The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
(Alan Kay *1940)
Tama Group wishes you a Merry Christmas and relaxing holidays and is looking forward to a good and sucessfull cooperation next year.
(Edited December 2018)
Tama Group at Trimble Wedge User Days 2018 in Munich
On November 22. and 23. Trimble organizes Wedge User Days 2018 in Munich with reports and examples by users of various industries. Conference language is Englsh.
On Friday, 23. 11., Ralph Humberg (CEO Tama Group) will talk about his experiences in process data intelligence and using eCognition to even optimize the results.
Tama Group at Trimble Dimensions, November 5 – 7, 2018 | The Venetian – Las Vegas, Nevada
Current and high-quality information about the status of building roofs & facades are essential for driving maintenance and operational cost for these buildings down. This session covers how Trimble eCognition technology was applied for a big Real Estate & Facility Management Provider in Germany to assist them in broadening their building maintenance services offerings. We introduce how adverse changes in building facades, such as cracks and permanent dirt can be quickly mapped. We also introduce how this approach helps municipalities in Northern Europe to identify illegal building changes quickly. We conclude the session with an evaluation of achieved accuracies and changes to existing workflows.
Key Objectives
1) Identify how data quality and photogrammetric processing influence ambiguity
2) Compare the aerial/UAV measurement approach with classic methods
3) Calculate the potential benefits of this new methodology
You can have a look at the Catalog and lock in to my session here.
Looking forward to seeing you.
(Edited October 2018)
Tama Group on INTERGEO 2018 in Frankfurt, October 15 -18
Current and high-quality information about the status of building roofs & facades are essential for driving maintenance and operational cost for these buildings down. Visit us on Trimble Booth (Hall: 12.0, Booth: 12.0D.02) to learn how Tama Group uses Trimble eCognition technology to assist service providers in broadening their building maintenance services offerings.
(Edited September 2018)
Thanks for all the interesting talks on Interforst 2018
We are happy our new product concepts Tama #402.PortfolioMaps and Tama #402.StressMaps found so much interest in forestry and will consider all of the input in our further product development.
Shortly you will find further information about our new products on our website.
(Edited August 2018)
On August 22, 2018 8:00 – 09:00 TM, Trimble Geospatial Webinar: eCognition Essentials for Beginners
Trimble’s eCognition Essentials software is an all-in-one solution that allows users of any skill level to quickly produce high-quality, GIS-ready deliverables from satellite imagery. This webinar will walk attendees through data processing in eCognition Essentials.
Topoics covered include:
- Image segmentation
- Classification, class descriptions and knowledge-based classification algorithms
- Object refinement and optimization
- Exporting to GIS
(Edited August 2018)
Tama Group presents two pilot solutions for forestry on Interforst 2018 from July 18 – 22 in Munich
Tama Group introduces two innovativ product concepts to extend our offers of highly automated information extraction in specific requirements of forestry. On Interforst 2018, four-yearly International Key Trade Fair for forestry, we offer members of the industry an opportunity to get a first impression on our innovations.
We introduce Tama #402.PortfolioMaps, a product for highly automated tree counting and tree detection and present Tama #402.StressMaps, our pipeline product for generating actual stress maps. Both products take use of systematic combination of various image data and highy automated information extraction. StressMaps is specifically desgned for small and medium forest enterprises.
Find us on booth 332 in hall B6 on Interforst 2018.
Shortly you will find further information about our new products on our website.
(Edited July 2018)
On June 18, 2018, Trimble releases eCognition 9.3.2
Version 9.3.2 is a maintenance update which improves operability and provides bug fixes for several algorithms, furthermore, it now supports the latest Windows 10 updates.
For more information click here.
