SenseFly's software integration with Trimble optimizes UAS mapping workflow for geospatial professionals

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SenseFly has announced a new software integration with Trimble that optimizes the UAS mapping workflow for geospatial professionals, ultimately ensuring the smoothest possible end-to-end mapping UAS workflow.

Within their drone's recently launched eMotion 3.5 software, senseFly operators can now transform a senseFly S.O.D.A. camera’s georeferenced imagery into an “automatically-collated project (in .jxl format).”

This allows for the simple, one-click import of UAS imagery into the Trimble Business Center Aerial Photogrammetry module, without having to manually create a project and organize images. 

“Making work easier and more efficient for geospatial professionals is the goal that drives every solution we develop,” says Jean-Christophe Zufferey, senseFly’s Co-Founder and CEO.

“Therefore, we are excited to collaborate with Trimble on more tightly integrating our solutions, since enhancements such as this new eMotion-to-Trimble Business Center workflow do exactly that, ensuring that the transition from data collection to acting upon this data is as seamless as possible.”

The first camera to be built for professional UAS photogrammetry work, the senseFly S.O.D.A. is a 1-inch, 20-megapixel RGB camera that captures extremely sharp aerial images, across a range of light conditions, which allows senseFly fixed-wing UAS operators to produce “detailed, vivid orthomosaics and ultra-accurate 3D digital surface models.”

The camera is compatible with most senseFly fixed-wing mapping UAS, including the company’s eBee Plus.

Along with producing powerful photogrammetric deliverables, Trimble Business Center also allows surveyors and other geospatial professionals to combine aerial photography with data collected from GNSS receivers, total stations, 3D laser scanners and more, for a “complete field-to-finish workflow.”

By easily combining imagery from UAS with ground-based survey data, users can “visualize their project from both aerial and terrestrial perspectives, measure points within the images and create 3D models of the infrastructure and terrain.”

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