Drone software can provide extra control and assistance to fly your quadcopter. When you think about 3D mapping with drones, you can get software for your help.

Several mapping companies offer a free version of their software to try first before making a purchase. 3D mapping aka photogrammetry mapping allows you to make measurements from different photographs.

You will get a 3D drawing, a 3D model or a 3D map of land mass or real word objects. Photogrammetry has two types of close range and aerial.

• Aerial photogrammetry is a procedure of using an aircraft or drone to produce aerial photography that can be mapped digitally or turned into 3D models.
• Close range photogrammetry allows you to capture images with a handheld camera or mounted camera (to tripods). This method is not suitable to generate topographic maps, but you can create 3D models of small objects.

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DroneDeploy Mapping Mobile App

A leading cloud platform helps you in 3D modeling and drone mapping. With this mobile app, you can operate your drone to create collaborating models and maps.

This software is equally useful for professionals and beginners who like this photogrammetry software. The app works with several DJI drones like Mavic Pro, Inspire 1, Phantom 3 and 4, different models of Matric. The software allows you to measure the volume, area, and distance in a map. You can share messages, annotations, and maps.

DroneDeploy 3D Map Enterprise Software

With this fully featured platform, you can enable operations of a drone. The software allows you to manage different drones in a team. Every drone creates 3D photogrammetry maps. The data is processed into 3D maps in the cloud ensure its availability for the whole team.

With this software, you can manage flights, assign to capable pilots, and maintain flight logs. The unlimited cloud-based map storage and processing can help you. It is easy to connect and share maps with other tools through APIs, exports and App market.

Pix4D Mapper Software

Pix4D Mapper software for Photogrammetry permits you to generate 3D maps and models for images. The software helps you to turn your photos on precise and geo-referenced 3D models and 2D maps.

The maps complement a range of software and applications. The software uses photos to generate a digital surface, terrain models and point clouds, textured models and orthomosaics.

The mapper can densified point cloud and rebuild the model. The color information and X, Y, Z position is stored for every point of Densified Point Cloud. Terrain model and digital surface help you to get elevation value of every pixel. With thermography, you can create a radiometrically accurate map.

Index maps (NDRE, NDVI) work well with different indices. These are good for agriculture drones. With its volume calculation feature, you can calculate accurate volume on the representation of stockpiles.