Point clouds have become a foundational data format for modern GIS applications, especially in drone mapping, LiDAR surveys, smart cities, infrastructure planning, mining, and defense. While specialized tools exist for point cloud processing, QGIS now offers powerful native capabilities to visualize and analyze point clouds in 3D—all within an open-source GIS platform. In this blog, […]
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Drone mapping has become a core technology across surveying, infrastructure, agriculture, mining, smart cities, and defense applications. While photogrammetry software like Pix4D or OpenDroneMap is used to generate orthophotos and point clouds, QGIS plays a crucial role in visualization, analysis, and delivery of drone mapping outputs. In this blog, we explain how QGIS is used
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Introduction Drone mapping has become an essential tool across industries such as construction, agriculture, mining, urban planning, and defense. While many people associate drone mapping with expensive cloud platforms, open-source GIS tools like QGIS play a critical role, especially when working on specific project areas rather than large global datasets. A common question we hear
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Introduction Drone mapping has transformed how we capture, analyze, and visualize the real world. At the heart of this transformation lies point cloud data—a highly detailed 3D representation of terrain, structures, and objects captured from the air.In this blog, we’ll explain what a point cloud is in drone mapping, how it is generated, its key
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Introduction Point clouds are becoming a core part of modern drone mapping workflows—especially when working with LiDAR data or photogrammetry outputs. But visualizing these massive 3D datasets on the web can be challenging. This is where Potree, an open-source point cloud renderer, becomes an incredibly powerful tool. In this post, you’ll learn what point clouds
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Introduction Drone mapping has become essential across industries—agriculture, construction, mining, urban planning, utilities, and environmental monitoring. With tools like OpenDroneMap (ODM), it is now possible to process raw drone images into highly accurate geospatial outputs such as orthomosaics, DSM, point clouds, and 3D models. Once an orthomosaic is generated, the next step is to display
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Drone mapping has become essential across industries—agriculture, mining, construction, power utilities, disaster management, smart cities, and more. If you want to build high-quality 2D/3D maps from drone images without depending on expensive proprietary tools, OpenDroneMap (ODM) is one of the best open-source solutions available today. In this article, we’ll explore: What Is OpenDroneMap? OpenDroneMap (ODM)
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Understanding the difference between DSM (Digital Surface Model), DTM (Digital Terrain Model), and DEM (Digital Elevation Model) is essential for anyone working in drone mapping, surveying, GIS, construction monitoring, or environmental modelling. Although these terms sound similar, each represents a different type of elevation data and serves a specific purpose. In this guide, we break
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Drone mapping has become one of the most powerful tools for modern businesses. From construction and farming to mining and urban planning, drones now deliver accurate maps, measurements, and insights in a fraction of the time compared to traditional surveying. If you’re new to this technology, here’s a simple guide to understand what drone mapping
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Orthomosaics are one of the most valuable outputs in drone mapping, providing highly accurate, distortion-free aerial images used in surveying, agriculture, construction, disaster assessment, mining, and more. But how exactly are orthomosaics created? In this post, we break down the step-by-step process—from flying the drone to generating a map-ready orthomosaic. 1. Flight Planning The process
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