(Edited June 2018)
On June 13, 2018, 8am MT, Trimble Geospatial offers a Webinar: Starting Point – eCognition for Beginners
Topics Covered Include
- Image segmentation
- Classification, class descriptions and knowledge-based classification algorithms
- Object refinement and optimization
- Exporting to GIS
(Edited June 2018)
On Thursday, May 17 2018, thought leaders, practitioners and the brightest minds in AI gathered in Munich for the Meetup „M-AI Summit“.
Ralph Humberg (CEO Tama Group) joined and presented the Tama Group perspective ‚Why choose between expert knowledge, machine learning and deep learning?‘
Klick here to get a first impression of this fabulous event.
(Edited June 2018)
Tama Group eCognition User-Conference 2018
“Agile Information Creation with eCognition” 
This is the motto for our German-speaking Tama Group eCognition User-Conference on June 20 in Munich.
We look forward to welcoming Gunter Schreier, DLR as our keynote speaker. He will talk about „Opportunities and challenges for Earth Observation by new Information technologies”.
For more Information and registration please have a look at our German Website.
(Edited May 2018)
On May 16 2018, 8am MT, Trimble Geospatial offers a Webinar on OBIA Point Cloud Analytics.
Topics Covered Include
New point cloud features in eCognition Developer 9.3.1
Data fusion – image object features to point clouds
Creating Rule Set to edit point cloud colorization values
(Edited May 2018)
Detection of waste density out of VHR-Satelite-Data
Seas and oceans of the world are more and more exposed to flotsam in form of litter and waste. There are a kind of hotspots where such flotsam is washed back onto the shore and accumulates to mountains of rubbish. Using high resolution satellite data (GSD ~ 30cm) you can detect such hotspots of waste accumulation.
Tama Group introduces a monitoring service to provide information about the potential density oft the accumulations in the respective beach section. The satellite images are analyzed according to specific criteria and examined for certain items characterized for example by texture, color differences to their surrounding and spatial references.
Feel free to contact us for more informaton
(Published February 2018)
Information extraction from LiDAR and RGB Data
Mapping cities is deemed to be one of the most challenging tasks in the automated analysis of image data, as urban areas are composed of highly complex spatial and spectral structures. The extraction of up-to-date land cover and land use information for large urban areas requires high spatial resolution imagery and data of different types and enables a detailed and cost-efficient mapping basis for an optimized management of cities. In this context, the eCognition software provides an excellent basis for the comprehensive analysis of different data, making use of a variety of implemented methods.
Tama Group presents an application for detailed extraction of certain features by synergistic analysis of optical imagery and LiDAR data.
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(Published October 2017)
City signature based on LiDAR Data
Aerial point clouds recorded by LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) sensors provide valuable information about the earth’s surface, including the signature of cities. Frequently, LiDAR data are analyzed in combination with optical imagery in order to perform precise city mapping. For various reasons of data limitation this isn’t always possible.
Tama Group offers an application for extraction of objects in a city, based solely on laser scanning point clouds.
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(Published October 2017)
Automatic City Mapping
For every aerial imaging service provider, detailed city mapping based on high-resolution imagery may become a very tedious task if image analytics are not highly automated. In such cases, the sheer number of visible objects to be mapped may become enormous.
Tama Group now offers a structured methodology for aerial imagery service providers to increase the level of automation for city mapping projects.
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(Published October 2017)
Tama Group on WorldView Global Alliance User Conference 2017 – October 09 – 11 in Munich
On this year’s WorldView Global Alliance User Conference 2017 in Munic Ralph Humberg (CEO Tama Group) will be on the speaker’s list. In the session “User Cases / Technology and Automation” – on Tuesday, 10-10, 11.50 – 12.35 – Ralph will give a short insight into the processes and benefits of automated information extraction. With examples of forestry and maritime use cases Ralph will demonstrate benefits for the users of innovative processing.
(Published September 2017)
Tama Group’s eCognition online conference on our YouTube Channel now
If you couldn’t join our Tama Group eCognition online conference in June 2017, you may now watch it on our Tama Group You Tube Channel.
