Topcon partnership for photogrammetry

Topcon Positioning is establishing a new partnership for photogrammetry technology. The deal has been struck with digital photogrammetric solution provider Agisoft. This move will further expand the Topcon portfolio of solutions for mass data collection (MDC). Agisoft is a leader in the processing of digital imagery for generating high-accuracy 3D spatial data using photogrammetric and computer vision techniques. Topcon will provide the Agisoft Photogrammetric Kit for Topcon – Professional Edition software
December 7, 2015 Read time: 1 min
342 Topcon Positioning is establishing a new partnership for photogrammetry technology. The deal has been struck with digital photogrammetric solution provider Agisoft. This move will further expand the Topcon portfolio of solutions for mass data collection (MDC).

Agisoft is a leader in the processing of digital imagery for generating high-accuracy 3D spatial data using photogrammetric and computer vision techniques. Topcon will provide the Agisoft Photogrammetric Kit for Topcon – Professional Edition software for post-processing of data collected using the Falcon 8 and Sirius Pro unmanned aerial systems (UAS).

Features include photogrammetric triangulation, dense point-cloud editing and classification, digital terrain or surface model export to a variety of formats including georeferenced orthomosiac production (including GeoTIFF and KML export), multi-spectral imagery processing, 3D model generation and texturing, as well as full measurement analysis tools.
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