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 22nd
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 22nd. The online conference day is followed by two training days with Developer Forums and Training Blocks on September 23rd and 24th 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)
Meet Tama Group on Social Media
To make it easier for you to follow the current developments at Tama Group, you can now follow us on our social media accounts. On LinkedIn (in English), Facebook or Instagram, we keep you up to date with news about Tama Group.
You can easily access our accounts at any time using the social media icons in the footer of our website.
(Edited January 2020)
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Recognizing the problem is more important than finding the solution, because the exact representation of the problem almost automatically leads to the right solution.
(Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955)
Tama Group wishes you a merry and relaxing christmas and looks forward to cooperating in 2020.
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Tama Group eCognition Skill Tester online now
To offer you the chance of using our training and coaching offers and webinars even more purposefully, we have designed the eCogniton Skill Tester for you.
Test your knowledge and expertise in eCognition in the five steps of the Tama Basis Process and see how confidently you are at home in eCognition. The questions are evaluated in time and you learn with the help of our color classification, at which level you move in the different areas. Then you can train in our webinars or our training & coaching program exactly those areas you want to be even better in.
(Edited November 2019)
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Tama Group on INTERGEO 2019 in Stuttgart, September 17 -19
The classics of remote sensing are and remain up-to-date. Through advanced technical capabilities on the one hand, and new problems and issues on the other, we all encounter new opportunities and challenges every day in our work with the classics remote sensing.
Visit us on Trimble Booth (Hall: 3, Booth: F3.093) to learn how Tama Group uses Trimble eCognition to meet new challenges.
(Edited August 2019)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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)
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.
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 )