A central hub to manage drone fleets, automate data collection and streamline analysis
Esri Site Scan for ArcGIS is a comprehensive data acquisition and cloud processing platform, especially suited to the AEC industry.
This cloud-based software suite provides an end-to-end drone mapping workflow, comprising drone flight planning, fleet management, image processing, and data analysis capabilities.
Drones have become an important tool for mapping and surveying across a range of industries, helping to collect accurate data quicker and safer than traditional methods.
Esri Site Scan facilitates this process by providing a complete solution to maximise drone data collection and analysis, and to improve site management.
Site Scan for ArcGIS can also be used in conjunction with other software platforms in the Esri ecosystem. For instance, publish drone maps to ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, and Autodesk BIM 360.
Key features include:
Comprehensive oversights - all in one place.
Esri Site Scan streamlines the process of deploying drones and digitising your job site.
An all-in-one software solution, Site Scan provides a central hub for project management, drone missions, data collection, and analysis.
This provides a complete platform for acquiring and processing drone imagery, working with resulting data products and managing drone assets.
Drones enable AEC professionals to digitise their job sites.
Increase efficiency by building and sharing 3D flight plans with your drone team.
To increase flight safety and quality data capture, overlay 2D and 3D data from ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise.
Manage data in the field and upload to cloud.
Site Scan for ArcGIS is a scalable cloud environment.
Process unlimited amounts of drone flight data into 2D and 3D outputs.
Automatic ground control point detection ensures high accuracy.
Maps and models enable easy analysis and measurements through a web browser.
Data is crucial for decision-making and progress reports.
This information can be quickly shared with stakeholders and viewed remotely.
Use ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise to share reports, maps, and 3D models
Or collect and process files within Autodesk BIM 360.
Keep tabs on all aspects of your drone programme - in one place.
Drone fleet management allows managers to track flights, hardware, and pilot flight logs.
Create preflight checklists for your drone teams and keep responses in the cloud.
Drone fleet management helps operations run safely and efficiently.
Start and scale survey operations.
Learn more about Esri Site Scan
Site Scan for ArcGIS consists of two applications:
• Site Scan Flight Planning is a flight planning and control application for drone operators that runs on iOS (iPad). The app is integrated with the ArcGIS platform and allows users to plan automated flights in 2D or 3D, and allows the user to control the drone in flight.
• Site Scan Manager is a web-based application for processing, managing, and performing analysis on drone imagery. The app also includes an administrative dashboard for managing users and project permissions, available to users with administrator privileges.
There are currently three license types:
Viewer license: See project data in Site Scan Manager and use the measurement tools. No edits or changes can be made.
Access license: Access full functionality of Site Scan Manager in assigned projects, including creating and persisting measurements, processing existing data and downloading processed outputs. Create a drone flight plan in Site Scan Manager. However, you are not able to fly a drone with Site Scan Flight Planning. Administrator functions, such as User Management and Fleet Management, require this license type.
Operator license: In addition to the capabilities of an Access license, these users are able to fly a drone using Site Scan Flight Planning and upload images for processing.
Images must be geotagged JPEG files. You can process thermal data, but multispectral imagery is not supported (yet!). Video is also not supported.
Using ground control points (GCPs), accuracy of 1 cm/ 0.2 inches or better can be achieved vertically and horizontally. Accuracy can be validated using the “Checkpoint” Site Scan feature.
The output data products from a drone flight (the orthomosaic, DTM, DSM, point cloud, and textured mesh) are stored in the cloud, and can be viewed in Site Scan Manager. They can also be published to ArcGIS Online and shared within your organisation or with the public.
Site Scan for ArcGIS includes unlimited processing and unlimited drone data storage. ArcGIS credits are only consumed when data is published to ArcGIS Online.
This can vary, but generally, it takes about one hour per 150–200 images processed to received processed outputs.
No. Like Site Scan Manager, Drone2Map allows you to create 2D and 3D image products from drone imagery.
Site Scan can be purchased and deployed independently of other Esri products, but many organisations use other GIS capabilities from Esri, so it makes sense to purchase Site Scan as part of a bundle. ArcGIS Drone Collections includes four different bundles of drone-related software products from Esri that address the needs of different organisations—small or large, processing data locally or in the cloud.
