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PIX4Dsurvey

Engineered for Accuracy, Designed for Versatile Deployment

PIX4Dsurvey Professional Survey Software Available Across Africa from Aerosmart Africa, Authorised Software Partner.

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PIX4Dsurvey

PIX4Dsurvey solves the problem that sits between photogrammetric processing and formal survey delivery. Processing software produces point clouds, meshes, and orthomosaics dense, visually rich datasets that accurately represent the surveyed environment. But a surveyor's client does not want a point cloud. They want a drawing: boundaries, breaklines, contours, feature codes, and the vectorised CAD deliverable that engineering design, planning submission, and formal survey registration all require.

PIX4Dsurvey is the vectorisation environment where that conversion happens. Surveyors work directly within the point cloud and mesh data, extracting the vector features the deliverable requires road edges, building footprints, kerb lines, boundary features, drainage inverts, utility positions and exporting them as CAD-ready geometry in the formats that engineering and survey workflows consume.

Aerosmart supplies and supports PIX4Dsurvey licences across Africa, with the workflow training that gets survey teams producing formal deliverables from drone-collected data rather than being stuck with rich datasets they cannot convert into what the client is paying for.

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Technical Specifications

Built for Professionals

Feature extraction, output formats, and survey workflow integration at a glance.

Specification
Value
Software Type
Point cloud vectorisation and survey deliverable production
Input Data
Point clouds (LAS/LAZ) · Meshes · Orthomosaics
Source Compatibility
PIX4Dmatic · DJI Terra · Third-party LiDAR
Feature Extraction
Points · Polylines · Polygons · Breaklines
Terrain Products
Contours · TIN surfaces · Breakline-constrained DTM
Point Cloud Classification
Ground · vegetation · structure classification tools
Vectorisation Tools
Snapping · elevation constraint · feature coding
CAD Output
DXF · DWG
GIS Output
SHP · GeoPackage
Survey Output
LandXML · CSV point export
Coordinate Systems
Full CRS library with custom definitions
Corridor Tools
Cross-section extraction · alignment support
Volume Tools
Surface-to-surface volume calculation
Integration
AutoCAD · Civil 3D · ArcGIS · QGIS · Bentley
Vectorisation Workflow

Where Point Clouds Become
Survey Drawings

The core PIX4Dsurvey workflow is the extraction of vector geometry from dense point data. The surveyor navigates the point cloud, identifies the features the deliverable specification requires, and traces them as points, polylines, and polygons that snap accurately to the underlying point cloud elevation.

The result is a vector dataset that carries the accuracy of the original survey data but in the geometric format that CAD and GIS environments consume a road centreline as a 3D polyline rather than a band of points, a building footprint as a closed polygon rather than a cluster of returns, a boundary feature as a coded line ready for import into the cadastral system.

For African survey businesses delivering to engineering consultancies, land administration authorities, mining technical services departments, and infrastructure project managers this vectorisation step is what converts drone survey data into the deliverable format that these clients' internal workflows are built around. Without it, the survey team hands over a dataset the client cannot use.

Terrain Modelling

Contours, Surfaces, and Breakline-Constrained Accuracy

Terrain modelling in PIX4Dsurvey goes beyond automated contour generation from raw point data. Breakline extraction the manual or semi-automated identification of terrain discontinuities like ridge lines, drainage channels, kerbs, and embankment edges constrains the terrain surface to respect these features rather than smoothing across them.

The practical difference is significant. An automatically generated contour set that does not respect breaklines rounds off kerb edges, smooths drainage channels into shallow depressions, and softens embankment crests producing a terrain model that looks plausible but misrepresents exactly the features that engineering design depends on.

Breakline-constrained TIN surfaces produce terrain models that engineering design software consumes directly drainage design against accurate channel geometry, road design against accurate existing surface levels, and earthwork calculation against a terrain surface that represents the actual site rather than a smoothed approximation.

Corridor and Volume Tools

Cross-Sections and Earthwork From the Same Dataset

Cross-Section Extraction

Corridor projects require regular cross-sections along the alignment for design and quantity calculation. PIX4Dsurvey extracts sections at defined intervals along a specified alignment, producing the section geometry that road, rail, and pipeline design workflows require.

Volume Calculation

Surface-to-surface volume computation between a survey surface and a design surface, or between two survey epochs, produces the cut and fill quantities that earthwork payment certification and stockpile inventory both depend on.

Industry Applications

PIX4Dsurvey Applications by Industry

PIX4Dsurvey for cadastral survey and land titling

Cadastral Survey and Land Titling

Boundary feature extraction and vectorisation for formal registration submission across land administration programmes in Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ethiopia producing the coded vector deliverables that cadastral systems ingest.