Keith Peterson (Trimble) talks about “Trimble eCognition: poduct highlight and preview”. Dirk Tiede (Z_GIS) gives some examples of “Automated extraction of geospatial information in crisis situations”. And Michael Voltersen (Tama Group) shows “Automated analysis of UAV imagery and GoPro images”.
Feel welcome to share our Tama Group eCognition online conference held in June 2017 on our You Tube Channel now.
(Published August 2017)
Tama Basic Process
Five steps to success: Tama basic process describes the basic workflow of image analysis with eCognition. Information extraction from imagery is a complex process which may be steered in the intended direction by sequencing a basic action pattern. Tama Basic Process gives you a first insight into the process flow.
Furthermore you find a selection of sources of information about eCognition Software to assist you in kick-starting with eCognition or provides tips for specific topics and appllications.
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(Published August 2017)
The Presentations of Tama Group eCognition User Conference 2017 – online now
On June 21. we welcomed the participants of the Tama Group eCognition User Conference in Munic. According to the theme “Big Data Analytik with eCognition” experiences and approaches in dealing with production data were presented and dicussed by and with users and new image analysis-methods for innovative sensors were introduced.
To share all those interessting aspects and impulses with those who couldn’t join our conference, we put the presentations on our YouTube Channel Tama Group.
We are looking forward to new interesting and exciting presentations on our next Tama Group eCogntion User Meeting.
(Published July 2017)
Automated road signs – mapping based on digital photos
Knowing about the exact definition and location of road signs is of significant importance for cities and road traffic departments.
Tama Group provides an application that processes automatically photos taken by digital cameras. The application doesn’t only succeed in recognizing and classifying the road signs geometrically and spectral, but reaches as far as cataloging the road signs by enclosing the correct signification numbers.
To ensure the processing of high amounts of data the software provides the opportunity to pass of parallel on several servers. There are almost no limits regarding the scalability of this server-based processing.
Contact us for further information.
(Published May 2017)
Information extraction from ground penetrating radar systems
The deployment of ground-penetrating radar systems has been growing over the last years. Using this technique, the shallow underground can be investigated without any mechanical excavation to detect any anomaly or to investigate the condition of subsurface elements. With the proviso not to disturb existing infrastructure, efficiently looking into its nearby underground is of special importance.
In order to process the GPR data the Tama Group provides an application that enables a fast and efficient information extraction for the user. The images are analyzed according to certain user-driven criteria and with the objective to extract distinct objects.
Contact us for further information.
(Published May 2017)
Estimation of car-density in city districts
The knowledge of actual car-density of certain districts is of high interest for many commercial, administrative but also humanitarian questions. The Tama Group has built an application to extract this information out of high resolution satellite image data. For an answer you get a clear and comprehensible statement about the density pattern in the respective city district.
Based on high degrees of automation and accuracy achieved, the Tama Group is able to answer a lot of commercial, administrative and humanitarian questions by her ways and methodes of automated information extraction.
Contact us for further information.
(Published April 2017)
Automatic measurement of canopy density
Automatic image analysis provides many opportunities of detecting snapshots for specific features and thus represents developments and time processes in time series analyses. Forestry uses this for example in measurement of canopy density to get reliable and verifiable values about the actual state and the growth of the forest.
Contact us for further information.
(Published April 2017)
Optimization with drones
Smart farming and precision agriculture are the actual keywords in acriculture. The increasing use of drones and other sensores enables us to get easy access to individual relevant information for the cultivation of specific fields. Tama Group and GerMAP introduce new applications to enable users to extract exactly this part of information, which is actually the most valuable in a smooth and interactive way.
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(Published April 2017)
Training and Coaching
We put together an extensive programm for training and coaching eCognition users to pick them up where they stand. Newcomers, „connecting passengers“ as well as advanced users may benefit from our offer and optimize their use of eCognition.
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(Published September 2016 )