Virtual Surveyor Releases Latest Photogrammetry App: Completing Drone Survey Workflow
by DRONELIFE Staff Author Ian M. Crosby
Software company Virtual Surveyor has updated the most recent version of its smart drone surveying software to incorporate drone photogrammetry functionality. Photos are processed through the brand new Terrain Creator app to generate survey-grade terrains to be transferred to the Virtual Surveyor workspace to conduct survey work.
“Virtual Surveyor software is now two desktop apps in a single subscription package that create a seamless end-to-end drone survey workflow to save lots of money and time,” said Virtual Surveyor CEO Tom Op ‘t Eyndt. “Terrain Creator removes complexity from the drone photogrammetry process, offering a visible and intuitive application to provide an orthomosaic and digital surface model (DSM) from drone photos.”
Virtual Surveyor software was designed to link drone photogrammetric processing applications and engineering design packages. Prior to this release, users were required to make use of third-party software to create elevation models and an orthomosaic to be worked on with the Virtual Surveyor toolset to acquire the essential 3D topographic information.
“Drone surveyors now not need to spend money on a third-party photogrammetry package to convert their drone photos into an orthomosaic and DSMs,” said Op ‘t Eyndt. “It just comes with our package, and the fully integrated workflow eliminates the time spent porting photogrammetry products from one other package into Virtual Surveyor.”
Within the Virtual Surveyor desktop app, users can leverage its toolsets to create CAD models, cut-and-fill maps and calculations, or calculate volume reports.
Those already subscribers to Virtual Surveyor Ridge and Peak editions will receive an automatic update to Version 9.0 with Terrain Creator. Moreover, a versatile licensing setup for subscribing organizations will enable two users to access the Terrain Creator and Virtual Surveyor applications at the identical time on two different computers.
Virtual Surveyor will showcase its recent release at InterGEO 2023 (Hall 1.2, Stand D1.030) on October 10-12 in Berlin, Germany, in addition to other trade fairs this autumn.
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