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- Pix4Dmapper -

The leading photogrammetry software for professional drone mapping

Capture
Capture RGB, thermal or multispectral images with any camera. If you are using a drone, automate flight and image-data transfer with the free Pix4Dcapture app.

Digitize
Pix4Dmapper transforms your images into digital spatial models. Seamlessly process your projects using the cloud or the desktop photogrammetry platform.

Control
Assess and improve the quality of your project. The quality report gives a preview of the generated results, calibration details, and many more project quality indicators.

Measure & inspect
Measure distances, areas, and volumes. Extract elevation profile data and perform virtual inspections.

Collaborate & share
Streamline project communication and teamwork. Selectively and securely share project data and insights with your team, clients, and suppliers, with standard file formats or online with Pix4D Cloud.

A variety of tools to power applications across industries - Desktop & cloud

Survey-grade results
Obtain results with sub-centimetre accuracy. 1-2 pixel GSD in X, Y directions 1-3 pixels GSD in the Z direction.

Complete control over your project
Define an area of interest, select processing options, add ground control points or edit point clouds, DSMs, meshes, and orthomosaics.

Your workflow, your choice
Use default templates for automatic processing, or custom settings for full control of quality, data, and projects. Choose when and how to use the cloud and desktop processing.

rayCloudtm

The power of photogrammetry software
A unique environment connecting your original images to each point of the 3D reconstruction to visually verify and improve the accuracy of your project.

Accurate 3D maps and models, purely from images

Automatic point cloud classification
Distinguish objects with machine learning classification processes.

Flatten & smoothen digital surfaces
Create surfaces to improve planarity or fill holes in critical areas.

Easily measure surface, distance, volume & elevation
Measure in 3D with a fully-adjustable base height.

Inspect & Annotate
Remotely inspect projects and accurately pinpoint, highlight and describe critical elements.

Collaborate & Share
Selectively and securely share project data and insights with your team, clients or other stakeholders.

Inputs

Aerial -nadir & oblique- and terrestrial imagery
Process images taken from any angle from, any aerial or terrestrial, manned or unmanned platform.

Video (mp4 or avi format)
Automatically extracts still frames from videos to create a project.

Any camera (compact, DSLR, thermal, multispectral, fisheye, 360 Degree , large-frame, etc.) images in .jpg or .tiff
Use images acquired with any camera, from small to large frames, from consumer-grade to highly specialized cameras (large frame add-on required for images over 55 MP).

Multi-camera support in the same project
Create a project using images from different cameras and process them together.

RTK/PPK + IMU data support
Allows faster and more robust calibration when using the Accurate Geolocation Pipeline.

Camera rig support
Process images using known rig relatives from multiple synchronized cameras.

Ground control point edit and import
Import and edit ground control points to improve the absolute accuracy of your project.

Known or custom reference coordinate system support in imperial or metric units
Select EPSG code from known coordinate systems or define your own local system.

Camera exterior orientation support
Optimize camera exterior orientation parameters starting from GPS and IMU input parameters.

External point cloud import
Import point clouds from different sources, such as LiDAR, to generate DSMs & orthomosaics.

Processing

Processing templates
Automate processing and generation of outputs by using standard or customized templates.

Rapid Check with Quality Report
Rapid processing template for a quick dataset-check while still on site.

Camera self-calibration
Optimize internal camera parameters, such as focal length, principal point of autocollimation and lens distortions.

Rolling shutter effect correction
Correct the warp of images taken with rolling shutter cameras (like GoPro, DJI Phantoms, etc.) to maintain accuracy even when flying fast and low.

Automatic Aerial Triangulation (AAT) and Bundle Block Adjustment (BBA)
Process automatically with or without known camera exterior orientations: (x, y, z, w, f, k).

Automatic point cloud densification
Produce a dense and detailed 3D point cloud, which can be used as a basis for DSM and 3D mesh.

Automatic point cloud filtering & smoothing
Use presets for point cloud filtering and smoothing options.

Machine-learning point cloud classification
Automatically classify the RGB dense point cloud into five groups: ground road surfaces, high vegetation, buildings and human-made objects.

Automatic DTM/DEM extraction
Remove above-ground objects from DSM and create a bare-Earth model.

Automatic brightness and color correction
Compensate automatically for change of brightness, luminosity and color balancing of images.

Quality Report
Assess the accuracy and quality of projects.

Project merging and splitting
Combine multiple projects into one or splite large projects into several for more efficient processing.

Project area definition
Import (.shp) or draw specific areas to faster generate results inside specific boundaries.

Custom number of keypoints
Set the number of keypoints to filter noise or speed up processing.

Multiprocessor CPU + GPU support
Increase the processing speed by leveraging the power of CPU cores and threads, as well as GPUs.

Radiometric processing and calibration
Calibrate and correct the image image reflectance, taking the illumination and sensor influence into consideration.

Raycloud Editor

Project visualization
Assess quality of optimized camera positions, 3D point cloud and mesh.

Navigation modes
View 3D point cloud and mesh in standard, trackball or first person viewing modes.

Scale Constraint
Accurately scale projects with no or imprecise geolocation by defining one/multiple distances.

Orientation Constraint
Orientate objects with no or imprecise geolocation by defining directions of one/multiple axes.

Ground control point (GCP ) / Manual tie point (MTP) editing
Annotate and edit 2D and 3D GCPs, check points, and MTPs with the highest accuracy, using both original images and 3D information at the same time.

Ellipsoid error visualization
Visually assess the size of the error of the computed position of a GCP or MTP.

Project reoptimization
Reoptimize camera positions and/or rematch images based on GCPs & MTPs to improve reconstruction.

Image masking
• Carve: Remove points from 3D point cloud and create filters based on image content
• Mask: Clear the unwanted background in orthoplane results.
• Global Mask: Disregard objects that appear in all images, such as a drone leg or a tripod.

Point cloud editing
Select, classify or delete points from the point cloud using various selection tools.

Orthoplane creation
Define a plane to generate a DSM and orthomosaic from building facades, bridge piles, etc.

Polyline and surface object creation
• Annotate and measure polylines and surfaces in the point cloud.
• Accurately refine vertexes in multiple original images.

3D mesh and DSM editing
Annotate & create surfaces in the point cloud to flatten an area or fill up holes in the mesh and DSM.

Visual outlier detection
Detect and visualize incorrectly-clicked MTPs (Manual Tie Points)/GCPs (Ground Control Points).

Fly-through animation
Create a virtual camera trajectory, play the animation in real-time and export it.

Volume Manager

Volume object creation
Annotate and measure volumes based on the DSM.

Volume object management
Import and export selected volume bases in .shp files to enable easy monitoring of stockpiles on site.

Base adjustment
Adjust the reference base to fit different terrain and obtain accurate measurement.

Mosaic Editor

Region editing
Create and edit regions on the orthomosaic, choose the best content from multiple underlying images and projection type to remove moving objects or artifacts.

- Education -

Elevate education and academic research with photogrammetry Teach photogrammetry with Pix4D

Explain
Use Pix4Dmapper 1/2S unique rayCloud environment to demonstrate the principles of photogrammetry. Information from Pix4D.

Teach
Enhance your curriculum or design your own courses with our unparalleled knowledge base, open-access online exercises and videos. Research using the benefits of photogrammetry.

Explore
Advance research with full access to Pix4D 1/2S mapping and photogrammetry technology.