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Global Mapper supports more than 300 file formats, including vector, raster, elevation, and point cloud data, without the need for additional plugins or licenses. Users can load, combine, trim and organize virtually any type of data. Thanks to the constant addition of new and modified formats, the software will always be up to date.

Global Mapper offers real-time online data. This wide range of sources includes aerial imagery, global elevation data, topographic maps, Landsat satellite imagery, land cover data, aeronautical charts and much more.

Global Mapper offers flexible visualization of 2D and 3D data for optimal analysis, including customizable shaders and the creation of animations. In addition, the 3D viewer allows you to create and record virtual tour videos in HD, making it easy to exchange views of point clouds, elevation and overlaid rasters. It also allows you to capture screenshots, 3D data videos, and static map designs, ready to export to PDF or print with Global Mapper’s design tools. There are additional options for exporting map data to web tile formats.

Global Mapper supports a wide range of digitization tools, including the creation of point, line and polygon features. A set of specialized geometry tools allows you to generate range rings, grids, buffers, and more.

The Spatial Operations tool allows you to perform complex vector layer comparisons and create features, including intersection, union, difference, and symmetric difference operations, as well as numerous spatial predicates and transformations.

Global Mapper offers visual adjustment tools such as multiband data layering, panoramic enhancement, image mosaicization, and image mosaicking. Histogram matching allows the color channel of one layer to determine the adjustment in the others. This method, along with tools for smoothing images and adjusting contrast, makes it easy to combine data layers collected at different times or with different equipment.

The Spatial Operations tool allows you to perform complex vector layer comparisons and create features, including intersection, union, difference, and symmetric difference operations, as well as numerous spatial predicates and transformations.

Raster calculation allows you to perform mathematical operations on multiband images or multiple layers of data. Global Mapper supports various built-in formulas for NDVI, NDWI, other common indexes, and custom formulas. The Reclassify Raster tool converts the pixel values ​​of a layer based on user-defined rules.

Dynamic terrain visualization supports imported elevation data and TIN layers generated from 3D vector data with color shading options. Terrain data can be used to create vector layers that highlight patterns or values. Elevation layers can be used to generate contours that can be further customized with contour interval spacing, generating polygon features, and identifying local peaks and troughs.

Combining vector features with terrain data provides additional options, including: cut and fill volume calculations from polygonal or linear features, creation of flattened site plans, and generation of relative elevation models (REM).

Users can generate watersheds and delimit areas to determine the probable course of streams and their drainage or catchment area. Rising water levels and possible flooding from loaded ground can also be assessed.

Users can generate watersheds and delimit areas to determine the probable course of streams and their drainage or catchment area. Rising water levels and possible flooding from loaded ground can also be assessed.