GroundTruth, in active build

A drone flight is enough to rebuild your whole site in 3D

The overlapping photos from one flight over a site carry enough information to reconstruct the entire scene as a full 3D model. Fly through it on your screen, measure stockpiles, check roof lines, and drop it on a map with real coordinates. It works with an ordinary camera drone: the heavy lifting is maths and GPU time, not exotic hardware.

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By Eyona Software Development, Cape Town, South Africa.

The mechanism

Photos in, a 3D scene out

No laser scanners, no special rigs. The trick is that dozens of photos of the same place, taken from different angles, already describe its shape.

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Fly the site once

An ordinary camera drone flies a simple pattern over the site, taking photos that overlap each other. Each point on the ground appears in many photos, each time from a slightly different angle.

02

The maths does the digging

Photogrammetry works out where the camera was for every shot, then triangulates millions of points across the images. Gaussian splatting turns that into a scene you can move through smoothly, from any angle.

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GPU time, not hardware

The reconstruction is heavy compute: hours of GPU work per site. That is the part that used to make this a specialist service. It is also the part that can be moved to the cloud.

What you can do with it

A site you can walk through from your desk

Once the model exists, the site stops being a folder of photos and becomes a place.

Fly through it

Move through the model like a game level: orbit a building, drop to ground level, look under a roof overhang. Every viewpoint you did not think to photograph is still there.

Measure things

Distances, areas and volumes come straight off the model. Size a stockpile, check a roof line, measure a boundary, without going back to site with a tape.

Put it on the map

The model is georeferenced, so it sits on the real map at real coordinates. Line it up against boundaries, plans, or last month's flight of the same site.

Share the site, not a slideshow

Send a link instead of a photo dump. The person on the other end explores the same model you do, and sees the site as it actually stands.

GroundTruth

The heavy lifting moves to the cloud

GroundTruth is Eyona Software Development's platform for exactly this. You upload the photos from your flight, choose the output you want, and get back a model you can walk through, measure, and place on the map. The GPUs, the pipelines and the processing queue are our problem, not yours.

Priced per job.

1

Upload your photos

The raw photos from your drone flight, straight from the card.

2

Choose the output

A fly-through model, a measurable reconstruction, a map-placed scene, or all of them.

3

Get your model back

Explore it in the browser, take measurements, and share it with a link.

Add-on module

Solar plant inspection

Solar PV inspection is available as an add-on module on the same flights. The module maps your array from the air and flags panel-level faults and soiling from thermal and RGB imagery. If you run a solar plant and want this on your site, mention it when you email us.

Where it stands

GroundTruth is in active build

We are building the platform right now, and we would rather talk to the people who will use it than guess. If you have sites to fly, stockpiles to measure, or roofs to check, tell us what you would point it at. Early access conversations are open.