Spotscale 3D city model.

Spotscale 3D city model.

Spotscale has produced (apparently) the world’s largest 3D city model.

The model is of 40 city blocks in a central part of Norrköping, Sweden. Their multi-copter has been flying along every street, façade and roof to photograph all angles possible in a total of 140.000 images in 24-megapixel resolution. Then  the imagery is then uploaded to Spotscale cloud processing, where computer vision algorithms calculate an extremely large and detailed 3D model.

Ludvig Emgård, founder and CEO of Spotscale mentioned that to achieve this model, they been pushing the limits of UAS capture, processing methodology and visualisation.

Gary Mortimer

Founder and Editor of sUAS News | Gary Mortimer has been a commercial balloon pilot for 25 years and also flies full-size helicopters. Prior to that, he made tea and coffee in air traffic control towers across the UK as a member of the Royal Air Force.