Drone mapping outputs

Before a job starts, you pick what it should produce. Six outputs are available, each shown as a card with a preview and its download format.

The six outputs

• Orthomosaic map GeoTIFF A georeferenced aerial map. Marked Recommended, and the one to pick if you are unsure.
• Digital Surface Model (DSM) GeoTIFF Surface height, including buildings and vegetation.
• Digital Terrain Model (DTM) GeoTIFF Bare ground height, with objects filtered out.
• 3D point cloud LAZ The site as millions of coloured 3D points.
• NDVI vegetation map GeoTIFF A vegetation health index map. Needs multispectral imagery and a Pro plan.
• Thermal map GeoTIFF A surface temperature map. Needs radiometric imagery and a Pro plan.

Cards you cannot select

If the quality check does not find a matching sensor in your images, the NDVI and thermal cards stay disabled and are labelled Camera not recognised. This is not a setting you can override: the data simply is not in the files. See image requirements.

Choosing

• Working with heights? DSM and DTM are separate outputs, so select both if you want to compare them.
• Need volumes? Volume measurement in the viewer is computed from the DSM, so select it.
• Mixed sets are fine. RGB and multispectral or thermal images can go into one project, and each sensor is processed into its own layer.
• More outputs means a longer job, since each is generated from the same reconstruction.

Tip

Select everything you might need in one go. A project can only be reprocessed once, and only while the raw images are still stored.

You also set a quality level, which controls the resolution of the result.