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#PIX4D VS PHOTOSCAN SOFTWARE#
#PIX4D VS PHOTOSCAN LICENSE#
#PIX4D VS PHOTOSCAN PROFESSIONAL#
#PIX4D VS PHOTOSCAN FREE#

We will assume 2 servers are run full-time, since the license activation has to be maintained. We will use the r5.2xlarge AWS EC2 On-demand instance as reference for the server. Agisoft MetashapeĪgisoft Metashape allows running the Node-locked License on a cloud server provided a few conditions are met. Therefore we will not include Pix4D Cloud Deployment in our calculations. The pricing for Enterprise Server License is not disclosed publicly by Pix4D. Pix4D requires the users to purchase an Enterprise Server License to be able to run Pix4D in the cloud. Monthly Processing Time: 48 x 20 / 2= 480 hours, or 20 days Cost Model 2: Perpetual License on Cloud Pix4D Mapper Processing Time: 48 x 20 / 2 = 480 hours, or 20 days WebODM

#PIX4D VS PHOTOSCAN PROFESSIONAL#

License cost for Professional Edition is $3,499. We will use Professional Edition of Agisoft Metashape instead of the Standard Edition since Standard Edition does not support GCPs, DSM/DTM etc. Processing Time: 48 x 20 / 2 = 480 hours, or 20 days Agisoft Metashape We would need 2 licenses, 1 for each desktop. Pix4D Mapper’s Perpetual License comes at $4,990. We would need 2 desktops to keep the monthly processing time under 30 days.

Cloud storage and data transfer: Storage and data transfer is quite cheap on the cloud and would not make a significant difference to our calculations.Ĭomparison Cost Model 1: Perpetual License on Desktop.

Electricity: This is completely dependent on the location so we will ignore this.

We will ignore the following costs in our analysis:

On 1 desktop, the batches can only be processed serially, i.e., one after the other.

#PIX4D VS PHOTOSCAN SOFTWARE#

Although processing time will vary with each software and the specified parameters, for ease of calculation, we will assume that it will take 48 hours to process 2,500 images on a desktop with 64GB RAM and an appropriate number of cores.We’ll take this Dell XPS CPU as a reference to set our cost of acquiring a desktop with 64GB RAM at $2,400. RequirementsĪ minimum RAM of 64GB will be required on the desktop or a cloud server in order to process 1 set of 2,500 images. We will now calculate the cost to process this dataset to produce orthomosaics in different software setups. Let’s assume we get 20 sets of images, each set consisting of 2,500 images. It will generate around 50,000 images (assume a DJI Camera, 4000×3000 image resolution, 400 feet flight altitude with 60% overlap and 2 inch/pixel GSD). Let’s say our monthly surveyed area is 25,000 hectare (250 sq.km.). In order to analyze these parameters we are going to take a test scenario. You deploy WebODM on a cloud service such as AWS or Google Cloud and process your datasets on the cloud.Īll these cost models have their own implications on number of images that can be processed, time to process and how much it will cost. Therefore there is now one more cost model available to us:Ħ. It is able to generate photogrammetric outputs on par with the other softwares mentioned above.

#PIX4D VS PHOTOSCAN FREE#

For those who don’t know, WebODM is a free and open-source drone mapping software. Maps Made Easyīut now things are changing with the advent of an open-source solution, WebODM. Pay a pay-per-use fee for a cloud-based processing service, ex. Pay a subscription fee for a cloud-based processing service, ex. Pay a subscription fee for a desktop-bound license, ex. Pix4D Mapper Enterprise Server License, Agisoft Metashapeģ. Pay one-time for a perpetual license and deploy it in cloud, ex. perpetual licenses for Pix4D Mapper, Agisoft MetashapeĢ. Pay one-time for a perpetual desktop-bound license, ex. Traditionally, there have been five cost models when it came to drone mapping software:ġ.