![]() The company wants to be a cloud-based operating system (OS) that could be used for any drone hardware. ![]() Unlike competitors that often provide drone hardware and software on the top of it, DroneDeploy is strongly focused on the software-side, and it aims high. Pix4D is another competitor, although, at a higher price point, that has been a market leader to date for aerial mapping and analysis. They’ve started to build their own cloud-based software, and today they are one of the leading platforms that enables creating cartometric orthophotomaps, 3D point cloud models and data analytics from any drone.Ĭompeting software platforms include PrecisionHawk’s PrecisionMapper platform, which has historically been positioned to the enterprise user for advanced geospatial analysis, but recently launched a free version for the professional surveyor that includes 2D and 3D maps as well as algorithms that are compatible with visual data such as volumetrics and visual NDVI. ![]() ![]() They were working on a project related to using UAVs to fight poaching, and they’ve realized that there were plenty of drones on the market but a lack of data processing software that would enable non-technical people to use drones as a survey-grade tool. DroneDeploy is a drone software start-up funded in 2013 by three college friends from South Africa – Mike Winn (CEO), Jono Millin (CPO) and Nicholas Pilkington (CTO). ![]()
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