Tama Group eCognition User Conference 2022 – 29. Juni 2022 in Gräfelfing, Munich

In remote sensing, too, the ‘cloud’ is increasingly becoming the central location for storing and processing geodata. We want to shed light on this topic in this year’s User Conference in connection with eCognition. We approach our topic “eCogntion – Up to the Cloud?” with keynote speeches from three different perspectives. We continue with an international panel to discuss methods and applications. Here, too, we cover a wide range and show examples of eCognition use.

We look forward to you discussing all these exiting topics with us. There will be a mix of presentations in german and english language.

Participation in our eCognition User Conference is free of charge. If personal participation is not possible, we also offer the possibility to participate live via video conference. For more information and registration click here.

“eCognition – Up to the Cloud?”

(Edited June 2022)

Hear about  Tama WaldCursor on EODC Forum 2022 – June 15, 2022

WaldCursor, developed by Tama Group with support of ESA, is a forest portal for everyone involved in forestry – with geocoded forest management and a powerful remote sensing module. The satellite imagery and data used for WaldCursor  are processed, analyzed and stored in EODC.

On this years EODC Forum Ralph Humberg (CEO Tama Group) will give insights into development and operations of the forestry portal WaldCursor deploying EODC .

More info about the hybrid conference on Wednesday, June 15th 2022 in Vienna:

EODC Forum

(Edited May 2022)

January 11, 10:00 a.m., Webinar: Tips & Tricks on eCognition 10.2

Our (German language) Webinar offering tips & tricks for the highlights of eCognition 10.2 will also inform you about the current situation with eCognition 10.2 and the ‚Log4j – Problem‘ which became known by the end of the year. We explain the different solution options.

Furthermore, Fritjof Lüthje and Michael Voltersen will give insights and offer tips & tricks for the  highlights of eCognition 10.2:

• Improved Native Vector Handling
• Automated Accuracy Assessment
• Deep Learning for Native Point Clouds
• Expanded Integration of Deep Learning Models

Regristration for the Webinar on Tuesday, January 11, 10:00 a.m. [webba_booking]

(Edited January 2022)

eCognition 10.2 – Release December 2021

Trimble has just released eCognition 10.2 to download for all 10.1 users.

There are many highlights in the new version such as Deep Learning for LiDAR Point Clouds and much more. Click here for a short ‘Highlight-Review’.

On January, 11, we will provide Tipps & Tricks for eCognition 10.2 in a (German) webinar. Click here to register for our webinar.

(Edited December 2021)

WaldCursor – Launch of pilot phase in November 2021

Supported by an ESA – Project we developed the WaldCursor.

Our app- and cloud based digital assistent for forestry creates an easy access to the many oppotunities of remote sensing for forestry. Information from satellite and drone images enables forestry with both, timely and targeted actions as well as well-founded planning decisions. On November 8, the WaldCursor launched the pilot phase. Click here for more German information about the WaldCursor.

(Edited November 2021)

October 19 – Tama Group eCognition Training Day

On October 19th we offer an eCogntion Training Day with two training blocks: onsite, face-to-face in our Training Center in Gräfelfing / Munich or Online Training.  

• RuleSet Expertise   
• Customized Algorithms,  
• Variablen & Loops
• LiDAR Pointclouds,  
• CNNs

This is just a selection of the points  we fokus on. For more information have a look here.

(Edited September 2021)

October 20 – Tama Group eCognition User Conference

„Remote Sensing – Ever Closer“ – The theme of this years Tama Group eCogntionen User Conference.

This years conference will take place on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. We are planning a hybrid form. We are happy to welcome participants to our premises in Graefelfing near Munich with an adapted hygiene concept. Everyone who can’t join us on the spot will be able to join the conference in an online live stream. For further information hava a look here.

(Edited September 2021)

Meet us @ Intergeo 2021 in Hannover September 21 – 23 and find our  Special On Drone Data Evaluation

You will find us at the Trimble booth – Hall 20, Booth 20A.02. Have a look at our AI-based methods for automatic evaluation of drone images.

• For drone service providers developing their own data processing
• For professionell users aiming to insert already developed and tested evaluation moduls into their technical processes
• For technical service providers only occasionally working with drones and wanting to use the simplicity of our Tama Drone-Terminal

The technological heart of all three processes is Trimble eCognition software equipped with appropriate extensions by Tama Group.

