and or high-resolution backscatter mosaics | × | × | × | √ |
Export of (floating point) GeoTiff and SD surfaces | √ | √ | × | √ |
Creation of RGB coloured backscatter imagery | × | × | × | √ |
Export of detailed backscatter statistics information | × | × | × | √ |
Angular Range Analysis results (characterization) | × | × | × | √ |
Synchronized video playback (Full Motion Video) | √ | √ | × | × |
Support for navigation peripherals | √ | √ | × | × |
Pipe and cable route planning* | × | √ | × | × |
Calculate and export fixed pipeline length data files | × | √ | × | × |
Generate and export dynamic long and cross profiles for use in engineering analyses | × | √ | × | × |
Entwine Point Cloud object reading (big data) | √ | √ | × | × |
Dynamic Multilayer profiling | × | √ | × | |
Fledermaus workflow automation using command line tools and popular scripting languages *Limited in FM 8 | √ | √ | × | × |
Seamless workflow with integration to Esri ArcGIS software (Esri ArcGIS installed license required) | Add-on | √ | × | × |
Intuitive and rapid extraction of features from huge multibeam and single-beam water column data files and SBP | Add-on | × | × | × |
Seep Hunter automated algorithm for hydrocarbon and methane seep detection in water column data (or other features if filter settings are known) | Add-on | × | × | × |
WC and SBP data extraction, Interpretation and replay | Add-on | × | × | × |
Dredge Design creations (FM 7) | √ | √ | × | × |
Vertical images displays and creation settings | √ | √ | × | × |
Beam fan time Series creation | √ | √ | × | × |
Image collection (display sync video, scene and merge with vessel) | √ | √ | × | × |
HIPS I/O – Enables reading of Caris HIPS point cloud data | Add-on | × | × | Add-on |