PIX4Dsurvey for civil engineering and road design

Civil Engineering and Road Design

Existing surface extraction, breakline-constrained terrain modelling, and cross-section generation for road, drainage, and infrastructure design across Africa's expanding civil engineering programme.

PIX4Dsurvey for mining technical services

Mining Technical Services

Pit geometry vectorisation, bench line extraction, stockpile volume computation, and the survey deliverables that mine planning and production reconciliation depend on.

PIX4Dsurvey for utilities and corridor documentation

Utilities and Corridor Documentation

Powerline, pipeline, and telecommunications corridor as-built vectorisation producing the asset position drawings that utility asset management systems require.

PIX4Dsurvey for urban planning and GIS

Urban Planning and GIS

Building footprint extraction, street furniture positioning, and land use boundary vectorisation for municipal GIS systems across African cities building their spatial data infrastructure.

PIX4Dsurvey for construction as-built documentation

Construction As-Built Documentation

Structural feature extraction and as-built drawing production comparing constructed geometry against design intent for project close-out documentation.

WHY BUY THROUGH AEROSMART

Why Buy Through Aerosmart

Why Operators Buy PIX4Dsurvey Through aerosmart

01

Genuine Licences, Full Feature Access

Every PIX4Dsurvey licence is genuine, fully featured, and connected to the official update programme.

02

Licence Activation Across 14+ Countries

Remote licence activation for operators across every African market aerosmart serves.

03

Deliverable Format Consultation

Advice on the output configuration your client's CAD, GIS, or cadastral system requires, ensuring the deliverable imports cleanly rather than requiring rework.

04

Pre-Sale Technical Consultation

Workflow assessment covering how PIX4Dsurvey integrates with your existing DJI Terra or PIX4Dmatic processing pipeline.

05

Post-Sale Support

Dubai-based technical team for vectorisation workflow guidance and export configuration troubleshooting.

06

Training and Onboarding

Vectorisation technique, breakline extraction, terrain modelling, cross-section generation, and CAD export configuration training available remotely and in-person.

07

Competitive Pricing

Contact aerosmart for licence pricing and multi-seat organisational quotes.

Data Security

Enterprise-Grade Data Security, Built In

D-RTK 3 enterprise-grade data security

PIX4Dsurvey operates entirely on local hardware. Survey point clouds, extracted vectors, and produced deliverables remain within the operator's controlled infrastructure. For land administration authorities and government survey departments across African markets where cadastral data carries sovereign sensitivity, local-only processing removes the cloud exposure that hosted alternatives introduce.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions - PIX4Dsurvey

Where can I buy PIX4Dsurvey in Africa?

PIX4Dsurvey licences are available from aerosmart with remote activation across 14+ African countries. Contact our team for pricing and configuration advice.

What is PIX4Dsurvey used for?

PIX4Dsurvey converts point clouds and meshes into CAD-ready vector survey deliverables, extracting boundaries, breaklines, contours, and coded features, and exporting them in DXF, DWG, SHP, LandXML, and GeoPackage formats for engineering, GIS, and cadastral workflows.

Does PIX4Dsurvey work with DJI Terra outputs?

Yes. PIX4Dsurvey imports point clouds produced by DJI Terra, PIX4Dmatic, and third-party LiDAR processing platforms in standard LAS and LAZ formats.

What is the difference between PIX4Dmatic and PIX4Dsurvey?

PIX4Dmatic processes raw imagery into point clouds, orthomosaics, and terrain models. PIX4Dsurvey takes those processed outputs and converts them into vectorised, CAD-ready survey deliverables.

They are sequential stages of the same workflow, not alternatives.

Can PIX4Dsurvey calculate volumes?

Yes. Surface-to-surface volume computation produces cut and fill quantities between a survey surface and a design surface, or between two survey epochs for stockpile and earthwork measurement.

What CAD formats does PIX4Dsurvey export?

DXF and DWG for CAD workflows, SHP and GeoPackage for GIS, and LandXML and CSV for survey data exchange, covering AutoCAD, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, QGIS, and Bentley platform requirements.

Does PIX4Dsurvey support breakline extraction?

Yes. Breakline extraction constrains terrain surfaces to respect ridges, channels, kerbs, and embankment edges, producing terrain models that engineering design software consumes without the smoothing errors that unconstrained interpolation introduces.

What is the price of PIX4Dsurvey?

Licence pricing varies by tier and seat count. Contact aerosmart at Sales@aerosmartglobal.com for an accurate quote.

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