Meet us on site on Intergeo 2021. We are looking forward to welcoming you in person again this week in Hannover from September 21 to 23.

(Edited September 2021)

Tama Group on site at Intergeo 2021

This year Intergeo will be on show live in Hannover September, 21 – 23 as well as at the same time digitally on the Web. You may meet Tama Group both  live and on site at the Trimble booth – Hall 20, Booth 20A.02 –  and online.

We will offer a Special on drone data evaluation on Intergeo 2021. In addition to our eCognition-based remote sensing and information factory solutions for satellite and aerial image data, we will be presenting three AI-based methods for the automatic evaluation of drone images. More Information will follow shortly.

We look forward to meeting you at Intergeo 2021.

(Edited August 2021)

Webinars on eCognition 10.1

We take the innovations and improvement in eCogntion 10.1 as a welcome occasion for our webinar „Was ist neu in eCognition“ on Tuesday, June 22, 2021 10:00 am – 10:45 am.

In our German webinar we will provide practical tips on

• ingesting externally trained TensorFlow models into your ruleware
• using the innovative raster calcutlation: hillshade, ridge filter and majority filters 
• and other exciting new features and improvements

Use this tool for registration to our webinar.

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Trimble offers an English introdcution to the new version on Monday, June 14, 08:00 am . Click here to find the registration “Welcome to eCognition 10.1”

(Edited June 2021)

eCognition 10.1

Trimble has just released eCognition 10.1. to download for all 10.0 users.

In the new version, the analysis options with CNNs in eCognition have been significantly expanded. You may now ingest externally trained TensorFlow models into your ruleware. Look here for further new capabilities to make a real difference and find a tip for smooth upgrading.

(Edited May 2021)

Save the Date

This year’s Tama Group eCognition user conference will take place on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. We are planning a hybrid form. We are happy to welcome participants to our premises in Graefelfing near Munich with an adapted hygiene concept. Everyone who can’t join us on the spot will be able to join the conference in an online live stream.

On Tuesday, October 19, 2021, we will offer two eCognition training blocks, one topic block as face-to-face training in Graefelfing and a second one as online training.

More information about the conference and the training blocks will be available soon. For now: Save the Date.

(Edited May 2021)

First-ever high-resolution maps of coral reefs and other marine habitats online

Tama Group and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) developed a fully-automated method and workflow to create an accurate and comprehensive map of marine habitats for the Caribbean Basin. The finalized maps are now available at CaribbeanMarineMaps.tnc.org. They form an unprecedented basis for monitoring the impacts of climate change, sustainable exploitation and protection of marine ressources.

Have a look for more information.

(Edited February 2021)

Four Videos of our tutorial-series on ‚eCognition Licensing‘ online now

Have a look at our Tama Group Channel on YouTube to find our German tutorials on License Activation, License Server Set Up, License Borrowing and Using of Developter & Server License. As we guide you onscreen step by step through all features, our tutorials should be useful to you, even if you are not fluent in German.

(Edited December 2020)

Have look on the paper on „UAS Imagery-Based Mapping of CoarseWood Debris in a Natural Deciduous Forest in Central Germany (Hainich National Park)“

On our conference in September Christian Thiel told us about „UAS imagery based mapping of dea wood in Natural Decidous Forests in Central Germany“. To look for more detailled information on this topic you can get access to the article in ‚Remote Sensing‘ 2020/12 here. The authors of the study provide profound insights in methods, background and results.

Let’s talk on Intergeo Digital 2020

Meet us on Intergeo Digital 2020. Even if we can not talk face-to-face on this Intergeo we look forward to meeting you digital and talk with you about the possibilities and opportunities of eCognition. We provide a first glimpse of what is possible with the software to automate geospatial data analytics and give you a first check to find out where an how to use eCognition for your benefits. 

You will find us at the Trimble booth – Let’s talk. 

eCognition 10 will be available soon – pre-view of the new version in next weeks Tama Group eCognition user conference – online, on Tuesday September 22

On our conference Keith Peterson, Trimble, will provide a pre-view on the new version and give some first insights on what is new and what is possible. The conference itself is in German language but Keith’s slides will be in English and we think he will be happy to provide key statements in English as well if you are in the call, a moderated chat will be open for questions.
The event is free of charge but you need to register on our website

(Edited September 2020)

All shelves in our Media Centre on our website are filled now

In one shelve you will find our Tama Group Newsletters, the next one will present you AppNotes with more detailled information about the topics of our Information Factories. Under ‚Publications‘ you can find a selection of publications by and about  us and the last shelve is filled with  our videos – tutorials, webinars, interviews and more.

