Overwatch announced today the availability of RoadTracker 2.0 for Overwatch’s award-winning feature-extraction software, Feature Analyst.

RoadTracker 2.0 extends the ease-of-use and time-saving advantages of Feature Analyst by adding new capabilities for the many government and industry users of Feature Analyst’s suite of tools. The upgraded application, functional on any road surface type using either panchromatic or multi-spectral imagery, accelerates the collection of roads and other linear features from satellite or aerial imagery by up to a factor of four. This tool also includes automatic feature attribution and other smart editing capabilities that greatly improve speed, accuracy and workflow when collecting map-quality linear features.

Feature Analyst is an automated feature extraction extension that enables GIS analysts to rapidly and accurately collect vector feature data from high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery. Feature Analyst incorporates multi-attribute learning algorithms to also enable analysts to collect linear and polygonal features such as roads, hydrologic features, trails, buildings, vegetation, land-cover/land-use and many other features. Feature Analyst improves optimizes workflows for maintaining the temporal currency of geographic data.

For more information please visit www.featureanalyst.com