The use of UAS for industrial inspections has grown significantly in the last few years, with companies like Flyability releasing drones made just to fly indoors and conduct inspections, replacing the need for inspectors to enter hazardous spaces inside assets like boilers and pressure vessels.īut all that visual data collected during inspection flights needs to be managed, stored, and processed-and that’s where Pix4D’s new inspection tools come in. Pix4Dscan and Pix4Dinspect-New Tools for Industrial InspectionsĪccording to Pix4D, Pix4Dscan is a tool that can be combined with Pix4Dinspect to create an end-to-end solution for industrial inspections and asset management.
Pix4Dmapper 4.5 can be downloaded here on the Pix4D website. It speeds up point cloud generation and image calibration by an average of 20% for each of these tasks-that’s a lot of time saved. The main highlight here, as with Pix4Dsurvey and Pix4Dmatic, is that version 4.5 can save you time. Pix4Dmapper 4.5Īs if all these new tools weren’t enough, Pix4D has also rolled out version 4.5 of its classic Pix4Dmapper. Learn more about the Pix4Dmatic beta program here on the Pix4D website. Pix4Dmatic is not yet for sale but Pix4D is accepting applications for its Pix4Dmatic beta program.
Pix4DmaticĪccording to Pix4D, Pix4Dmatic is a new photogrammetry software product that will “enable accurate drone mapping on a new scale.” Pix4Dsurvey is for sale right now at a promotional price of $130/month. Visualization of an Image Being Vectorized Expand use cases and possibilities for surveying and mapping professionals.Use points, polylines, polygons, and catenary curves to vectorize projects (to “vectorize” is to turn an images into points and paths-see the image below for an example).Work with more than one point cloud file at once.
Work with Pix4Dmapper and LiDAR point cloud data.Significantly reduce overall surveying time.The software takes point cloud data and turns it into CAD-ready formats, allowing surveyors to not only create detailed maps with raw visual data but then, if needed, to manipulate that data. Pix4Dsurvey is a tool for surveyors and mappers that bridges the gap between digital photogrammetry and CAD. Pix4Dsurvey and Pix4Dmatic represent the next step in photogrammetry, addressing major challenges in the geospatial industry. The main things the tools were created to do is save surveyors and mappers time-lots and lots of it-without sacrificing quality and exactitude in the data produced. According to Pix4D, both of these tools were created to “address major challenges faced by those who work in the geospatial industry.” Pix4Dsurvey and Pix4Dmatic are the newest iteration in this effort.
Photogrammetry is the science of using images to map and measure distances.Īlthough computational photogrammetry has been around since the 1980s, the increasing availability of drone technology has created an increase in the need to process visual data captured by drones, which in turn has helped push the development of photogrammetry software forward. Pix4Dsurvey and Pix4Dmatic-Next Generation Photogrammetry With these new releases, the drone software company is making an ambitious step into new territory, clearly setting its sights on dominating software that supports industrial drone applications.īig picture, Pix4D is moving toward being an end-to-end software provider for those working with drones in inspections, surveying, and mapping. Pix4D’s mapping software has made it a household name in the drone industry. Swiss-based Pix4D just released four new tools-Pix4Dsurvey, Pix4Dmatic, Pix4Dinspect, and Pix4Dscan.