KB "Panorama" has developed the aerial photography processing software "Panorama Photo" version 1.6 using CUDA technology version 12.6 for the "Astra Linux Special Edition" operating system. "Panorama Photo" is designed to obtain digital terrain information from images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles. The primary processing result is a point cloud, which serves as the basis for creating a height matrix and orthophotoplan. The processing is fully automated. An optional step of measuring ground control points on images allows for improved orientation accuracy.

The program can be applied to solve tasks in urban planning and cadastral activities, national defense, mapping, ecology, forestry and municipal management, among others. Data generated in "Panorama Photo" serves as a reliable and visual control tool when performing construction and reconstruction work on various types of municipal property and transport infrastructure. Based on the data prepared by the complex, three-dimensional terrain models are created, and mathematical models of emergency situations are built and analyzed in GIS "Panorama". Orthophotoplans created in "Panorama Photo" provide a basis for identifying and monitoring waste storage sites, conducting forest inventories to assess damage from fires, air pollution, and illegal deforestation.

Calculations are parallelized on multi-core processors and graphics cards, so increasing the number of processor cores and video memory significantly accelerates data processing. On a computer with a modern graphics card and RAM of at least 128 GB, obtaining a volumetric model, height matrix, and orthophotoplan for 1 square kilometer of aerial photography with a point size of about 2 cm takes approximately 1 hour.

The orthophotoplans obtained in the program can be used to create vector maps. The "Panorama Vision" automatic recognition and vectorization complex allows this to be done automatically. The client module of the complex is called as an application task in GIS "Panorama". The complex is based on artificial intelligence using trained neural networks. "Panorama Vision" can recognize the contours of field plots, hydrographic objects (rivers, ponds, lakes, and others), buildings, structures, and roads. It creates processing requests to the server part of the complex, located on KB "Panorama" technical equipment. The processing results in a vector map with contours of recognized objects, such as buildings and structures.

All processing results obtained in "Panorama Photo" and GIS "Panorama" (matrices, point clouds, orthophotoplans, vector maps) can subsequently be used in various KB "Panorama" software products for two-dimensional and three-dimensional (volumetric) terrain visualization.

For organized storage and use of data, the Digital Maps and Remote Sensing Data Bank is used. This complex serves as the foundation for building spatial data infrastructure at federal, regional, and municipal levels and in corporate information systems. It is used for maintaining cloud storage of spatial data sets, collecting and storing metadata, selecting and delivering spatial data upon request, preparing reports, forming and publishing geo-coverages, and displaying the data bank status in the form of schematic maps. Remote placement of spatial data sets in file storage, version management of stored sets, updating of data availability schematic maps, and automated collection and formation of metadata are all supported.

OS "Astra Linux Special Edition" is a Russian certified operating system with built-in information protection tools for stable and secure operation of IT infrastructures of any scale and for processing information of various confidentiality levels. The operating system includes a set of programs for solving everyday office and multimedia tasks.

The new version of the "Panorama Photo" program is available for download on the Download page.

Geoportal "Bank of spatial data" has been supplemented with a map of Belize, formed according to OpenStreetMap data. To work with the map, you can use the GIS Panorama Mini program or other software products of KB "Panorama".

The map was led to the modernised classifier of large-scale plans of scale 1: 5 000 (map5000m). Publishing of updates in bank of spatial data is made by using the program of Databank of digital maps and remote sensing data. Publishing contents of bank of spatial data on the geoportal and data access for downloading are implemented by means of GIS WebServer SE.

Free maps on the basis of OpenStreetMap data are available for download on the page "Digital maps".

Specialists from KB "Panorama" have prepared an update to the address database used in GIS "Panorama" and "Workstation of cadastral engineer". As part of the latest update, the database has been supplemented with more than 3,500,000 new records covering various categories of objects: land plots, capital construction objects, parking spaces, apartments, and rooms.

The updated version of the address database has been automatically integrated into the functionality of the software products and is available when performing cadastral work. In particular, it simplifies the editing of object attributes and the formation of technical plans for buildings, structures, construction in progress, premises, and parking spaces. The database structure fully complies with the State Address Register (GAR) and allows users to select addresses in accordance with municipal and administrative-territorial divisions. To ensure compatibility with previous addressing systems (KLADR and FIAS), the database includes unique identification codes of objects from these registers.

The "Panorama" address database is formed based on up-to-date information from the Federal Tax Service website. The current versions of GIS "Panorama" and "Workstation of cadastral engineer" are available in the Download section.

From February 25 to 26, 2025, a training seminar was held in Perm for employees of PPK "Roscadastre" to prepare them for performing comprehensive cadastral works in the regions of the Russian Federation. The event, organized by the branch of the public law company "Roscadastre" in Perm Krai, was held at the Perm State Agrarian and Technological University.

Comprehensive cadastral works (CCW) are being conducted by PPK "Roscadastre" branches across 17,500 cadastral quarters in 87 regions of the Russian Federation. Aerial photography using unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) is widely used in performing CCW. Specialists from various regions of the country attended lectures and gained practical skills in applying photogrammetric tools and geoinformation technologies. They improved their skills in processing field work results, maintaining cadastral maps, clarifying the location of land plot boundaries and real estate objects, filling in attribute information, and preparing cadastral documents.

