In early May 2025, students from the "Land Management and Cadastre" program at St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPbGASU) visited the production facility of KB "Panorama" in Noginsk. The event was part of the professional training for future cadastral engineers and specialists in land management and geoinformation technologies, allowing them to become familiar with technologies already widely used by enterprises of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography and private companies, as well as with promising developments. In the context of active development of digital infrastructure for cadastre and land management, KB "Panorama" is expanding its cooperation with government agencies and educational institutions. In April, together with the ABUKO association, a professional development course was organized for "Roscadastre" specialists, aimed at in-depth mastery of new geospatial data processing tools.

During the students' visit, representatives of the design bureau demonstrated commercial software for land management, cadastre, and urban planning, emphasizing the importance of technical support for the work of specialized services. Participants studied innovative methods of automatic interpretation and vectorization of data based on neural network training, and also examined examples of their application in real projects.

Particular interest was generated by the demonstration of the Information System of the Federal Spatial Data Fund (IS FFPD). Experts explained its role in forming the Unified Electronic Cartographic Base (UECB) and interaction with the federal spatial data portal (GIS FSPD). An equally important part of the program was the introduction to the Regional Geoinformation System of the Ryazan Region (RGIS RR). Students learned about the structure and composition of its layers, mechanisms for updating data from the Unified State Register of Real Estate (EGRN), and their use in cadastral valuation and urban planning.

A separate section was devoted to open spatial data: searching for sources, converting information, working with topographic classifiers, and publishing updated data. Participants also learned about end-to-end technology for processing data from drones—from surveying to creating large-scale plans using PHOTOMOD software and GIS "Panorama".

The meeting concluded with an open discussion where students asked questions about industry prospects and the implementation of artificial intelligence in cadastral activities.

The visit to KB "Panorama" became an important stage for students in understanding modern tools that will be in demand in their future work with geodata and cadastral systems. The organizers noted that such events help future specialists integrate academic knowledge into the context of real production tasks, which is especially important in the era of digital transformation of geodata.

KB "Panorama" has developed "Urban Planner Workstation" version 15.4.3. The new version implements the generation of electronic documents in XML format for submitting information about issued construction permits. The list of reference books and attributes of accounting objects has been expanded, and the list of synchronized attributes of capital construction objects in the registry with the semantics of map objects has been supplemented.

In the "Urban Planner Workstation," a mode has been developed for automatically creating XML files containing information about the date of issuance of construction permits for residential buildings (including apartment buildings) on land plots acquired or provided to individuals and/or legal entities for housing construction. The file is generated in accordance with the schema VO_RAZRSTR_2_240_16_04_01_01.xsd, approved by the order of the Federal Tax Service of Russia dated August 16, 2023, No. ED-7-21/545. The notification can contain information about: the issuance of a construction permit; changes to the date of permit issuance; termination of the permit. The new mode is integrated into the functionality of the "Accounting Objects" registry. This allows it to be used within the existing service, ensuring consistency of work with capital construction objects under construction and land plots marked on the map. When launching the mode from the "Construction Permit" dialog, the necessary data for generating the notification is automatically read. Based on this data, the semantic characteristics of the land plot on the map are updated. After completing the semantics update, the notification itself is generated, saved as an XML file, and placed in the folder with the map.

To support the new functionality, a new reference book "Document Type" has been added to the database and the survey classifier. It can take the values: "Primary" (for the initial permit) and "Corrective" (for corrections to a previously issued permit). In addition, new semantic attributes necessary for generating notifications have been developed. To ensure complete data consistency, the names and codes of attributes strictly correspond to the same-named semantics defined in the survey classifier. These attributes are used to update the semantics of land plots on the map. This mode expands the capabilities of working with construction permits, providing convenience and compliance with the regulatory requirements of the Federal Tax Service of Russia.

The new version of the program is available on our website in the Download section.

KB "Panorama" has developed the automatic recognition and vectorization service "Panorama Vision" version 1.3.0. The new version adds a "City" mode for joint interpretation of road networks and buildings on satellite images. This combined mode improves the quality of the final map through mutual topological coordination of objects during the vectorization stage. During vector map creation, intelligent connection of road network gaps is performed within a specified tolerance. This process excludes possible intersections of roads with buildings recognized in the image. Building geometry is then simplified, converted to rectangular shapes, and rotated along the directions of the nearest roads. The "City" mode is optimized for working with images with a spatial resolution of 0.6 m/pixel.

Neural network models in "City" mode provide recognition of paved and dirt roads in images, and also allow buildings to be classified into several subtypes: residential buildings (multi-story and individual residential structures), public buildings (schools, kindergartens, hospitals, and others), industrial and commercial buildings (factories, shopping centers, and others), and garages (garage cooperative complexes).

