LuciadFusion product tiers

These components are LuciadLightspeed Essential components.

They offer access to and representation of data in any coordinate reference system (geodetic, geocentric, topocentric, grid) and in any projection.

You can perform geodetic calculations, transformations, and ortho-rectification.

In addition, there is support for concurrent data access, asynchronous painting, and low-end hardware.

These components are LuciadLightspeed Essential components.

These components relate to data modeling.

Any data format can be supported. You can represent all object geometries and their metadata, and apply any data filter.

The components include support for complex geometries like geo-buffers, arcs and arc bands, and radar coverage volumes.

You can set up geo-fencing for volumes like radar coverage beams and other sensor detection ranges.

These components are LuciadLightspeed Essential components.

These components relate to data visualization.

You can visualize data in an accelerated 2D/3D view or a non-accelerated 2D view, or a virtual reality stereoscopic view. In addition, data with height information can be depicted in a vertical view or a profile view and dynamic data in a timeline view.

Furthermore, you can:

This component is a LuciadLightspeed Essential component.

Benefit from advanced, fully interactive graphical processing and visualization of raster data, including high dynamic range (HDR) and multi-spectral imagery.

This component is a LuciadLightspeed Essential component.

This component allows you to access data in many vector and raster formats.

The format support integrates with the data-agnostic visualization and analysis capabilities of the Luciad portfolio. If needed, multi-leveling and tiling can be applied.

Adding support for new, custom formats is a straightforward, well-documented process, but most common data formats are already supported.

The following formats are supported:

This component is a LuciadLightspeed Essential component.

This component allows you to connect to and visualize point clouds and reality meshes. Smart loading of 3D Tiles is available, as well as GPU-based visualization.

Furthermore, you can:

The following standards, formats and services are supported:

This is a LuciadFusion Essential component.

It offers servers for several Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) protocols. These are standards for querying and manipulating geospatial data based on various spatial and non-spatial constraints.

You have access to an easy-to-use web frontend to manage data, metadata, styles, products and publish services.

It supports on-the-fly WMTS for any data source as well as WMTS from pre-tiled data sets.

It supports on-the-fly 3D tiles for OSGB mesh data sources, as well as processed LAS/ LAZ data.

Supported OGC services: WMS, WCS, WFS(-T), WMTS, CSW, 3D tiles.

This component is a LuciadFusion Essential component.

This component is a LuciadLightspeed Pro component.

It adds tiling capabilities to your desktop solution.

The Tiling Engine allows you to process raw data into a hierarchical, tile-based structure. This optimizes access to the data, for the purpose of querying, visualization, and analysis. Using the Tiling Engine, you benefit from fast processing and efficient storage.

The Tiling Engine supports terrain data, (multispectral) imagery, multidimensional weather data and point cloud data.

This component is a LuciadFusion Essential component.

Use a service to provide full sets of any symbology icons with icon styling specifications. Use the same icons across the system, on the map, and in other UI components.

Integration with military symbology requires the Defense Symbology option of LuciadFusion Pro.

This component is a LuciadFusion Essential component.

Centrally organize, manage and serve all your geospatial data and styles from the LuciadFusion Studio web application, regardless of the format of that data, and let clients discover data through an OGC CSW catalog.

Discover and aggregate all the geospatial data you have available by crawling your data repositories and automatically collecting and generating the metadata descriptions from the LuciadFusion Studio web application.

Define revisit intervals to automatically update services when data changes — for example, to automatically publish an updated weather forecast or mission plan.

Integrate data crawling and data updates into your own workflow using the REST API.

This component is a LuciadLightspeed Essential component.

This component allows you to connect to several OGC web services and read data in several OGC formats.

The following standards, formats and services are supported: OGC GeoPackage, GML, KML, WCS, WFS(-T), WMS, WMTS, OGC Filter 2.0, OGC Symbology Encoding (SE), ISO 19115 metadata.

For OGC Filter 2.0, please note that spatial filter capabilities can be enabled from the Advanced GIS Engine listed under Advanced and Pro options.

This component is a LuciadFusion Essential component.

Benefit from a fast and reliable service application framework that hosts data publication and analysis services. While it offers several of those services out of the box, developers can easily extend it to offer additional services for the publication and analysis of geospatial data. The platform enables service discovery, load balancing, failover, and security integration.

Dynamically set up services using the REST API.

Integrate custom service types.

This component is a LuciadLightspeed Advanced and Pro component.

