A small team of highly trained pilots would fly the drone around the structure, manually operating the joysticks and taking overlapping photos of assets to generate a 3D model. However, because manual ...

Fig. 2 – 3D mine face. With 3DReshaper software and after processing dedicated to close the volume on a base, the model can be printed (on the scale of the printer). Figure 4 is an example of a 3D ...

New software from Autodesk lets you use regular pictures to create 3D models ... The company managed to create a full 3D model of its offices using photographs captured by an unmanned aerial drone.

The Bebop and Disco addresses different markets as they’re fundamentally different drones. The Bebop is Parrot’s quadcopter drone and will now be available with 3D mapping software for $1,099.