Virtual Surveyor has significantly reorganized its smart drone surveying software plans with the addition of the Productivity Tools suite to the Ridge plan.
Previously available only in the highest-level subscription package, the Productivity Tools enhance the speed of creating survey products from UAV-derived images and LiDAR data. Virtual Surveyor software provides users an end-to-end workflow to conduct 3D surveys from drone imagery offered under progressive subscription plans: Valley (Free), Ridge, and Peak.
Now that Productivity Tools have been incorporated into Ridge, the primary differentiator between the two paid plans is the time component. Ridge creates survey products from a single drone flight representing one moment in time. The high-level Peak, on the other hand, generates and analyzes survey products from two or more drone flights to show change over time, such as cut-and-fill calculations and elevation profile differences.
“The addition of Productivity Tools to the Ridge plan greatly accelerates the workflow to generate snapshot survey products such as lightweight CAD models or stockpile inventories,” said Tom Op ‘t Eyndt, Virtual Surveyor CEO. “For our Ridge customers, it’s like getting tools that allow them to work significantly faster for the same price.”
Current subscribers to Virtual Surveyor Ridge edition will see their software updated automatically to Version 9.7 with the Productivity Tools suite.