Aerial mapping software that hands GIS teams clean, georeferenced layers
Fly the area, upload the aerial imagery in the browser, and get back orthomosaics, elevation rasters, vectors and point clouds in the coordinate system your GIS already uses. No reprojection clean-up, no screenshots in email.
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From aerial imagery to GIS layers
A drone flight is a pile of overlapping photos until it is processed into layers a GIS can use. Dronemapping produces a consistent set for every project, each one aligned to the others.
- Orthomosaic: the true to scale image base map, as GeoTIFF
- Digital surface model and digital terrain model: elevation rasters, as GeoTIFF
- Contours: vector lines with elevation attributes, as SHP or DXF (Team and above)
- Point cloud: LAS or LAZ for classification and analysis (Team and above)
- Measurements: areas, lengths and volumes as CSV, or as KML for Google Earth
The same layers stream in the browser viewer as map tiles over a satellite or street basemap, so non-GIS colleagues see the result without opening a desktop tool. How the image base map is built is covered on orthomosaic software, and the reconstruction behind every layer on photogrammetry software.
Coordinate reference systems handled at the source
Most GIS pain with drone data is a projection problem. Outputs arrive in a different system from the rest of the project, the layer lands in the wrong place, and someone spends an hour reprojecting.
In Dronemapping you set the project coordinate system by EPSG code before processing. Typical choices:
| Use | Example system | EPSG |
|---|---|---|
| Global geographic | WGS 84 | 4326 |
| Web maps | WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator | 3857 |
| Regional projects in meters | UTM zone, for example NAD83 / UTM zone 15N | 26915 |
| US survey and engineering work | A NAD83 State Plane zone in US survey feet | per zone |
Rasters, vectors and point clouds all come out in that system, so they overlay each other and your existing layers without adjustment. For control-based projects with checkpoints and an accuracy report, see drone survey software.
Fits the GIS and CAD tools you already run
- QGIS and ArcGIS Pro: drag in the GeoTIFF orthomosaic and elevation rasters, add contours as SHP
- CAD and civil design: DXF contours and a GeoTIFF underlay
- Google Earth: KML of the orthomosaic footprint and measurements
- Point cloud tools: LAS or LAZ for classification, sections and analysis
On Business, the API and webhooks let a GIS team upload datasets and pull finished layers into its own pipeline, for example into a map server that refreshes when a new flight is processed.
Change over time and beyond visible light
Aerial mapping is often about the same area flown again and again. On Business, the progress timeline lines up flights of the same site, and change detection highlights where the surface moved between two dates.
Multispectral cameras add bands the eye cannot see. Business processes NDVI and NDRE indices and computes zonal statistics per field or management zone, which is the core of agriculture drone software work for agronomists and growers.
Governance for shared GIS data
- Project roles for admin, editor and viewer on Business
- Audit log of downloads and shares
- SSO with SAML, Google Workspace or Microsoft Entra ID, SCIM and custom retention rules on Enterprise
- Choice of US or EU data region on Enterprise
- Export originals and every output at any time, on every plan
See the data before the flight is processed
The demo computes areas, volumes and elevation profiles on a real elevation surface, and reads the metadata of your own photos to show GSD, footprint and coverage. Nothing is uploaded.
The plan that fits a GIS team
Business at $599 per month or $5,990 per year is built for GIS departments: 50,000 processed images a month, four jobs in parallel on a priority queue, API and webhooks, change detection, multispectral indices, 25 seats with roles and 2 TB of storage. Smaller mapping programmes start on Starter at $99 per month. Every plan is on drone mapping pricing, and the processing steps are on drone data processing.
Aerial mapping software FAQ
Yes. Set the project system by EPSG code before processing, and every raster, vector and point cloud is produced in it.
Any software that reads GeoTIFF, SHP, DXF, KML, CSV and LAS or LAZ, including QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, CAD platforms and point cloud tools.
Yes, on Business and Enterprise. Upload datasets, check processing status and download results, with webhooks when a job finishes.
Yes, as long as the photos are geotagged JPEGs with enough overlap. Mixed cameras are calibrated separately during processing.
Enterprise customers choose a US or EU data region. On every plan you can export your originals and outputs at any time.
Turn your next flight into GIS-ready layers
Orthomosaic, elevation, contours and point cloud in your coordinate system, from one upload.