ArcGIS Reality Studio

Part of the ArcGIS Reality suite of products

Aerial reality mapping at scale

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City and country reality mapping software

 ArcGIS Reality Studio is an advanced photogrammetry product optimized for precision, speed, and simplicity. This scalable solution for city and countrywide reality mapping is an important component of 3D digital twins. Align large collections of images captured by drones and aerial sensors across multiple flights to create highly accurate true orthos, 3D meshes, point clouds, and Gaussian splats. An intuitive map-centric user interface provides seamless workflows for the efficient creation, editing, and quality control of survey-grade products. Easily collaborate and share data within geographic information system (GIS) technology and mapping systems for photorealistic visualization and analysis.

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Create accurate real-world depictions

  • Shorten time to delivery

    Automated, robust, and efficient distributed processing workflows reduce the time it takes to process large imagery collections to create 3D outputs.

  • Automated workflows to scale your work

    Automate the production of geometrically accurate true orthos and photo-realistic textured 3D meshes for entire cities and countries.

  • Gain a competitive edge

    ArcGIS Reality Studio provides the best-in-class image alignment to produce true orthos and 3D meshes with sharp edges and image definition. Outputs are optimized for efficient web streaming to deliver high-quality products.

  • Minimal training required

    Designed with an intuitive user experience and a mapcentric 3D interface, ArcGIS Reality Studio lets you reference your data all in one place. Get started quickly with automated processing workflows to determine the ideal parameters for all processing steps. 

  • Easily deliver products without reformatting

    Outputs created with ArcGIS Reality Studio can immediately be used within the ArcGIS system or third-party mapping systems. Your customers can perform advanced analysis like machine learning or object detection within ArcGIS.

  • Proven algorithms you can trust

    The combined expertise of Esri and nFrames, a leading provider of 3D image reconstruction software and services, has created the most advanced aerial reality mapping solution. Esri provides extensive research and development to continually improve and grow the capabilities of your production tools.

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How it works

Import

Load and manage data from multiple drone or crewed aircraft flights. Use control points and reuse existing measurements. Import polygons to improve results, improve waterbodies, or to set a region of interest. Add lidar to improve completeness and the quality of results in shadow or occluded areas.

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Align

Optimize the relative and absolute orientation of imagery from multiple flights. Measure control points to correctly georeference your results. Reestimate camera parameters if necessary.

Process

Turn large imagery and lidar data collections into high-quality 3D meshes, point clouds, digital surface models, true orthos, and Gaussian splats. Get results fast using distributed processing and automated workflows. Control the resolution of the output rasters and meshes. Track progress on the map.

Imagery dataset provided by ©Bluesky Ltd.

Refine

Iterate on the alignment and reconstruction to deal with problematic datasets. Use statistical insights to fine-tune out-of-the-box results and manage challenging data.

Share

Use the web to efficiently share available results with your organization and clients. Results are provided in open standard formats and are ready for web streaming.

ArcGIS Reality product suite

Explore the software applications that are a part of ArcGIS Reality. Find the reality mapping software that fits the size of your projects and the sensors you work with.

ArcGIS Reality for ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS Reality for ArcGIS Pro

Use this extension to generate large-scale true DSMs, true orthos, DSM meshes, point clouds, and 3D meshes from satellite, aerial, and drone imagery.

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Site Scan for ArcGIS

Site Scan for ArcGIS

Process large volumes of drone imagery faster with cloud-based data processing and create 2D and 3D maps and models that you can quickly share across your organization.

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ArcGIS Drone2Map

ArcGIS Drone2Map

Process drone imagery while offline or in the field. Turn recently collected drone images into 2D and 3D models, even without an internet connection.

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ArcGIS Reality and digital twins

Digital twins are representations of real-world objects and their processes and relationships. With ArcGIS Reality, users create highly accurate 3D meshes, true orthos, elevation models, point clouds, and Gaussian splats to use as an important piece when developing 3D digital twins of natural and built environments. Learn more about Esri’s 3D capabilities and how they relate to a comprehensive digital twin.

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ArcGIS Reality Studio resources

Learn more about ArcGIS Reality Studio. Explore resources such as tutorials, videos, and documentation.

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