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Makai Voyager™ is an advanced 3D/4D visualization software that allows you to view and analyze geospatial data anywhere on earth, including: terrain imagery, elevation, LIDAR, volume and flow data from the ocean and atmosphere, and more.

Beyond traditional desktop GIS software, Makai Voyager includes rich support for time-varying and complex 3D geospatial data. Voyager was developed specifically to visualize and analyze large environmental simulations in a georeferenced setting. The features and gallery pages show the numerous capabilities of the software.

We encourage you to download the free demo, and explore the example scenes to get an idea of the software's many capabilities. Please contact us for more information on the Makai Voyager visualization platform.

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Key Features

Fast

Makai Voyager uses advanced data and hardware management techniques to allow large, time-varying data sets to be visualized on a standard PC at fast, interactive speeds.

Using level-of-detail technology, Voyager can view spatial data at a wide range of scales -- from huge ocean simulations, to sub-centimeter laser surveys. Time-varying data can be viewed over seconds, hours, or years, with virtually unlimited data sizes (terabytes).

Voyager has also been designed for today's multicore workstations, by using threading so that data operations don't slow down the GUI. Also, by using the GPU, we are able to maximum graphics performance on laptops and desktops.

Versatile

Makai Voyager supports a wide range of geospatial imagery, GIS, and scientific data types are supported. The Pro version can handle hundreds of formats:

  • Terrain imagery and elevation data
  • Web Map Services (WMS)
  • Volume data (earth, ocean, and atmosphere)
  • Flow data
  • Sea surface data
  • LIDAR (in .las format, and text)
  • Real-time sensor data (SOS and GeoRSS)
  • 3D models and KML files
  • NetCDF Files
  • GIS data in >140 different formats

Web-Enabled

Today's networked age requires data access on local networks and via the Web. The Makai Voyager software stores environmental data in an advanced, multi-resolution format, making data access seamless from your hard drive, local network, or the Internet.

With Voyager, you'll also be able to load Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Sensor Observation Services (SOS), OPeNDAP, and other web-based data services.

You can read about Makai's work on web services, and visualization on phone and tablet devices, in our publications section!

Analysis & Presentation Tools

Makai Voyager Pro includes a broad range of tools for the inspection, analysis, and presentation of complex multi-variate data. Measurement & analysis features such as slicing, probing, cropping and graphing tools allow users to explore and analyze their scientific data to gain detailed insight. Graphs, data tables, screenshots, and movies can be exported in a variety of formats for further analysis or presentation.

Products & Services

The Makai Voyager software comes in two versions:

  • Makai Voyager Pro (paid) is a full-featured environmental visualization product with data import, export, graphing and analysis tools, and a module system for domain-specific functionality.
  • Makai Voyager Viewer (free) can be used to view data processed by the Pro version (in Voyager's environmental data format), but it does not have data import or as many analysis tools.

Makai also offers professional development services to customize the software to suit your needs. We understand that one-size doesn't fit all, and encourage you to contact us directly for more information.

Applications

Meteorology
Meteorology: Makai Voyager can show large, time-varying 3D weather simulations and stream live weather layers from the Internet. Voyager can save video or high-resolution screen shots of your work.

Topography
Topography: Many terrain data formats can be imported with Makai Voyager's data import module. Lighting, colors, and elevation contours for terrain and bathymetry can be changed dynamically.

LIDAR LIDAR: Large scientific datasets can be streamed over a network or the Internet. Voyager can work at any scale, from LIDAR surveys of a city, to global environmental simulations.

Oceanography Oceanography: Multiple environmental datasets can be fused in one view. 3D models and KML files are easily loaded and georeferenced to add even more realism.