Software Processing for Drone Images

Software Processing for Drone Images

Popular Photogrammetry Processing Software for drones:
  1. $ WebODM - https://www.opendronemap.org/webodm/ - Open Source Processing.  Awesome. Drone. Software. We are creating the most sustainable drone mapping software with the friendliest community on earth. Free and Low Cost Solution.  Limited by the hardware that you have to process the data.  Great for smaller photogrammetry data sets.
  2. $$$$ Pix4D - https://www.pix4d.com/ - multiple local and cloud options.  Prices vary depending on license and use.  One of the more popular options.
  3. $$$$ Agisoft Metashape - https://www.agisoft.com/ - Long standing processing software. Agisoft Metashape is a stand-alone software product that performs photogrammetric processing of digital images and generates 3D spatial data to be used in GIS applications, cultural heritage documentation, and visual effects production as well as for indirect measurements of objects of various scales.
  4. $$$ DroneDepoy - Online only processing.
  5. $$$ DJITerra - https://enterprise.dji.com/dji-terra - free for processing the L1 and L2 lidar.  Does both Photogrammetry and Lidar processing.
  6. $ Autel Mapper - https://www.autelrobotics.com/doc/598/ - new to the market.  Capabilities have yet to be fully tested.


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