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1. Pix4D
Innovating & Supporting
Innovation
Lorenzo Martelletti
Sales & Marketing Director
sUSB Expo, San Francisco, April 30, 2015

2. Pix4
D
• Software development company
• Pix4Dmapper software: leading professional
mapping solution for UAV, Aerial and Ground
Imagery
• Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland
• Offices in San Francisco and Shanghai
• 40 people
• Thousands of software licenses delivered
globally

3. Pix4D in the Professional UAV Market
• Serving professional
surveyors, agronomists,
engineers,
photogrammetrists
• Serving leading
professional mapping
UAV manufacturers on
every continent

4. Professional-Grade Sensors & Avionics
• Solution for camera rigs: speed, robustness
• Multi-spectral UAV camera arrays
• Aerial and ground oblique camera arrays
• Compatibility with leading autopilots
• Integration with mapping services

5. From Drone to Tractor
• New Index calculator
• New workflow, co-developed with senseFly
• Radiometric calibration UI
• Regions management
• Index calculation (NDVI)
• Classes with semantics (Interpretation)
• Shapefile map export
Fly + Process + Scout + Refine & Interpret + Output to Tractor

6. Pix4Dmapper Mosaic for 3D Robotics Platforms
X8-M Aero-M
• 3D Robotics Edition
• For mapping professionals
• Orthomosaics output
• Linear/surface measurements
• Pro 3DR Edition upgrade available
• Sold in 3DR store

7. Emergence of Prosumer Drones
• Platforms addressing video professionals & enthusiasts
• Photogrammetry flight plan + platform + photogrammetry software
Professional surveying tool

8. Prosumer and Professional UAVs in Mapping
Prosumer Systems
• Ease-of-use
• Cost
• Software enables accurate mapping
Professional Systems
• Highly accurate measurements
• Application-specific design (sensors + sw)
• Flight performance (survey area)
• Ruggedness
• Support
Complementarity
© senseFly

9. Pix4Dmapper Capture App
• Proper overlapping
• Precise geotagging
• Quick 3D Preview on the Phone
• Easy capture, easy mapping, fast response
• Now for DJI platforms, coming soon: Bebop &
Solo

10. Pix4Dmapper Mesh for DJI Platforms
• DJI Edition
• For
• Communication professionals
• Real estate/roofing professionals
• Landscape architects
• 3D Mesh output
• Linear & surface measurements
• Sold in DJI store (yearly rental)

11. Desktop + Cloud Workflow
Desktop required for reliability, assessment, editing

12. Pix4D Enterprise Solutions
• Pix4Dmapper for online & centralized data processing
• Linux/Windows Servers (AWS)
• Command line + UI support
• Per CPU-day tariff
• Flexibility to high data peaks
• Scalability with growing volumes
Pilot program enrollment, May-Aug 2015 (limited)

13. Conclusion
• Serving UAV professional surveying and farming
industry
• Enabling prosumer drones to do professional mapping
with desktop and cloud solutions
• At the side of new 3D modelling professionals in an
expanding UAV industry
• Adapting the offering to enterprises with growing needs

14. Thank you
sUSB Expo, San Francisco, Apri
Lorenzo Martelletti
Sales & Marketing Director
lorenzo@pix4d.com