Photogrammetric Software Suite for UAS

PIEneering, Finland, has released a complete photogrammetric software system, RapidStation suite, for processing digital imagery acquired with Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), aircrafts and helicopters. The software suite covers the entire photogrammetric workflow and has been specifically tuned for challenging UAS projects.

RapidStation includes auto­mated aerial triangula­tion (AAT) along with fully au­tomated generation of very dense point clouds (DSM/DTM) and produc­tion of true-orthos and or­thomosaics.

The software system com­bines ease of use with rigid photogra­metry and ma­chine vision technologies. It is suitable for both professional photo­gram­metrists and GIS producers seeking a good solution for processing their digital im­agery. The highlights of Rap­idStation are high degree of automa­tion, mod­ern GIS-like user interface with power­ful data management tools, extensive quality assurance and re­porting capabilities and comprehensive mod­elling options for aerial tri­angulation. Additionaly, RapidStation includes Semi Global Matching module for 3D modelling that offers a production boost by utilising the pro­cessing power of multiple GPU’s. Batch processing support is also available through­out the software suite.