During the event, KB "Panorama" employees presented the capabilities of GIS "Panorama" for maintaining cadastral maps using various source data applied in comprehensive cadastral works. The training discussed the specifics of georeferencing source photo and cartographic materials for digitizing them as part of the cadastral map. Advanced data processing technologies were presented, including "Panorama Photo" for processing materials obtained from UAS, and "PanoramaVision" for automatic recognition of various object classes from terrain images.

The training demonstrated the connection to services of the federal state information system "Unified Digital Platform 'National Spatial Data System'" (NSDS) in GIS "Panorama". The "Select geoportals from list" mode provides connection to map base layer images and cadastral objects. The "Search by geoportal" task allows searching by cadastral number or cadastral object address. The "Information from the state real estate cadastre" mode provides attribute information about the following classes of cadastral objects: land plots, buildings, structures, objects under construction, zones with special conditions for territory use, boundaries of municipalities and settlements, and boundaries of water bodies.

Special attention was given to using the tasks "Reading CPT and map updating", "Cadastral works database", and "Cadastral object attributes" for preparing cadastral maps of comprehensive cadastral works territories. For creating and editing land plots, buildings, and structures, the digital classifier survey.v6 was recommended. It contains necessary cadastral objects as a separate layer "Cadastral plan of territory". PPK "Roscadastre" specialists were shown how to use the "Formation of territory map-plan" mode to create a text report and electronic XML document. The ability to form electronic documents according to MapPlanTerritory_v01.xsd and MapPlanTerritory_v02.xsd schemas ensures the submission of comprehensive cadastral work results to the Unified State Register of Real Estate in compliance with regional specifics.

KB "Panorama" has developed the "Spatial Analysis Complex" designed for studying territorial properties and finding relationships between objects and their attributes. The program creates thematic maps based on data in planning and development, social, geographical, environmental, and financial research. The construction is based on quantitative indicators of information about natural resource reserves, soil and vegetation quality, planning and development, distribution of animal species, environmental pollution levels, healthcare, demographics, crime, and other phenomena. Thematic maps allow statistical data to be visually displayed on a selected terrain map, from a World map to a map of an individual city. The results of spatial analysis are saved as various map options: colored and hatched polygons, bar and pie charts, hexagonal networks. The complex is installed as part of GIS "Panorama". The complex panel is launched in the "Launch Applications" dialog in the "Thematic Maps and Diagrams" section. The procedures for creating thematic cartograms and diagrams allow the formation of graphic images that clearly illustrate the relationship between values of a selected characteristic for individual digital map objects.

The hexagonal network construction procedure creates thematic maps in the form of a hexagonal network based on positive and negative environmental impact factors in the selected territory. When building a thematic map, the selected map fragment is covered with a network of hexagonal cells of equal area containing objects of interest. The choice of hexagonal cell shape is explained by a more homogeneous structure of connections between neighboring cells: each hexagonal cell has 6 neighboring cells, with equal distance to the centers of adjacent cells. As an example, parameters for building a map of favorable areas based on a test terrain map have been added to the program installation. The map construction takes into account the presence of objects of interest (residential buildings) and environmental impact factors, as well as the distance of objects of interest from environmental objects. Objects with negative factors include objects (territories) representing technological hazards (chemical plants and nuclear industry enterprises), noise levels (construction sites, railways, major highways, stadiums), air quality (landfills, livestock farms, smokestacks), unfavorable landscape elements (cemeteries, swampy areas). Objects with positive factors include objects (territories) that improve the quality of the urban environment (theaters, sports grounds, swimming pools), favorable landscape elements (forests, water bodies). Each object is assigned a radius of influence (in meters) on neighboring objects. For example, a major road is assigned a radius of 3000 m, a railway track - 1000 m, a landfill - 5000 m. For objects of small length and area, the radius of influence is reduced. Upon completion of the hexagonal network construction, the map is colored according to the degree of influence of negative and positive factors: red - unfavorable area, orange and yellow - areas with poor and low quality urban environment, green and blue - areas with good, high and comfortable quality urban environment. When selecting the "Show hexagonal network statistics" mode, a dialog opens to display statistics for the hexagonal areas of the network. The dialog contains lists of objects of interest (residential buildings), lists of influence objects and influence factors. Selecting objects allows highlighting them on the map.

The "Calculate semantics values for included objects" task allows copying object semantics based on territorial affiliation and works in two modes: calculations by semantics and transferring semantics from included objects to selected polygons. The "Calculations by semantics" mode allows analyzing the distribution of a group of objects within selected polygons (area objects) and filling the semantic characteristics of polygons based on the results of the analysis. Before launching the dialog, polygons to which semantic characteristics will be added are preliminarily marked on the map using search and selection tools. The analyzed objects are specified by the map object filter (Filter button).

The "Copy semantics to included objects" task is designed to transfer values of specified semantic characteristics from reference polygon objects to the semantics of territorially dependent selected objects of the digital map. If the input map and the map with editable data have different classifiers, one characteristic should be selected from the list of copied semantics and coordinated with the semantics of the selected objects. Otherwise, with identical classifiers, multiple selection of copied semantics is allowed. Coordination of semantic characteristics is performed automatically.

KB "Panorama" specialists have prepared a video tutorial on the "Building a hexagonal network" task. The Spatial Analysis Complex complements the capabilities of the 3D Analysis Complex for studying terrain properties using various source data. The current version of GIS "Panorama" is available for download in the Download section.