I came across several bids to do LARGE scale mapping 20 - 40 km2. (Lost them, but the trend is there) So I am preparing for scaled production in case I eventually win such a bid. The big question is if CC Center is necessary? CC Standard edition does up to 100 Giga pixels. That in my experience can cover 10 -15 km2. Let say I get 40 km2 job. Then I can manually split the job into 4 photo sets (no big deal). Then run it on 4 separate computers running 4 separate CC Standard licenses. Then use control points to stitch 4 productions together. Considering a speed of 10 Gigapixels per day, 100 Gpx finish in 10 days. 400 gpx split to 4 computers finish in 10 days. Plus AT plus a few days to shoot it. I can finish a 40 km job in 14 days - 2 weeks. That might give me what I need to win the bid. To accomplish this I need to buy 4 CC licenses. Let say the cost of one CC license is 1X. So I need 4X dollars to make it work. Now if I do the same with CC Center: CC Center is 7 times the cost of the standard license (7X). Then each engine is (5X). To accomplish same task with CC Center I need 7X+5X*3=22X (1 License for the center edition + 3 engines) To do the same job I can spend 5.5 times more money and do it on the CCCenter. The advantage is that I might do less stitching (maybe). I'm actually not sure is 400 Gpx can come out of AT just fine to be split later and how long will it take. So I'd have to split it in sets anyway, so AT goes smoothly. Please, tell me that I'm wrong and it makes sense to pay that much more for CC Center. Otherwise, if all same work can be do with the Standard edition, feel free to delete this post.
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