Have a look, we continually update our Media Centre.

(Edited September 2020)

Call for Speakers for Tama Group eCognition User and Developer (Online) Conference on September 22^nd

Only three slots left for user lectures on our conference with impulse, partner and user lectures on September 22, 2020. For more information click here.

(Edited July 2020)

First three shelves of Tama Group Media Centre on our website are filled

On the shelves you will find our previously published newsletters, a collection of AppNotes with more detailed information about our Information Factories and a selection of publications by and about us. We will soon fill the other shelves of our Media Centre for you. Take a look, you can download the documents as a PDF and we will continuously maintain and expand our inventory. 

(Edited July 2020)

September 22-24: Tama Group eCognition User and Developer Conference 2020

Regarding the current ‘Corona Situation’ we have adapted the concept for our annual ‘Tama Group eCognition User and Developer Conference’ and meet at an online conference day on September 22^nd. The online conference day is followed by two training days with Developer Forums and Training Blocks on September 23rd and 24^th in the Tama Group’s training center at Gräfelfing, near Munich.

This way, we offer eCognition users an opportunity to exchange ideas with other users, developers and eCognition-professionals and experts on three days in September even under the current conditions.

For more information about our conference please click here.

(Edited July 2020)

eCognition training live and on site with up to five participants

In our training room in Graefelfing / Munich, we can offer professional eCognition training for up to five participants also under the current hygiene regulations.

If you or your employees need basic training in eCognition or qualified help to work on specific subject areas, our Ruleware developers can impart the necessary knowledge personally in a training for up to five participants.The face-to-face training also offers the opportunity to deal directly with project-specific questions or to be able to solve other problems in dialogue.

If you are interested feel welcome to contact us.

(Edited May 2020)

Geospatial webinar on project of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Tama Group now online available

In this geospatial webinar Steve Schill (TNC) and Fritjof Lüthje (Tama Group) give “An introduction to automated feature extraction”.

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) works with governments and stakeholders to protect, restore, and monitor coastal and marine habitats throughout the Caribbean. Baseline maps are greatly needed to understand the extent, condition, and change of these habitats. Using eCognition TNC has teamed up with value-added Tama Group to develop a highly sophisticated rule set for automated feature detection of shallow benthic habitats using spectral, depth, and geomorphic zone data. The product represents the highest resolution and consistently mapped benthic habitat product for the Caribbean Basin.

Click here if you couldnt’t joyn or if you want to take another deepening  look at the topic.

(Edited May 2020)

Webinar Alert: Customization in eCognition: Increased efficiency with custom made algorithms and interfaces

Tama Group eCognition webinar on April 16 at 11:00 a.m

Thanks to faster access to frequently used functions and algorithms, every eCognition user can optimize their user interface and algorithms with regard to their own requirements.

The webinar will be held in German and we will show practical tips and tricks on how to use these options best.

Click here to sign in for our webinar.

(Edited April 2020)

Webinar Alert: Trimble eCognition – an introduction to automated feature extraction

At 3pm (IST) on April 15, 2020, Geospatial World, in association with Trimble, will be hosting a webinar to answer all your question and introduce you to the Trimble eCognition software. The webinar will also dwell into the principles of OBIA and rule set development, apart from some of the best use cases.

For more information and register click here.

(Edited April 2020)

HomeOffice with local eCognition license               Relief action until April 30th, 2020

Trimble supports eCognition customers in the current corona situation

If you need an additional temporary eCognition license to simplify working in your home office or even make it possible in the first place, Trimble provides you with a single eCognition Developer license. This additional license is valid until the end of April 2020 and is free of charge.

If you have any questions or run into technical problems, please feel free to contact us. support@tama-group.com

(Edited March 2020)

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.

Let’s stay in contact.

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

Click here to register

(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

(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.

(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.

Read more

(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.

Read more

(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.

Read more

(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.

Read more

(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)

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.

Read on

(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.

Read on

(Published September 2016 )