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The solution for city and countrywide mapping with aerial imagery

SURE Aerial is specifically designed for aerial image datasets captured with large frame nadir cameras, oblique cameras and hybrid systems with additional LiDAR sensors. Without limitation in image resolution, it empowers the production of 3D Meshes, True Orthophotos, Point Clouds and Digital Surface Models on common workstation hardware and in cluster environments. Simple to setup and operate, SURE Aerial is compliant with mapping industry standards and accessible for web streaming technologies. Connect seamlessly with interfaces such as various Aerotriangulation import options, shapefile definitions and several output formats.

SURE 5.1

Produce sharp and consistent True Orthophotos for all of your project scenarios out of the box with SURE 5.1, including challenging image input containing reflections, moving objects, and other inconsistencies. SURE 5.1 also revolutionizes network processing by leveraging available compute and storage resources more efficiently than ever before, which enables you to deliver your results faster and reduce energy and cost in the office and in the cloud.

Excited to learn more? Visit our What's new in SURE 5.1 documentation

Optimised for large datasets

Fully automatic workflow

Generate tiled DSMs, True Orthophotos and Meshes automatically. No manual seam line editing or expert knowledge required to produce high-quality outputs. 

Region of interest definition

Choose to process the most essential elements of your projects.  Take control of the time and efficiency of your production. Import 2D or 3D shapefiles for waterbodies, areas of interest and surface correction.

Efficient visualization of large datasets

Benefit from optimized level-of-detail and streaming formats for web-visualization (cesium, ESRI slpk, osgb, obj, collada). The free SURE Viewer is included with the upgradable SURE Editor.

Unlimited Scalability

Whether you're working with 2,000 or 20,000 high resolution images, SURE Aerial scales with you and your project needs. 

Cost efficient image acquisition and processing

Choose the image acquisition method that works for your organization. Use oblique images, high quality Nadir images or data provided by hybrid systems with additional LiDAR sensors. Experience highly efficient processing built for handling large datasets on your existing hardware. 

Colorized DSMs

Generate colorized DSMs to represent accurate height differentiation data. 

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Sign-up for a Free 14 day trial of SURE Aerial for non-commercial use and research. From a university or research institution? See if you qualify for an extended non-commercial trial license.

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Full feature list

  • Dense Image Matching
    • Depth information for each pixel with sharp edges
    • Multi-threading and GPU support
  • Colored Point Clouds (las, laz)
  • Digital Surface Models (tif, gtif, tfw)
  • True Orthophotos (tif, gtif, tfw)
  • Textured 2.5D and 3D Meshes (cesium, ESRI slpk, osgb, obj, collada)
  • Global Color Balancing
    • Automatic seam-line leveling and homogeneous blending
  • Point Clouds and True Orthophotos with 8 Bit, 16 Bit and 4 channels
  • All kinds of frame imagery
    • Small, medium and large frame (e.g. >500 megapixels)
    • Close range, UAV, manned aircraft (nadir, oblique)
    • Transfer full image information to deliverables (8/16 Bit RGBI)
  • LiDAR Point Cloud import (las, laz)
  • Elastic Distributed Processing
    • Scale to any size of datasets / timelines
    • Add additional nodes while processing
    • No setup and interactive management of cluster required
    • Attractive license rental packages
  • Completely scriptable and configurable with command line interface
  • Open interfaces
    • Direct orientation import from Trimble Inpho/Match-AT, Leica HxMap, Agisoft Photoscan, Pix4D and more
    • Point Cloud import (las or laz)
    • LiDAR Trajectory import (sbet, sol)
  • Editing & data interaction
    • 2D or 3D shapefiles for waterbodies and surface corrections
    • Region of interest definition for processing and export
    • Mapsheet definition (tiling scheme)
    • Refeed edited or 3rd party Point Clouds to workflow
    • SURE Editor (Mesh editing tools improving Meshes, True Orthos and DSMs)

Example Outputs

Captured nadir and oblique imagery rendered fully automatically using SURE Software to create customized products such as True Orthophotos and Textured 3D Meshes.

Free SURE Editor Viewer: Easily Visualize Meshes

We are happy to provide you with our license-free SURE Editor Viewer to visualize osgb Meshes - 3D and DSM Meshes - from large datasets.

Benefit from...

... creating and saving waypoints during your quality management process.

... displaying and switching between multiple meshes for comfortable comparisons.

... setting fly points for user-friendly video production.

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