Gatewing, manufacturer of the X100 unmanned aerial system (UAS) for mapping and surveying, has released Gatewing Stretchout, image processing for converting X100 image data to accurate orthophotos and DSMs.
Stretchout begins the process by geotagging your images and then processes them using automatic aerial triangulation. This is followed by a bundle block adjustment, which calculates camera interior orientation as well as position and attitude of each camera station.
You can easily integrate these products into your workflow, be it GIS, CAD or other mapping, design or visualization systems. Stretchout is easy to use, and like the X100, doesn’t require a high amount of photogrammetry or photogrammetric data processing knowledge.
The software uses vision technology that was originally developed for creating highly accurate digital models of objects such as human organs, machine parts and archaeological finds using images taken with high overlap but with no necessity for measuring the accurate position and altitude of the camera for each exposure.
As an alternative to the desktop solution, Gatewing introduces Gatewing Cloud, which lets you upload your images to Gatewing’s cloud server; doing the processing for you with project-specific pricing based on your requirements. After a few hours, you can download your georeferenced orthophotos and DSMs from the cloud server and request feedback on results.
For more information, visit www.gatewing.com/products/stretchout