The map5000m.rscz classifier is used to create the vector map. Paved roads are mapped as linear objects "Highway" with code 61230000, dirt roads as linear objects "Streets" with code 45200000. Buildings are mapped as area objects of the following types: "Residential Building" (with key "a_residential_b"), "Public Building" (with key "a_public_b"), "Industrial Enterprise" (with key "a_industrial_b"), "Garages (GSK and others)" (with key "a_garages_b"). The position of all buildings on the map is adjusted to correspond to their foundations.

The map generated by the "Panorama Vision" service is ready for integration into GIS for urban infrastructure planning and optimal route construction to objects. The "Road Graph Editor" application is used for route planning in GIS "Panorama".

In addition to recognizing roads and buildings, the "Panorama Vision" service can recognize the contours of agricultural fields and hydrographic objects (rivers, ponds, lakes, and others). The service is hosted on KB "Panorama" servers on the Internet. Access is available from the list of GIS "Panorama" applications: "Launch Applications" - "Automatic Image Recognition" option.

The capabilities of the "Panorama Vision" complex will be presented at the XXI International Exhibition and Scientific Congress "Interexpo GEO-Siberia 2025". We invite everyone to visit the KB "Panorama" stand, where we will demonstrate this innovative product created using artificial intelligence technologies.

The current version of GIS "Panorama" is available for download in the Download section.

All users who register at the KB "Panorama" stand will receive a 20% discount on the "Panorama Vision" automatic recognition and vectorization complex. This discount can be used until July 31, 2025.

Specialists from KB "Panorama" have prepared a video tutorial on using the "Aerodrome Output" mode of the "Aeronautical Information Document Preparation" application in GIS "Panorama".

Within the framework of the reviewed mode, new airports and heliports are mapped and existing ones are updated on the user map "Aerodromes".

The video tutorial demonstrates how to configure aerodrome parameters for subsequent mapping on the user map. The settings fields allow multiple selection by type, class and status of the selected aerodrome. Using the "Update" button, partial updating of the semantic characteristics of the aerodrome is carried out. If the aerodrome is not on the map, it will be created. Using the "Print" button, the ability to generate pages of the aeronautical passport of an aerodrome/heliport or civil aviation landing site has been added in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Transport of Russia. Passport printing is performed according to the selected template file. Templates for generating passports are included in the installation package and are located in the corresponding folder (Ani.dot\\ANP\\).

You can access the training materials in the "Video Tutorials" section.

KB "Panorama" has developed the "3D Analysis Complex" version 6.5.0 for GIS "Panorama". The complex is designed to create surface models and perform various calculations using these models. In the new version, the task "Building a heat map" has been added to the "Creating matrices and models" panel.

A heat map is a method of graphically representing discrete data, in which different values are displayed in specific colors. These maps are used to visualize spatially distributed phenomena or processes. For example, temperature, humidity, density of object placement, concentration of impurities. Data sources for building heat maps can be vector maps, spatial databases, web services opened in GIS "Panorama". Visualization is performed in a selected palette containing color shades from blue (cold) to red (hot), with a transition through white (medium) color. The result of building a heat map is a quality matrix containing density values of selected point objects from the vector map. The task performs the construction of a heat map with continuous distribution of the visualized value using the Moving Average interpolation method of discrete data in a given area. The constructed matrix maps can be used for profiling, determining zones of correspondence, building isolines, and in other spatial analysis tasks.

The "3D Analysis Complex" includes a wide range of specialized tasks for working with spatial data. It includes tools for detailed terrain analysis, modeling derivative surfaces, creating vector characteristics, as well as forecasting tasks and calculation accuracy assessment. Surface models can display various terrain characteristics - from traditional terrain heights to parameters such as pollution concentration, precipitation amount, radiation level, and other environmental indicators. Various data formats can be used to build models: vector data (SHP, MIF, DXF, SXF, KML), information from database tables (DBF, XLS), as well as raster and cloud data (SRTM, GeoTIFF, XYZ, LAS) - a total of more than 20 formats are supported. The created models are used both for visualizing territory in 3D and for solving practical tasks: precise distance measurement, area and volume calculation, profile construction, visibility zone determination, and slope exposure analysis.

The "3D Analysis Complex" uses surface models in tasks of building isolines, forming the H coordinate (height) of map objects, when building flood zones, and for modeling emergency situations. The "3D Analysis Complex" also includes tasks for predicting the zone of emergency oil spill and calculating the volumes of earthworks.

The new version of the program is available for download in the Download section.