It allows 2D topological calculations on any supported geometry. Those calculations include both binary topology checks and constructive geometry operations (union, difference, intersection). Cartesian, spherical, ellipsoidal, and rhumb shape implementations are included.

The operations apply to both geodetic and rhumb shapes.

This component is a LuciadLightspeed Advanced and Pro component.

It bundles a set of raster data connectors. Each of the connectors adds support for an additional format to the product.

The following formats are included: ECW, GeoPDF, GeoSPOT (Spatiocartes), MrSID, Spot DIMAP, and Swiss DHM. The GDAL data connector integrates the well-known GDAL raster library and adds support for many common raster formats.

The panoramic image data connector allows you to load and process panoramic imagery from the E57 and the Leica Pegasus formats. Custom panorama formats can be implemented using the panorama API.

This component is a LuciadLightspeed Pro optional component.

It bundles connectors for CAD (DWG/DXF/DGN) and BIM (IFC/Hexagon Binz) formats. The DWG data connector adds support for the AutoCAD DWG/DXF format, the DGN data connector for the Bentley Microstation DGN format. With the Binz and IFC data connectors you can process these formats into OGC 3D Tiles data sets.

It also includes a 3D Tiles Processing Engine for the conversion of 3D meshes (in OBJ format) to OGC 3D Tiles data sets.

This component is a LuciadLightspeed Advanced optional component and a LuciadLightspeed Pro component.

It provides support for seamlessly integrating geospatial databases into applications. This integration includes data retrieval, modeling, and persistence into the database.

As a result, information from the database can be visualized, edited, or serve as input for any analysis.

This component is a LuciadLightspeed Advanced and Pro optional component.

It offers routing and tracing capabilities, based on any network data, independent of the data format/source. It also includes cross-country routing, which can be applied in the absence of any road network information.

When network information is present, cost functions can be flexibly applied to edges and turns. Cost definitions can be based on any available information. Elements like slope, distance, vegetation or even weather conditions or communication coverage can be taken into account via custom cost functions. Large networks can be partitioned for efficient large-scale routing.

In addition, the GDF data connector adds support for the GDF format for exchanging road network information.

This is a LuciadLightspeed Advanced and Pro component.

It supports visualization and replay of radar data, including radar video (Asterix Category 240). For real-time track feeds, a dynamic, continuous label decluttering algorithm is available.

This is a LuciadLightspeed Advanced and Pro optional component.

It offers analysis capabilities that can be applied to any elevation data, independent of the data format/source.

The API offers full control over propagation and visualization, and includes hardware acceleration for Line-of-Sight calculations.

This component is a LuciadLightspeed Advanced and Pro optional component.

It offers visualization and analysis of weather and climate data offered in the NetCDF, GRIB, and BUFR SIGWX formats. Explore data via filtering and slicing, and simulate historical data and forecasts over time.

This is a LuciadLightspeed Pro optional component.

It offers extensive modeling and ICAO-compliant visualization of aeronautical data, in a format-independent way. All relevant domain objects are provided, such as airspaces, routes, procedures, aerodromes, and navaids.

Supported formats: AIXM (3.3, 4.0, 4.5, and 5.1), ARINC 424, DAFIF(T).

This is a LuciadLightspeed Pro optional component.

It bundles a set of connectors to formats described by Defense Standards. Each data connector adds support for an additional format.

The following connectors are included: VPF, MGCP, NITF/NSIF, ASRP/USRP/ADRG, BCI, and CADRG/CIB.

This is a LuciadLightspeed Pro optional component.

It allows you to visualize tactical situations and plans compliant with various military symbology standards. MS2525B/C/D and APP-6A/B/C/D are supported, both for the visualization of given data and for creation/editing. A rich API allows for customization and configuration where needed. The default implementation is fully compliant.

In addition, the NVG data connector adds support for the NVG format for exchanging tactical plans. Using an extensive domain model, data can be read, visualized, edited, and written again.

This is a LuciadLightspeed Pro optional component.

It offers high-performance support for S-57 and UKHO AML data with correct visualization according to the S-52 standard.

The API offers much flexibility in filtering the information to be displayed, and supports all required display modes, such as day, night, and dawn.

This is a LuciadLightspeed Pro optional component.

It provides two connectors that add support for radar recordings and live data: The ASTERIX data connector, adding support for the ASTERIX format (including many categories) and the ASDI connector.

This is a LuciadLightspeed Pro optional component.

It extends the ECDIS component with support for encrypted S-63 data. As a certified IHO OEM, Luciad can guide you not only with decryption, decoding, and visualization, but also with information about S-63 data ordering and licensing.